The players have a 24-hour rule in the aftermath of games. Win or lose, you have 24 hours to celebrate or dwell on it. After that, you flush it and move on to the next opponent.
It wasn’t 24 minutes after Alabama’s 20-9 win over LSU on Saturday before Ty Simpson had already turned his attention to Oklahoma.
Simpson remembers all too well what happened last year in Norman, how the Crimson Tide was ambushed and watched their College Football Playoff hopes go up in smoke with an embarrassing performance. Alabama mustered only three points on offense, its lowest total in 20 years…