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Tommy Rees ripped on social media following Alabama’s questionable OT play call

Sydney Hunte

By Sydney Hunte

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Tommy Rees is feeling the heat from Alabama fans — and plenty of criticism from college football fans as a whole — for a puzzling play call on the final play of the Crimson Tide’s 27-20 overtime loss in the Rose Bowl.

Michigan needed just 2 plays to get it into the end zone as it received the ball 1st in the extra session. Alabama then worked it to a 4th-and-goal on the 3 yard line, but elected to call for a quarterback run up the middle that was almost immediately stopped by Michigan’s D.

For an offensive line that had been chewed apart by the Wolverines’ defensive front all night (Michigan ended the evening with 6 sacks), it was certainly a headscratcher, especially after plenty of time to think about it after a series of timeouts.

And, as a result, Alabama is headed home while Michigan is in the College Football Playoff national championship game for the first time in program history after losing back-to-back semifinals. It now awaits the winner of Texas-Washington’s Sugar Bowl semifinal.

Take a look at some of the reaction to Rees’s playcall:

 

Sydney Hunte

Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.

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