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You keep saying that we looked bad the first 4 min....lol...we were only down 6 point...Look at it when we played Auburn we were down 14 point in the first few min. The game ain't over till the fat lady sings.

On top of that THE reason McElory didn't or couldn't pass but for 58 yards was he had broke or cracked ribs.

Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy kept his record as a high school and college football quarterback perfect -- now 30-0 -- by leading the Crimson Tide to a 37-21 victory over Texas on Thursday night for the national championship.

But he completed only 6-of-11 passes for 58 yards, and he was sacked five times.

It turns out any one of those sacks could have knocked him out of the game, as his counterpart -- Texas star senior quarterback Colt McCoy -- was early in the first quarter.

McElroy reportedly was playing with cracked ribs.

"It's bad," he said outside the locker room, according to an ESPN.com report. "I got it numbed up before the game and it was killing me at halftime."

He supposedly suffered the injury during the third quarter of the Tide's 32-13 victory over Florida on Dec. 5 in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game.

He has been in considerable pain since then, and he played despite great pain Thursday night.

He wore a flak jacket and protected the ribs more with extra padding.



Remember Sabine at the beginning of the games did say who would be our backup Q'back if McElory got hurt.