“I ain’t as good as I once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was.”
The lyric from Toby Keith’s country classic neatly captures where Alabama football’s offense finds itself ahead of the first round of the College Football Playoff against Oklahoma.
After late-season struggles, the Crimson Tide is searching for the version of itself that showed up in wins over Georgia, Vanderbilt, Missouri and Tennessee.
The song even reflects Alabama’s struggles with injury down the stretch — and the defiance displayed by guys like quarterback Ty Simpson, who insisted his team has the “best offense in the country” despite a one-touchdown performance in the SEC championship.
“Now my body says ‘You can’t do this, boy.’ But my pride says ‘Oh yes, you can.’”
