Report: Alabama updates status of three starters ahead of national title game

The team over at ESPN has provided more good news for fans of Alabama football moments away from kickoff and the national championship game. It was believed that the Crimson Tide would be without starting corner Jalyn Armour-Davis for Monday night’s College Football Championship game against the Georgia Bulldogs. But according to ESPN’s Chris Low, Alabama we’ll get him back and then some for the championship game.

“I’m told that @AlabamaFTBL OT Chris Owens and OG Emil Ekiyor will play tonight in the title game vs. Georgia after leaving the Cincinnati game in the semifinals with injuries. It was a shoulder for Ekiyor. CB Jalyn Armour-Davis is expected to be available to play,” wrote Low, Via Twitter.

With kickoff right around the corner, this is great news for the Crimson Tide, but yet another thing for the Bulldogs to prepare for.

Alabama stat that’s a bad omen for Georgia

If you are a fan of Alabama football and statistical omens, then you’re in luck as there is a combination of both in favor of the Crimson Tide in tonight’s national championship game.

The team over at ESPN has been digging around and crunching a few numbers. They found that in Alabama’s last 95 games played, there have only been two separate occasions in which they have been underdogs, under Nick Saban. And those two games that Alabama was not favored in were against, you guessed it, the Georgia Bulldogs.

But the main part of that stat, which should have Alabama fans preparing for their seventh national championship under Saban, is the outcomes of those two games. The Crimson Tide and their head coach won those games by an average score of 22.5 points.

It’s one thing to come out on top in a game that you are the underdog in, but it is terrifying for the other team if you have done so, on average, by more than three touchdowns.