We should have taken the points in the first half.

In the second quarter, we went for it 4th and 4 on the Alabama 9 and threw an incompletion. If we take the 3 points instead, we don’t have to go into crisis mode because we are down 10 early in the 4th quarter. It would have been a 1 score game, so you punt instead of going for it on 4th and 10 on your own 25.

I know going for it on 4th down is part of Kiffin’s identity, but you need to do it in high probability scenarios. Yesterday, we played like a team that believed it was the underdog, not like a team that could exchange punches.