By Paul Beaudry | pbeaudry@al.com | Posted October 12, 2018 at 08:30 PM
So there’s good news and bad news for top-ranked Alabama’s 6 p.m. game on ESPN with Missouri (3-2, 0-2).
Good news: DIXIELAND DELIGHT IS BACK! Bad news: Tua’s tweaked a knee, might even be a sprain.
Good news: But DIXIELAND DELIGHT IS BACK! Bad news: Return to the lyrics you used before they pulled it, and it will go away again faster than it takes Alabama (6-0, 3-0) to score on the first drive of a game.
Good News: We wrote about more than just DIXIELAND DELIGHT this week; come check out our stories, videos and more. Bad news: Tua’s bad knee or not, the spread hasn’t budged a bit. It’s still 28 points.
Top 3 Plays
As is tradition every week, you don’t know where you’re going until you remember where you’ve been. And with that in mind, here are the Top 3 Plays against Arkansas.
It wouldn’t be Alabama without Tua
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It wouldn’t be Alabama without Tua
You know we can’t talk about Alabama football without Tua, Tua and more Tua, aight?
We’ll start with him leading the nation in four passing categories. Seriously. And the best part is, they’re positive passing categories; not like interceptions, turnovers, fumbles and times sacked. Oh yeah, Alabama fared well in other categories too.
But the stats where he’s leading the nation aren’t the only silly, crazy numbers. Check these out: Seriously, he’s got almost as many touchdown passes as incompletions. Twenty touchdowns and no interceptions. Who does that?
How they fared
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How they fared
SEC Insider
Former Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson joins Lauren Sisler in the AL.com studio to discuss how remarkable Tua Tagovailoa’s seamless transition as the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback has been so far in the 2018 season.