Saban's comments tell you all you need to know...

[LouisVOL]

About Heupel being able to outscheme adjustments:

"They created a lot of mismatches. We were trying to play nickel, so they were trying to get their best receivers on the safeties, and they hit a couple times and we gave up big plays. We started dropping eight guys, that helped us in the second quarter. We did the same thing in the third quarter and played some dime so we’d have some better matchups against them. So we made some good adjustments in the game, but we just gave up too many big plays. Even in the second half, they scored on big plays.”

[tshadow]

 Translation: adjustments not working... getting our asses kicked.

[JeffCountyVolFan]

An effective and efficient offense that can read and react to the defense’s weaknesses and responses is unstoppable.