For most of the past 2 decades and really for most of the past century, Alabama has been pushing its foes into oblivion, running up points and rolling to championship glory.
Those 30 SEC titles, 34 conference crowns in all, and those 18 claimed national titles, the first one coming exactly 100 years ago, were won in all shapes and sizes. But Alabama teams have always had a way of doing the punishing through shear physicality, on both sides of the ball, and one thing you hardly ever see is the Crimson Tide getting pushed around.
In the season opener of the 100th anniversary season of that first national championship, Alabama got pushed around…