No. 20 Mississippi State falls to No. 3 Alabama 31

He rushed for 204 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries. Prescott has 25 scores (18 passing) and just one interception in 2015. Head coach Nick Saban has been stressing that the team can not afford a letdown after such an emotional win as the Bulldogs have plenty of talent while Prescott is very much the talent he was previous year.

Special teams player of the week: Neither team seemed like it wanted to take the lead and win at Auburn. We dropped about four and five balls on a few of those plays.

The turning point of the game was when Cyrus Jones returned a punt 69-yards for a touchdown.

It was also his 15th straight game scoring a rushing touchdown, topping Tim Tebow’s impressive string at Florida in 2006-07.

State surrendered four touchdowns of 60 yards or more.

“It’s the SEC, we’ve got another good game next week and a road game, so we can’t be down on this too long”, quarterback Dak Prescott said. “A lot of adversity is going to come our way, but it’s about how we respond, how we take it, how many times can we get up”. This week’s big challenge will be stopping the league’s most prolific dual-threat quarterback. Mississippi State WR De’Runnya Wilson was injured midway through the fourth quarter and had to be carted off the field.

Alabama didn’t play especially well Saturday at Mississippi State. Heisman hopeful Derrick Henry was huge against the Tigers and will look to produce another big game Saturday against the Bulldogs. Mississippi State’s patchwork offensive line hasn’t adequately replaced the three starters it lost after last season.

Hevesy made it clear this Alabama defensive line is among the best he’s seen in his 11 seasons coaching in the SEC.

Henry topped 125 against all six and notched 200 against three of them.

Just like he did last week with Leondard Fournette, Derrick Henry overshadowed Dak Prescott on Saturday.

Those are Heisman-type numbers. Henry finished the half with 88 yards and the score on seven carries. He caught four passes for 102 yards and two touchdowns on November 5 in a 31-13 win over Missouri.

“That’s the kind of back that he is”. We did a good job of that in the second half. “I think he continues to improve as a passer – his passing efficiency, looking off people, doing the little things in the passing game that make a difference”.

“What you can always tell is he outruns the angles, and that’s when you know that someone’s pretty fast”. No. 2 Alabama (9-1, 6-1) hadn’t recorded that many sacks since 1998 against Vanderbilt.

I feel bad for Kenyan Drake, who fought his way back from such an terrible injury last year, and then plays his best game of the year against LSU, and then he fractures his arm against Mississippi State. Jake Coker can strive to be a quarterback, but simply trying to be a game manager sure looks like it will do the trick.

“The athlete that I am I was able to keep my feet”, Saban said. “I wanted to make a play because that is what they have me back there for”.

In addition to Alabama and Florida, other teams already qualified are Georgia (7-3) and Tennessee (6-4) in the East and LSU (7-2), MS (7-3), Texas A&M (7-3), Mississippi State (7-3), and Arkansas (6-4) in the West. The Tide entered Saturday in the top 10 nationally in that category, and they could be as high as second exiting the weekend.