That certainly played into. Poor performance on both sides of the ball. vols gave up 49 on defense so whats that saying? pretty poor performance there as well. Where ALABAMA lost the game was by not effecting the last set of downs on offense IMHO. ALABAMA had the chance to stuff it down range and or get the field goal kicker closer so he would have had a better chance and failed. The rest as they say is history. As someone pointed out above the season is over and Saban will have time to reflect on this and make the adjustments. He is the goat.. he will be recruiting at the highest level and will no doubt have one of the highest recruiting classes (as usual). Wait for it. See you on the 50.