Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson was benched within the second half in opposition to No. 1 Indiana within the No. 9 Crimson Tide’s 38-3 loss within the Rose Bowl on Thursday. Backup Crimson Tide quarterback Austin Mack entered the School Soccer Playoff quarterfinal in Simpson’s place with Alabama trailing 24-0 within the third quarter.
Simpson took a giant hit within the first half whereas attempting to increase for a primary down and has been grimacing whereas throwing the ball. He tried to come back again and play within the second half. The hit was on Simpson’s decrease again and led to a fumble, which the Hoosiers transformed into factors.
Nonetheless, Simpson has struggled to create explosive performs throughout a heavyweight battle with the Hoosiers. The junior accomplished 12-of-16 passes for 67 yards and added 17 yards on the bottom, however was held with no rating in his snaps.
“Ty had an harm, clearly, and he actually wished to attempt to go on the market,” Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer stated after the sport. “And we handled him there at halftime. He gave it a collection.
“I do know he appears like he let down the workforce, and there isn’t any manner that that is the case. He went on the market, tried to battle. That is who he’s, so I am by no means going to let that be a factor the place he allow us to down in any manner. So ensuring he is aware of that.”
Mack got here off the bench and performed good snaps in aid of Simpson, together with main the Crimson Tide’s lone subject objective drive. The California native accomplished 11-of-16 passes for 103 yards, however was additionally sacked a number of occasions within the loss. Mack’s three drives averaged practically eight performs per drive in comparison with solely 5 for Simpson’s drives.
Alabama scored solely three factors of their loss to the Hoosiers, failing to achieve a number of scores for the second time in three video games. The Crimson Tide completed the yr dropping three of their closing six video games, together with dropping three of 4 in opposition to ranked opponents.
After the win, No. 1 Indiana heads to face No. 5 Oregon on the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. The Hoosiers are the ultimate remaining undefeated workforce in faculty soccer, and hope to turn into the primary 16-0 workforce in main faculty historical past.
