Roydell Williams in a rush for 129 yards and a landing, serving to third-string quarterback Ty Simpson and Disagree. 10 Alabama shrug off a sluggish get started and beat South Florida 17-3 on Saturday.

The Red Current (2-1) rebounded from a 10-point loss to Texas, making improvements to to 14-1 in video games following a regular-season loss since 2008.

To do it, even though, Alabama had to conquer inconsistent quarterback play games and a number of other pricey errors that stored USF (1-2) within the recreation. The Bulls led 3-0 when lightning not on time play games for 55 mins in the second one quarter, and it was once 3-3 at halftime.

“The defense did an outstanding job of only giving up three points and that was after a turnover gave them good field position,” Red Current educator Nick Saban stated. “So our guys played well and pressured the quarterback well … kept him from making a lot of explosive plays.”

Notre Dame switch Tyler Buchner began at quarterback for Alabama in park of Jalen Milroe, a duel-threat redshirt sophomore who misplaced his hold at the Disagree. 1 process upcoming the offense sputtered within the earlier presen’s 34-24 loss.

Buchner wasn’t any further efficient, finishing simply 5 of 14 passes for 34 yards ahead of educator Nick Saban grew to become to Simpson when linebacker Dallas Turner compelled a USF fumble to arrange Alabama on the Bulls 25 upcoming the elements lengthen.

Simpson grew to become the giveover into Will Reichard’s 30-yard garden objective that made it 3-3. He in any case were given the Red Current finally zone, the usage of a 45-yard of entirety to C.J. Dippre to gas a six-play, 84-yard force that Roydell Williams completed with a 1-yard TD run for a 10-3 manage with 4:35 extra within the 1/3 quarter.

“I know you’re going to ask about the quarterbacks, but we’re going to evaluate (them) on how they played today and evaluate Jalen Milroe on how he played (in two starts),” Saban stated. “We’ll decide this week who gives us the best opportunity to be successful as an offensive team, and that’s the way we’ll go.”

Alabama harm itself early, with Kool-Help McKinstry’s shedding a fumble on a first-quarter punt go back to arrange John Cannon’s 44-yard garden objective for USF and Jeremiah Alexander’s protecting penalty that burnt up what would were Terrion Arnold’s 100-yard go back for a TD at the resulting kickoff.

Simpson completed 5 of 9 passing for 73 yards with out an interception, capping the victory with a 1-yard TD run within the terminating mins. Alabama gathered 203 yards at the field, with Jase McClellan gaining 70 of his 74 yards within the first part.

“I know we’ve got the SEC (conference play) coming up next week and obviously we’ve got a lot of things to fix and we’ll work on it,” Saban stated. “We’ve had four touchdowns this season negated by penalties. A kickoff return today, a touchdown run today and two last week. We need to fix all those things.”

Byrum Brown finished 14 of 28 passes for 87 yards and one interception for USF. He additionally ran for a team-leading 97 yards on 23 makes an attempt because the Bulls won 177 at the field.

USF’s lone scoring force lined 4 yards.

“There are no moral victories. Valiant efforts are for losers. Moral victories are for losers,” USF educator Alex Golesh stated.

“That’s what losers say: `Winners win,'” Golesh added. “So, there are no moral victories, there are no valiant efforts, there are no anything, We played winning football on defense, we played well enough (defensively) to win that football game.”

The takeaway

It wasn’t lovely, however Alabama achieved the predicted in extending its notable streak of no longer shedding consecutive steady season video games since 2008. The one back-to-back defeats over that reach got here when the Red Current misplaced to Auburn within the 2013 regular-season finale and nearest fell to Oklahoma within the 2014 Sugar Bowl.

USF, rebuilding below first-year educator Alex Golesh upcoming going 1-11 latter season, has misplaced 15 in a row to ranked warring parties.

Ballot implications

Alabama dropped seven spots within the Lead 25 upcoming shedding at house to Texas. Suffering at the highway in opposition to a staff that had dropped 11 in a row ahead of beating FCS foe Florida A&M the former presen most likely received’t backup the Red Current a lot within the later ballot.

Up later

Alabama returns house for its Southeastern Convention opener in opposition to Disagree. 17 Ole Leave out.

USF hosts Rice in its American Athletic Convention opener.

Reporting by means of The Related Press.

---

---