So what went wrong on offense this evening?

At halftime, Alabama made a couple of very basic adjustments. It only took about 3 series for the UM DC to slow those adjustments down. But what was the bigger issue?

Without doing in-depth film study, I saw two things we were not able to adjust around and unless those are fixed this offseason we will see those issues again.

UM did not spy the QB. Instead they ran a shallow/tight zone. It was largely a shallow version of the Tampa Two. Milroe and the WR's were running/throwing man routes against zone coverage. The WR's never adjusted to sitting down in zone holes. The holes were about 15 to 17 yards deep and between the hashes.

Because of the zone, UM was able to also run multiple versions of high/low blitzes and stunts at both OT's. The Alabama offense did a poor job of chipping/helping the OT's who were having to choose which of the two guys to block or reaching for one just before the stun came to the area they just vacated.

Both of those issues are on the OC and the QB. Pass routes to the outside and deep were covered for at least 5 to 8 seconds. A really good push up the middle by the UM DL (#55) destroyed our center and killed the ability for Milroe to step forward in the pocket.Milroe never figured out how to adjust blocking/pllays to deal with the high/low abuse of our OT's. The high/lows meant the Milroe had to get rid of the ball quiclkly and over the middle (intermediate routes (his greatest weakness).

The QB was not capable of reading/adjusting to the rush and he was never able to adjust his coverage reads to handle a zone that was forcing him to throw over the middle.

Alabama won the 3rd quarter but lost the other 3 quarters and overtime.