Alabama (still) looks like Alabama in throttling of Wisconsin
Alabama (still) looks like Alabama in throttling of Wisconsin
The Kalen DeBoer Era is off to a great start, as the Crimson Tide are 3-0 after dominating the Badgers at Camp Randall.
MADISON, Wis. — The pregame walk West on Regent St. here is enough to make anyone feel young again. Night game or noon game, from The Annex to the Sconnie Bar, this strip overflows with red-clad men and women of all ages, creating a postcard-like advertisement for all the possibilities of a college football game day.
Then the ball kicks off, and Alabama comes to play. You hear all about the Crimson Tide in this part of the country, mostly because of the Nick Saban era, but you never really know the soul-sucking feeling of a visit from ‘Bama until you are counting down the minutes till the end of the third — not fourth — quarter, because a day this beautiful demands you at least stay to sing and dance to “Jump Around.”
Although even that turned into something of a crimson-and-white celebration.
It was No. 4 Alabama 42, Wisconsin 10. Maybe it ends up closer if Badgers quarterback Tyler Van Dyke doesn’t suffer a nasty-looking leg injury on the first drive of the game. That the result seemed pre-determined the moment the signal caller went down speaks to the reality — still — of Alabama football, even if Wisconsin ended that drive with a field goal to take a brief lead.
By the end of the third quarter, as House of Pain gave the Camp Randall crowd something to get excited about, Tide players jumped and swayed on their sidelines as their dejected Wisconsin counterparts huddled on theirs, those stands emptying out in the moments afterward.
“We were ready to just shut that weak-ass ‘Jump’ song down,” receiver Germie Bernard said with a smile.