Alabama vs Auburn: Iron Bowl score, highlights and recap

The Crimson Tide found the end zone after another Auburn punt.

Auburn, at one point in the season, looked to be one of the last possible teams capable of beating Alabama in 2016. It increases Bama’s advantage in the all-time series to 45-35-1. Auburn falls to 8-4 on the year and awaits bowl selection day on December 4 to see where they will play their post-season game. Because once November 26, 2016 comes and goes, the only way you see the Woe Eagles from now on will be on Alabama Crimson Tide highlight films.

“I think about it every time we play Auburn, ” Tide defensive end Jonathan Allen said. “I’m really proud of our team, especially the way that they played in the second half. That is where our focus needs to be”. As SB Nation pointed out, some of the more advanced statistics show that Alabama has some weaknesses that the Tigers may be able to exploit.

The Tide defense is the best in the land against teams of full strength, so imagine how bad it was when the walking Tiger wounded limped out of The Fail Room?

“I am not going to blame Jeremy or anybody else, because any time you go 2 of 12 on third down, then it becomes a collective group effort”, Malzahn said. Penn State (10-2, 8-1 Big Ten) edged No. 2 Ohio State for the East title, setting up a conference championship game against West victor Wisconsin next week in Indianapolis. For the competitors in the game, they probably enjoy this competition, this kind of rivalry as much as any game that they play.

“We felt pretty good”.

Though the first game was played over 100 years ago, the teams have only played each other 80 times, making the 2016 Iron Bowl the 81st game. The Tide face the Gators in the SEC Championship next weekend in the Georgia Dome, looking to absolutely clinch the No. 1 seed in the four-team bracket.

Alabama has outscored its opponents by 578 points, 860-282, an average of 25.1 points per game, during the streak. “Beat Auburn” is on Saban’s to-do list, sure, but it’s way down there, well below “National Championship”, “Playoff Berth”, “SEC Championship”, and “Practice saying nothing of outcome”.

“Somebody attached me on Twitter yesterday about how our defense hadn’t given up a touchdown in a long time”, Hamilton said, “so I attached (senior inside linebacker) Reuben (Foster)”. But in these types of games anything can happen, which we have seen in year’s past.

“They run the ball very effectively”.

“Our guys did a really good job”, Saban said. Riese had a 16-yard run and Crossan went in from the 1.

For Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn, his unit failed to establish its well-respected ground attack throughout, as they were outgained 203-66 overall. If White can’t make the start in Bryant-Denny, I think the Tigers’ chances of winning the game dip to around 5%. Auburn’s Carl Lawson is tied for third in the league with nine sacks. He and Adams are Lombardi Award semifinalists.

In a game plan that resembled a confounding consistent set of revolving quarterback substitutions, Malzahn said it was “part of our plan” to have four different players take the snap from center in a first half where they gained just 31 yards and one first down Saturday. The running game sealed Alabama’s 18-point victory over the Tigers.