Dominate the Super Bowl

Knees, slightly trembling.

Browning took a deep breath, straightened his knees, and clenched his fists silently telling himself:

This is an illusion, it's all just a frightening illusion. There's no need to fear the Crimson Tide Storm; the opponents are merely paper tigers bluffing their power—they are capable and ready to defeat them.

They were ready.

However, the Crimson Tide Storm had its doubts: Really?

Sometimes, you think you're ready but you're not actually ready because self-comfort can lead to deception making you blind to the truth, at which point an observer is needed to remind you of the reality.

Like now, the Crimson Tide Storm was prepared to play such a rational role.

First gear, ten yards, Browning's "face lost its color", feeling his knees tighten.

—The Crimson Tide Storm, too, chose to blitz.

Just a simple four-man blitz without a numerical advantage, but the entire momentum and intensity were completely different. Barely after the kickoff, Browning could already see Allen's crimson eyes tightly focusing on him like a shadow.

Browning did not give up.

Dodging left and right, shifting and moving.

Browning tried to shake off the crisis and enact a miraculous comeback, using his own legs to carve out his path. He still hadn't given up on the possibility of passing; but hardly had he started moving when he felt a mountainous force crashing down on him, rendering all his adjustments and movements ineffective.

Boom.

The world plunged into darkness—

Sack!

Allen sacked Browning, cleanly cutting off the University of Washington's offensive opportunity with a violent and brutal blitz, forecefully pinning Browning to the ground.

Browning was left dazed and confused.

In such a storm, there wasn't even room to breathe.

First gear ten yards turned into second gear eighteen yards, instantly doubling the pressure.

What's worse, the kickoff line was originally at their own twenty-five-yard line, now it was brutally pushed back to their own seventeen-yard line. The Red Zone was not far behind, their margin for error was drastically reduced, and the situation became perilously insecure.

Pressure, unbelievable pressure.

In such a case, rather than saying the University of Washington's Offensive group lacked the explosive power which got exposed, it was more appropriate to say that the University of Alabama's Defensive group showed its dominance this season, firmly seizing the opportunity.

Second gear eighteen yards, the University of Washington tried to break through with a running play but faced a wall, getting tackled right at the kickoff line.

Third gear eighteen yards, the University of Washington tried a fake run and a real pass to advance some yards, pretending to give up on scoring and just aiming for a better punt position but were in fact still very aggressive and bold in attempting to complete the down conversion.

The play was read, however, and Browning and Ross's passing got intercepted by Foster, and the ball possession switched at the edge of the Red Zone.

Disaster. Nightmare. Chaos.

The University of Washington hadn't even managed to steady themselves when they were hit by a series of aggressive plays from the University of Alabama, leaving them disoriented and disintegrated, barely catching their breath before their footing slipped towards the abyss again.

"Touchdown!"

"Wow, touchdown."

"The University of Washington experienced a fatal lapse in coverage; their attention was completely on the side of Li Wei and Howard, and a glaring defnsive misalignment on the right allowed Alabama's Wide Receiver, Calvin Ridley, to remain completely unguarded, effortlessly catching a six-yard pass from Hertz and entering the end zone to secure the touchdown."

"The University of Washington was completely disorganized."

"At the start of the game, the University of Washington displayed absolute confidence and strength on both offense and defense, but they were unprepared for the University of Alabama's counterattack."

"In less than five minutes, the University of Washington had lost two touchdowns, and now the initiative had returned to the hands of the defending champions, the young University of Washington paying the price for their aggression and risk-taking."

"The game will be very difficult from now on."

From Li Wei's seventy-five-yard dash into the end zone to Foster's Red Zone interception followed by Hertz's fake run and true pass to Ridley for the touchdown, Crimson Tide Storm created a high point in the middle of the first quarter, showcasing the explosive power of the defending champions with a series of devastating combo punches—

The University of Washington was bewildered.

From Browning to Jones to Baker, there was a hint of confusion in their eyes.

In fact, it wasn't that they lacked confidence, quite the contrary, they were still full of confidence, they still believed they could defeat the University of Alabama, but it was because of this overconfidence that they found themselves completely lost amidst the sudden and powerful onslaught of Crimson Tide Storm, unable to adapt quickly enough.

Things weren't supposed to go this way.

So, what was going on, a nightmare? Were they waiting to wake up from this nightmare so they could take the initiative again? Could the game return to normal?

The key question now was, how could they wake up from this nightmare?

It was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

For the University of Washington, the real difficulty lay in the offense, which had been highly praised within the Pacific-12 Conference this season but was completely exposed before the Defensive group of the University of Alabama, with both their passing and running games ineffective and unable to open up the situation.

Browning was in a very embarrassing position, even he was puzzled:

How had the first wave of offense been conducted?

If they couldn't open up the situation on offense, it also meant the University of Washington had to constantly deal with the pressure of a scoring deficit, increasing the pressure on their Defensive group because they couldn't afford any mistakes, otherwise they would fall into an even worse predicament.

Moreover, since the University of Washington typically had stronger pass defense than run defense, they now had to face the multi-faceted ground attacks from Li Wei, Jacobs, and Hertz of the Crimson Tide Storm, consistently losing balance.

Little by little, they fell into a vicious cycle.

Baker, as a Safety, was also helpless, he couldn't freely change positions and defensive tactics like Jamal Adams, the Safety from Louisiana State University; he could only fret in the backfield.

Unable to defend, even though Baker was desperate to support his teammates, if they couldn't defend, they simply couldn't. He watched helplessly as the University of Washington's defensive formation was devoured and overrun, ultimately losing all advantage.

All their efforts and struggles seemed like vain flailing, even though they didn't want to admit it, everything was in vain.

"28:7".

By halftime, the defending champion had already taken a significant lead in controlling the game.

Nevertheless, Saban didn't make extensive substitutions like he did during the regular season, as this was a bowl game, not only was the opponent different, but the nature of the match was different as well; in the second half, he still kept the main lineup on the field to continue controlling the game.

However, Saban's tactics were relatively less aggressive and less risky, focusing more on consuming time to control the game, gradually pushing the University of Washington into dire straits, defeating them as if slowly boiling a frog.

The University of Washington only managed to exploit a lapse in the University of Alabama's focus to score another touchdown in the fourth quarter, but it was already too late; the game had lost all suspense and just drifted to an end.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"37:14".

The full game ended, the defending champions defeating the University of Washington effortlessly and advancing to the nationwide championship finals for the second consecutive year—

The season remained undefeated.

So, the question arises, who will the University of Alabama face in the finals?