Moore, who had an emotional outburst after the Vanderbilt loss that he later apologized for, knew what this loss meant. He knew that upholding the "Alabama standard" this season as so many players love to parrot was dead.

Kalen DeBoer and Co.'s mediocre 24-17 performance over Tennessee instantly became a topic that unleashed the bubbling rage of Bama fans over the last 3 weeks. All the pent-up anger from their sore loss to Vanderbilt did not get an outlet as DeBoer and Bama got lucky with a hair's-breadth 25-27 close win over South Carolina last week.