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Alabama notebook Former AD Hootie Ingram in New Orleans to watch Crimson Tide | 4C
Quarter glance Breakdown of each quarter and complete game statistics | 4C
PHOTO | JASON HARLESS
Total control McCarron, offense show poise in rolling up 384 yards on Tigers | 5C
Staying positive Teammates encourage C.J. Mosley after leaving with injury | 5C
PHOTO | DUSTY COMPTON
ABOVE: University of Alabama’s Hasean Clinton-Dix (6), Xzavier Dickson (47), Alex Watkins (91) and Vinnie Sunseri (3) tackle LSU’s Ron Brooks in the fourth quarter of Monday’s BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans. Alabama’s defense held LSU to just 92 total yards of offense.
BELOW: Alabama kicker Jeremy Shelley holds the BCS championship trophy following the Tide’s win. Shelley kicked five field goals, the most in a BCS Championship Game.
PHOTO | JASON HARLESS
Something special Shelley, Maze make special-teams plays to key Bama’s win | 6C
LSU no match in rematch UA does a little bit extra to crush LSU in second meeting | 6C
Badgered Honey Badger and the Tigers end dominant year with a whimper | 6C
Championship moments Photo page of Monday’s BCS title game | 7C
For video and a photo gallery of Monday’s BCS national title game, visit www.tidesports.com
Alabama claims 14th title with dominant win over LSU
NEW ORLEANS here are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. College football, Fitzgerald’s favorite sport, proved him wrong Monday night. Nov. 6, 2011, was not a good day for the University of Alabama football team. By extension, it wasn’t a good day for Tuscaloosa. Not the worst day of the year. Not by a long shot. But it seemed that this Crimson Tide — clearly a team of national championship caliber — might be denied a chance at playing for college football’s title by its own mistakes and an admittedly good opponent. CECIL Alabama held its destiny in its hand, and HURT bobbled it. That destiny tumbled to the ground — but it didn’t quite shatter. Improbable events began to happen. Stanford lost, and Oklahoma State. Fate gave Alabama a chance to take hold of its destiny again. What Alabama did with its second chance should be SEE HURT | 6C
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By Cecil Hurt Sports Editor
NEW ORLEANS | The University of Alabama got its second chance on Monday night. And LSU had no chance at all. The Crimson Tide completely engulfed LSU at the Superdome, smashing the Tigers 21-0 in a dominant performance that gave Alabama its second BCS title and should settle any legitimate debate about any version of the national championship. Jeremy Shelley made five of his seven field-goal attempts and Trent Richardson capped the scoring with a 34-yard touchdown run — the only touchdown in two Alabama-LSU games this year — to provide more than enough offense for a defense that left LSU looking battered and bewildered. “This demonstrates the character of the young men in the locker room” Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said. “It’s easy to do the right thing some of the time, but this team has done the right thing almost all the time.” “We wanted to show that we beat ourselves in the fi rst game,” said Courtney Upshaw, the game’s defensive MVP, said. SEE T ITLE | 5C
Bama rises to occasion with second chance
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