After a shaky start in the opening game of their title defense, Marlon Humphrey and the Alabama Crimson Tide are still roll over the USC Trojans.
Marlon Humphrey is laying the wood for the Alabama defense and taking deflected passes back for touchdowns against the 20th-ranked USC Trojans inside AT&T Stadium on Saturday night.
After USC scored the initial three points of the game, Alabama settled down after a sluggish start and a turnover to score the next 10 points and take a seven-point lead over the Trojans.
Then, with the Trojans backed up and needing a spark, Max Browne dropped back to throw and his pass was deflected and picked off by Humphrey.
Humphrey didn’t have far to go to score and give the Tide a bigger cushion in the first half. His pick-six made it 17 unanswered points for the Tide against the Trojans.
It wasn’t the prettiest start from Alabama in their first game since winning it all back in January, but freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts calmed down after his early fumble on his first collegiate play and the Tide are looking like the Tide we’re used to seeing against USC.
Humphrey and the defense have allowed next to nothing since the field goal on USC’s opening drive of the night and may pitch a shutout in the second half if they play like they did in the second quarter.
The latter part of the first half saw the Alabama defense just take over the game. Their overall team speed and talent just swarmed the USC offense and there wasn’t much Max Browne and Co. could do against them.
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