Alexander embraced Pflugner in support as the kicker left the field. That would be like me fumbling on the last play of the game. It's a game of inches. Sometimes it falls for you, and sometimes it doesn't. We're still really proud of this team.
Life goes on.
We'll be all right. The senior tailback, just the second player in school history to run for more than 3,000 in his career, set a Crimson Tide bowl record for rushing TDs in a game. He fell 5 yards short of the school's rushing mark of 166 set by Sherman Williams in the 1995 Citrus Bowl. Alexander's 50-yard TD run is the longest against Michigan in a bowl game, eclipsing the previous long of 46 yards by Alexander in the Outback Bowl three years ago. The big players for each team came to play and came through in the clutch.