Stephen A's Take: Roll Tide is DONE! Saban Return? Colorado got Buffaloed!

Published Nov 26, 2024, 3:00 PM

Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

Stephen A. shares his thoughts on the Kansas Jayhawks’ 37-21 win over the Colorado Buffaloes and the Oklahoma Sooners’ 24-3 stomping of Alabama’s Crimson Tide.  

Let's move on to some college football and talk about two teams fighting for a spot in the college football Playoff real quick, please, Colorado and Alabama. We'll start with Colorado with a chance for Deon Sanders and the Buffs and took a big hit after Kansas, of all teams, beat them Saturday thirty seven.

To twenty one.

Colorado's record is now six and two and they need help to reach the conference title game. The Buffaloes were destroyed on the ground as the Jails rushed for three hundred and thirty one yards on fifty seven carries. As for Alabama, they were blown out by Oklahoma twenty four to three and their third loss of the season. Quarterback Jayleen milroad through three interceptions and completed the less than half of its passes for the Crimson Tide. Let me say this about Colorado first before I get into Alabama. Here's the biggest problem. Two things with Colorado dion not having some hogs on the offensive on the line of scrimmage.

Offensively or defensively, you give up three hundred.

And thirty three hundred plus yards rushing three hundred and thirty one yards. In this particular case, people can run all over you.

You gotta have some you gotta have.

Some big boys up in there, and it's gonna be pretty difficult for him to get them to Colorado. So I think that plays a role. But here's the biggest thing that plays a role. Too many damn dudes on the team think they primetime. Your coach is prime time, not you. Deon Sanders is the greatest cornerback in NFL history and arguably the greatest athlete in American history. Play basketball, play baseball, play football, play football in the NFL. While he was playing Major League Baseball, played for the Braves, played for the Yankees. Deon Sanders is as elite as they come and a winner wherever he goes.

All American at Florida State.

Special teams, wide receiver, cornerback in the NFL. As a player, the brothers all world, y'all are not.

Well, maybe Travis Hunter is because that brother is special, but y'all are not.

And because all this hype and this hoopline, this shine that was thrown on the process and throwing on the organization, you got cats walking around there acting like.

You did something you ain't done. Shit he has.

That's why Deon Sanders went up there in the post game and said, yo, cats were feeling themselves. Your coach is the Hall of Famer, Your coach was the All world player. Your coach was the marquee, the box office attraction.

Not you. You lost to Nebraska, now you've lost to Kansas. That's how it goes. That's their problem.

When they were three and oh last year, they were feeling themseling and then they got their behinds kicked six straight weeks to seven or eight weeks to close out the season. This year is significantly much better.

But the minute we.

Started acknowledging it, getting you set for a big twelve championship game at a probable berth in the college football playoffs.

You go and you lose to a team that.

Already had five to six losses on the season, Kansas, three hundred and thirty one yards Russian.

Y'all ain't Prime. You're coached by Prime.

Somebody needed to tell y'all that.

That's why I'm reminding you. The other story is Alabama, Ladies and gentlemen.

If Alabama fans protested and demanded the program fire Kaitlyn de Boor, and they got on their hands and knees and protested outside the gates of ESPN to insist that Nick Saban be let go from college football game day so he could return this coach at Alabama.

I wouldn't blame him. I mean, damn.

Bad enough, you lost the Vanderbilt for the first time in forty years.

It's bad enough you.

Had two losses, but then you're gonna turn around and lose to Oklahoma and by the way, score three points.

That's the most points.

That's the least amount of points Alabama's been held to since two thousand and four against South Carolina. That's one of the worst losses they've had in decades. I mean, this is just embarrassing.

Kady. The boy comes from.

Washington, comes from the PAC twelve two Tome Pack twelve Coach of the Year.

You've won wherever you've gone.

But clearly you're comfortable with for ness because when you got to go against hogs and rough riders and you got some yourself, and for some reason you can't figure out how to utilize them.

What does that make you? Jayalen Mirroe, your chances at the Heisman are over. You ain't getting that scratch that dream.

And the boy succeeded Nick Saban, where's the attention to detail, ladies and gentlemen. This is Oklahoma we're talking about. Ain't that damn good? Ain't that damn good? Nicky Rolly ain't coaching it no more? And even before then, it's been damn near decades before you heard defense in Oklahoma football mentioned in the same breath.

But they hold Alabama to three points. This is bad. It's very bad.

I just wanted to say that, Okay, if Kaitlin de Boy was succeeding anybody else, we got a stomach it and liquid it.

There's no way that a knick saving team would have allowed that to happen yesterday.

There's no way that the knick saving team is walking against walking on the field against Oklahoma and they scoring three points. That is horrible, horrible. I'm not saying Dayling can't Kailin the boy can't coach. I'm not saying that he doesn't belong coaching on an elite level on college football. But maybe Alabama was the wrong program for him. Maybe he should have succeeded somebody like Brian Kelly at LSU or Jimbo Fisher at Texas A and M or something like that, or maybe he should have gone that Florida State to succeed Norville, so Dion could come to some place like the SEC, assuming he's going to be able to recruit them hogs that you need to block on your offensive line and to get after the quarterback on the defensive line. But outside of that, when I look at the Boar succeeding Nick Saban appears to be too much for him, and.

We're seeing the results.

Alabama is not going to be playing for the SEC championship and they ain't gonna make the playoffs either. We wouldn't have even thought about that kind of catastrophe taking place if Nick Saban was still here and that man is over seventy. What the hell is going on?

What's going on? MHM