Alabama football team quarterback Ty Simpson walked out of a 23-21 home loss to Oklahoma , battered on the stat sheet but still defiant in his belief. After taking four sacks in a defeat that dents the Crimson Tide’s College Football Playoff path, Simpson was asked how much confidence he still had.

He answered with a short line and a long message: “Very confident… that’s all I’m going to say. Gotta win out now.”

Behind that confidence, though, is a long mental checklist. Simpson admitted there are “about 10 plays” he wishes he could run again, saying that if he had those snaps back, he believes the outcome would be different.

He pointed to Oklahoma’s extra week of preparation and said the Sooners brought “some exotic stuff we hadn’t seen before,” but he also stressed that he needed t

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