Thursday, October 21, 2010

Alabama football notes: Julio Jones plays despite broken hand, but is based on the second half against Mississippi

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, left hand rotates reason Julio Jones to miss the start Saturday night.

It could have been the culprit behind of their early output, however.

Jones broke his left hand in the first half of last week in South Carolina loss, but plays through injury to catch eight passes for 118 yards and a touchdown.

After surgery last week, Jones returned to the starting line-up against Mississippi with a plate and screws in his left hand.

The receiver junior was a Blocker for the greater part of the first possession of having the first pass starts its way on third down on the 20 Mississippi.

Pass from quarterback Greg McElroy was a little high, and came out of the hands of Jones annotation. the tidal area still ended up scoring a touchdown when the rebels were marked to run in kicker Jeremy Shelley on the next play and marking of Preston caught a McElroy touchdown pass three snapshots later.

First capture Jones came in a screen on the right sideline pass and seems tenderly to defend against a Blocker with his hand injured for 8 yards and a first down.Tres plays later, however, left another pass.

Thereafter, went to the bench for the rest of the first half.

In his Thursday night radio show Alabama coach Nick Saban said that Jones would be a game-time decision while never said that it was dropped at any point during the week.

Slow startup

The lessons of the past three weeks made an impact on defence against Mississippi, Alabama at least in his first appearance of the night.

Tide surrendered to long drives to open each of the last three games against Arkansas, Florida and South Carolina.

Mississippi ran three plays and left after receiving the kick out opening.First touch rebels offset only 1 yards in two works of execution and a pass down the third.

The dominant play was not stopped allĂ­.Las first three possessions of Mississippi finished in punts once three touches to earn a combined 7 yards.

The Gators not able to charge during string tide of begins lento.Alabama linebacker Nico Johnson intercepted a pass break room and aim to maintain the Gators outside of the end zone.

Not bear sightings

The votes are in, and the new mascot was selected this week.

But black bear Mississippi students selected to represent the rebels in the days of games was nothing to be found on Saturday in Tuscaloosa.

The school is still months away introduce new mascot who defeated a shark and "Hotty and Totty" vote ended the week pasada.El nickname of Mississippi will remain the rebels, but a disguised black bear will be the incarnation day party, replacing Colonel Reb, who retired in 2003 by the school administration.

Classification of BCS

The first edition of the classification of Bowl Championship Series will be released live hoy.Televisado by ESPN, the most important combination of human polls and team ratings will become public at 8: 15 PM

The formula for the classification is divided into thirds partes.La Survey USA Today coaches and Harris Interactive poll account for two thirds of the equation, while a combination of six surveys team provide the rest.


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