Roydell Williams rushed for 129 yards and a landing, serving to third-string quarterback Ty Simpson and No. 10 Alabama shrug off a gradual begin and beat South Florida 17-3 on Saturday.
The Crimson Tide (2-1) rebounded from a 10-point loss to Texas, bettering to 14-1 in video games following a regular-season loss since 2008.
To do it, although, Alabama needed to overcome inconsistent quarterback play and several other pricey errors that stored USF (1-2) within the recreation. The Bulls led 3-0 when lightning delayed play for 55 minutes within the second quarter, and it was 3-3 at halftime.
“The protection did an excellent job of solely giving up three factors and that was after a turnover gave them good area place,” Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban stated. “So our guys performed nicely and pressured the quarterback nicely … stored him from making a whole lot of explosive performs.”
Notre Dame switch Tyler Buchner began at quarterback for Alabama instead of Jalen Milroe, a duel-threat redshirt sophomore who misplaced his grip on the No. 1 job after the offense sputtered within the earlier week’s 34-24 loss.
Buchner wasn’t any more practical, finishing simply 5 of 14 passes for 34 yards earlier than coach Nick Saban turned to Simpson when linebacker Dallas Turner compelled a USF fumble to arrange Alabama on the Bulls 25 after the climate delay.
Simpson turned the turnover into Will Reichard’s 30-yard area objective that made it 3-3. He lastly acquired the Crimson Tide ultimately zone, utilizing a 45-yard completion to C.J. Dippre to gasoline a six-play, 84-yard drive that Roydell Williams completed with a 1-yard TD run for a 10-3 lead with 4:35 remaining within the third quarter.
“I do know you are going to ask in regards to the quarterbacks, however we will consider (them) on how they performed as we speak and consider Jalen Milroe on how he performed (in two begins),” Saban stated. “We’ll determine this week who offers us the most effective alternative to achieve success as an offensive workforce, and that is the best way we’ll go.”
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Alabama damage itself early, with Kool-Assist McKinstry’s dropping a fumble on a first-quarter punt return to arrange John Cannon’s 44-yard area objective for USF and Jeremiah Alexander’s holding penalty that worn out what would have been Terrion Arnold’s 100-yard return for a TD on the following kickoff.
Simpson completed 5 of 9 passing for 73 yards with out an interception, capping the victory with a 1-yard TD run within the closing minutes. Alabama amassed 203 yards on the bottom, with Jase McClellan gaining 70 of his 74 yards within the first half.
“I do know we have the SEC (convention play) developing subsequent week and clearly we have a whole lot of issues to repair and we’ll work on it,” Saban stated. “We have had 4 touchdowns this season negated by penalties. A kickoff return as we speak, a landing run as we speak and two final week. We have to repair all these issues.”
Byrum Brown accomplished 14 of 28 passes for 87 yards and one interception for USF. He additionally ran for a team-leading 97 yards on 23 makes an attempt because the Bulls gained 177 on the bottom.
USF’s lone scoring drive coated 4 yards.
“There are not any ethical victories. Valiant efforts are for losers. Ethical victories are for losers,” USF coach Alex Golesh stated.
“That is what losers say: `Winners win,'” Golesh added. “So, there are not any ethical victories, there are not any valiant efforts, there are not any something, We performed successful soccer on protection, we performed nicely sufficient (defensively) to win that soccer recreation.”
The takeaway
It wasn’t fairly, however Alabama achieved the anticipated in extending its spectacular streak of not dropping consecutive common season video games since 2008. The one back-to-back defeats over that stretch got here when the Crimson Tide misplaced to Auburn within the 2013 regular-season finale after which fell to Oklahoma within the 2014 Sugar Bowl.
USF, rebuilding beneath first-year coach Alex Golesh after going 1-11 final season, has misplaced 15 in a row to ranked opponents.
Ballot implications
Alabama dropped seven spots within the High 25 after dropping at house to Texas. Struggling on the street in opposition to a workforce that had dropped 11 in a row earlier than beating FCS foe Florida A&M the earlier week seemingly will not assist the Crimson Tide a lot within the subsequent ballot.
Up subsequent
Alabama returns house for its Southeastern Convention opener in opposition to No. 17 Ole Miss.
USF hosts Rice in its American Athletic Convention opener.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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