Alabama Scores Three Touchdowns in Two Minutes, Beats Florida State 50-36
Three touchdowns in 2 minutes and 14 seconds. That was the game. Florida State led 21-6 with 9:42 left in the second quarter, and by the time Keelon Russell was done throwing to Cederian Morgan (21 yards), Ryan Coleman-Williams (46) and Kaleb Edwards (16), Alabama led 26-21 at the half. The Seminoles got the lead back once, and not for long.
It did not look that way at first. Ashton Daniels threw a 20-yard touchdown to Duce Robinson on the opening score, Ousmane Kromah ran in from 12 yards, and Daniels added a 3-yard run of his own. Alabama had two Conor Talty field goals to show for that stretch. Then the lead changed three times in a hurry: Alabama took it just before the break, Florida State got it back on Daniels' 2-yard pass to Landen Thomas early in the third (28-26), and EJ Crowell's 4-yard run put Alabama up 33-28 for good. Russell then broke off a 57-yard touchdown run, and it was 40-28.
Daniels made it interesting. A 6-yard run and a two-point conversion at 7:27 of the fourth cut it to 43-36, and he finished with 377 passing yards and four total touchdowns. But he also threw three interceptions, and Alabama threw none. Trae'shawn Brown's 20-yard run with 2:15 left closed it out. Alabama finished with 572 yards to Florida State's 471, and 252 of those came on the ground on only 33 carries. The Seminoles gave the ball away three times to Alabama's zero, and they lost by 14.
Alabama is 3-0 and Florida State is 1-2. For fantasy, this was a shootout, and both quarterbacks and a receiver landed in the top three. If you started Daniels or Russell, you had a week.