Thomas Castellanos stands 5 feet, 11 inches tall, but he’s planted atop a mile of moxie. From that perch, the Florida State quarterback boldly boasted this summer that the Alabama Crimson Tide don’t have Nick Saban to "save them" anymore, and that Alabama’s defense didn’t stand a chance of stopping him.
He told no lies. In fact, he might have undersold it.
Alabama had no Saban, no ferocity and none of that "hard edge" – whatever that means – that we heard about in the preseason.
Castellanos and his companions made minced meat of a defense Saban once made the most feared in the land.
I thought Castellanos had been wrong to poke the bear, but I was wrong. The bear doesn’t reside in Tuscaloosa anymore. What’s left is a 31-17 loser to Florida State.
