19 Days Until Kickoff!!

Eric Dickerson (#19), RB, SMU

And we are 19....19 Eric Dickerson days away from the kickoff of college football season. And as the season gets closer, I continue my efforts to get your hearts & minds ready for college football by presenting videos of Bama football. Today's video is Gene Stallings coaching in his final game for the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1997 Outback Bowl against the Michigan Wolverines. In a contest that Stallings always preffered, the defense prevailed, on both sides of the ball. Michigan lead 6-3 with just under 13 minutes to go in the game when heavy Bama D-line pressure forced a weak pass into the arms of Bama Linebacker Dwayne Rudd who raced 88 yards for Bama's first TD of the game. With neither team able to establish a ground attack Rudd's interception was the difference in the game. Alabama defeated Michigan 17-14, giving Coach Stallings his 70'th win in 7 seasons as his Tidesmen finished the 1996 campaign 10-3.