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’BAMA’S NEW STAR.
Welcome to the Bryce Young era of Alabama football. It looks as if it will be a lot of fun — unless you’re playing the Crimson Tide.
Young set a school record for touchdown passes by a quarterback making his first start with four as the Tide took care of No. 14 Miami with no trouble.
Young has a chance to be even more dynamic than the guys who have come before him at Alabama. Those guys, Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts and Mac Jones, are all scheduled to start for NFL teams next week.
Young is undersized, listed at 6-feet and 194 pounds but that might be a stretch. Doesn’t matter. Those Kyler Murray comps looked pretty good in Atlanta. Young was 27 for 38 for 344 yards.
“He plays like a veteran out there,” coach Nick Saban said.
No one should be terribly surprised that Young is really good and Alabama again appears to be a fully functional Death Star even after saying goodbye to six first-round draft picks off last year’s unbeaten team.
Young, the former five-star recruit from California, came into his first career start as one of the odds on favorites to win the Heisman Trophy.
Still, fans with Alabama fatigue after watching Saban’s dynasty win half the national titles in the last dozen year might have had some fleeting hope that breaking in a new QB could make the Tide a touch more vulnerable in 2021.
Maybe that will prove to be true at some point, but don’t bet on it.
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Welcome to the Bryce Young era of Alabama football. It looks as if it will be a lot of fun — unless you’re playing the Crimson Tide.
Young set a school record for touchdown passes by a quarterback making his first start with four as the Tide took care of No. 14 Miami with no trouble.
Young has a chance to be even more dynamic than the guys who have come before him at Alabama. Those guys, Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts and Mac Jones, are all scheduled to start for NFL teams next week.
Young is undersized, listed at 6-feet and 194 pounds but that might be a stretch. Doesn’t matter. Those Kyler Murray comps looked pretty good in Atlanta. Young was 27 for 38 for 344 yards.
“He plays like a veteran out there,” coach Nick Saban said.
No one should be terribly surprised that Young is really good and Alabama again appears to be a fully functional Death Star even after saying goodbye to six first-round draft picks off last year’s unbeaten team.
Young, the former five-star recruit from California, came into his first career start as one of the odds on favorites to win the Heisman Trophy.
Still, fans with Alabama fatigue after watching Saban’s dynasty win half the national titles in the last dozen year might have had some fleeting hope that breaking in a new QB could make the Tide a touch more vulnerable in 2021.
Maybe that will prove to be true at some point, but don’t bet on it.
AP Top 25 Takeaways: 'Bama's Young worthy successor at QB U
Georgia is trying to bring defense back. In the centerpiece game of the opening weekend of college football, the fifth-ranked Bulldogs put on a relentless, ferocious, smothering display of defense against No 3 Clemson on Saturday night in Charlotte.
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