Alabama coach Nick Saban took a shaky quarterback situation and made it worse Saturday. The panic move to bench Jalen Milroe after the loss to Texas backfired badly against outmanned South Florida, with Tyler Buchner starting the game and Ty Simpson finishing it and the Crimson Tide looking farther away than ever from getting quality play at the most important position in football.
The Crimson Tide’s 17–3 victory over USF—a team that lost to Western Kentucky to open the season and was 4–29 the previous three seasons—was the worst win of Saban’s unparalleled tenure at the school. It calls into question whether No. 10 Alabama should even be ranked at this point; whether it should be favored next Saturday against Mississippi; and conceivably puts first-year offensive coordinator Tommy Rees’s tenure on the clock as well.
Yeah, it was that bad.
