Alabama Football: 3 takeaways from the Tide's win over Colorado State

Alabama Football: 3 takeaways from the Tide’s win over Colorado State

TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 09: Head coach Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide speaks during a press conference after the Clemson Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide 35-31 in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship Game at Raymond James Stadium on January 9, 2017 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images) /

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3. Jalen Hurts‘ job is safe

The only person with a job safer in Tuscaloosa is Nick Saban. Jalen Hurts will be the Tide’s starting quarterback until he decides otherwise. Hurts is now 17-1 as the starting quarterback. A year after having some rocky moments throwing the ball, Hurts finished the CSU win 12-of-17 passing for 248 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions. He added 103 yards rushing and a touchdown on 9.4 yards per carry.

Only at Bama can a guy who scores 36 touchdowns and loses the national title game by a hair as a freshman can be on the hot seat as a quarterback.

What Lane Kiffin showed to Nick Saban was that your offensive scheme has to be adaptable to whatever personnel you have on campus.

For years, the Crimson Tide built a program and threw a passer in that wouldn’t mess up a good thing. Hurts came into that type of mindset but Lane Kiffin slowly got Nick Saban to adapt his reasoning and build an offense around Hurts. While Steve Sarkisian struggled to maximize Hurts’ abilities in the title game, Brian Daboll seems more inclined to make him the man at Alabama.

Also Tua Tagovailoa, the highly-ranked freshman quarterback, only finished his mop up duty 1-for-4 with zero yards.

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