A how-to guide to beating Alabama
By Alex Scarborough
Published September 25, 2013, 01:30:08 PM
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Jim McElwain doesn't buy much into the notion of Alabama's ability to be beaten. He didn't think so before his Colorado State Rams lost to the top-ranked Crimson Tide on Saturday and he didn't think so the following Monday. Losing was expected. They were, after all, something like a five touchdown underdog.
"They weren't going to show us anything they were holding for an SEC opponent," McElwain said. "I understand that."
But McElwain, who served as Nick Saban's offensive coordinator at UA from 2008-11, did have his team poke some holes in the Tide's aura of invincibility, despite maybe not getting its all.
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