'The Crimson Tide was buried under a pile of stinkin’ penalties in the 52-49 Tennessee loss,' cartoonist JD Crowe writes. Read more from JD Crowe here:
Approaching the Alabama football record with 15 penalties at Texas was the first alarm followed by a 10-flag trip to Arkansas. After surviving both with dramatic wins, the school mark went down in Saturday’s loss at Tennessee.
The 17 accepted penalties were one more than the previous mark set in 1995 and 2002 and pushed Alabama to an unfamiliar place. Through seven games, the 66 Crimson Tide penalties rank dead last among the 131 FBS teams. Quantifying inconsistency can be a challenge but this supplies some degree of context to what’s been a seven-game run that’s spanned the spectrum of quality play.“Too many pre-snap penalties, false starts on offense,” Saban said. “I think we had three in the game.
“Those are the kind of penalties that are undisciplined, not focused, not looking at what you’re supposed to look at so we don’t have those issues. But they all put you behind the eight-ball.”
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