🏈 Alabama Stats & Records

[Alabama17Tide]

Rushing offense: 237 (20th nationally, t-3rd in SEC)
Passing offense: 252.8 (47th, 5th)
Total offense: 489.8 (24th, 4th)
Points per game: 44.8 (t-6th, 1st)

Rushing defense: 69.2 (1st, 1st)
Passing defense: 223.3 (61st, 8th)
Total defense: 292.5 (12th, 2nd)
Points allowed per game: 15.8 (11th, 3rd)

Turnover margin: +5 (20th, 3rd)

1. The 49 points scored last night run Alabama’s total through the first six games of the season to 269 points. That’s the second-most in any six-game stretch in school history (303 points in the final 6 games of 1945) and more than 67 entire teams in Alabama’s history. It’s also the most points in the first 6 games in any season in school history, which is even more impressive considering there’s a new quarterback and all new running backs. This group started from scratch, more or less.

2. Alabama now has 9 non-offensive touchdowns on the year, more total touchdowns than South Carolina (7 before Sunday’s game) and Buffalo (8 through five games). Heck, the Alabama defense has only allowed 9 total touchdowns all season. The defensive/special teams scoring is a big reason why Alabama has rolled up so many points this year. Take away those 9 TDs and Alabama is at 206 total points instead of 269.

3. The starting offense rolled up 486 total yards on 44 plays last night before they started to pull Jalen Hurts and some other players in the fourth quarter. That’s an average of over 11 yards per play. For comparison, Alabama is now averaging 6.85 yards per play this season, which is 14th nationally and 2nd in the conference - and they obliterated that mark. There were also chunk plays of 67, 60, 57 and 56 yards in there but the offense was explosive last night. It was so explosive that it only got 16 first downs (there were 25 against Kentucky), mostly because they ate up too much yardage at once to be getting five or six first downs on a single drive.

4. The rush defense looks deadly again this year. Even though the buzz was about the secondary, and even though the defensive line isn’t as deep as last year, here’s where Alabama stands this year in rushing defense and in yards per attempt relative to the last six years:
2016: 69.2 yards per game (1st nationally); 2.2 yards per rush (1st nationally)
2015: 75.7 (1st), 2.4 ypc (2nd)
2014: 102.4 (4th), 3.2 ypc (8th)
2013: 106.2 (7th), 3.3 ypc (14th)
2012: 76.3 (1st), 2.4 ypc (1st)
2011: 72.2 (1st), 2.4 (1st)

5. We need to mention Minkah Fitzpatrick here, right? We need to mention Minkah Fitzpatrick here. He had 3 interceptions returned 114 yards with one touchdown. Or as someone suggested on Twitter, a pretty good stat line for a slot WR. He tied the school record for INTs in a game and broke the school record for INT return yardage in a game.

6. Jalen Hurts’ interception in the third quarter was his first since throwing one in the third quarter against Southern Cal, a stretch of 139 straight passes without an interception. In that time he was 90-139 (64.7%) for 1,124 yards with five touchdowns and no picks. He also ran for 264 yards and three touchdowns in that time.

Ben Jones
TideSports.com Editor

SUNDAY STATS: Deadly rush defense; Hurts' interception-free streak; school scoring record | TideSports.com

 

[rick4bama]

Thanks for the inform @Alabama16Tide.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Good stuff, but Tidesports came up a little shy on their secondary analysis.

Minkah's pick six return broke the old record of 98 yards (Mark McMillian 1991). That was also Minkah's third career pick six for a TD which tied him for the career mark with Langham, Mosley and I think Eddie now, too.

Jackson is in rare air as well. With 18 yards in INT returns in '14, 230 last year (a season record that broke Hootie Ingram's record of 162 from 1952) and 55 so far this year, Eddie is the career recordholder for INT return yards. I think he's at 303, which is ahead of Bobby Luna's 1951-54 tally 0f 255. Amazing that these two records held for over 60 years, but with Minkah at 202 career yards and counting with at least one more year to go, Eddie may be at number two in another season.

By the way, last year's 4 INT returns for TD (2 each by Eddie and Minkah) tied the 1995 team record. Team INT return yards of 462 also broke the 1991 team record of 402. The total INTs of 19, however, doesn't make the list of best years for total INTs, with 15 squads having 20 or more INTs in a year. Interestingly, not a single Saban squad is in that top 15. 1979 holds the record with 25, and the most recent team to make the list is 1992 with 22. You could argue that Saban's DB instruction leans more on the PBU than the INT, but his superior quality of athletes means they do more with an INT once they get their hands on it.

We are certainly living in rare times in terms of INT returns for TDs, and return yards in general.

Roll Tide, y'all.

RTR,

Tim

 

[rick4bama]

Good stuff, but Tidesports came up a little shy on their secondary analysis.

Minkah's pick six return broke the old record of 98 yards (Mark McMillian 1991). That was also Minkah's third career pick six for a TD which tied him for the career mark with Langham, Mosley and I think Eddie now, too.

Jackson is in rare air as well. With 18 yards in INT returns in '14, 230 last year (a season record that broke Hootie Ingram's record of 162 from 1952) and 55 so far this year, Eddie is the career recordholder for INT return yards. I think he's at 303, which is ahead of Bobby Luna's 1951-54 tally 0f 255. Amazing that these two records held for over 60 years, but with Minkah at 202 career yards and counting with at least one more year to go, Eddie may be at number two in another season.

By the way, last year's 4 INT returns for TD (2 each by Eddie and Minkah) tied the 1995 team record. Team INT return yards of 462 also broke the 1991 team record of 402. The total INTs of 19, however, doesn't make the list of best years for total INTs, with 15 squads having 20 or more INTs in a year. Interestingly, not a single Saban squad is in that top 15. 1979 holds the record with 25, and the most recent team to make the list is 1992 with 22. You could argue that Saban's DB instruction leans more on the PBU than the INT, but his superior quality of athletes means they do more with an INT once they get their hands on it.

We are certainly living in rare times in terms of INT returns for TDs, and return yards in general.

Roll Tide, y'all.

RTR,

Tim

Minkah's a Jersey boy , he not along with Averett also being from Jersey too. Side note on Averett he from Woodbury, NJ, this is my wife High school alma mater. I now really have two players to see do good on the team Bozeman and Averett.

 

[Rolltide24]

Our pass defense has been a real surprise. In a bad way.... With the pressure we expected to put in the QB, with Jackson, Minkah, Humphry all returning and Foster improving his speed and coverage skills, it just doesn't add up. Some guys seem to be regressing vs improving. We've got some more good QBs on the schedule and we can't keep giving up the big pass plays and survive. I'm afraid it's going to come back to bite us.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Our pass defense has been a real surprise. In a bad way.... With the pressure we expected to put in the QB, with Jackson, Minkah, Humphry all returning and Foster improving his speed and coverage skills, it just doesn't add up. Some guys seem to be regressing vs improving. We've got some more good QBs on the schedule and we can't keep giving up the big pass plays and survive. I'm afraid it's going to come back to bite us.

Much of the yardage came in the second half when we stopped pressuring so much. Allen's going to light some people up. He's good.

 

[Bamabww]

Allen's going to light some people up. He's good.

And very tough. He took a beating and never gave up. He really impressed me. Good players are going to make plays, even against Alabama.