You may still not believe we have a decent DC, that's fine, but your stats are screwed up, and I'm not sure how you believe MSU has a better offense than us. If you truly believe that, then holding them to 293 total yards, including 78 yards and the only six points given up at garbage time is a great job. That Bama couldn't force their will and run the ball to close the game out is not on the defense. We run the ball and the last 3:58 of garbage time doesn't happen. In the second half, they punted three times, turned it over on downs, and had the last drive to end the game.
As both Saban (we were set up to stop the pass and they took advantage of it) and Leach ("they were giving it to us") noted, we had personnel in at the beginning of the game, for the first three drives (truly much of the game), asking them to run, so they did - and they managed to have the first three drives stall out after respective totals of nine yards (punt), 57 yards (downs) and 39 yards (missed FG). They threw the ball 61 times, and were held to 231 yards passing. Yeah, they also managed 62 yards on the ground on 26 attempts.
I know it's fashionable to pile on both coordinators. This week, the game plan to prioritize pass D over rush D worked. Last week, seeking to contain the UT QB in the pocket did not work.
Sorry for the interruption.
RTR,
Tim