We’re just days from Tennessee football and Alabama meeting on the gridiron for the Vols’ second true road game of the year. Ahead of the real-life meeting, I fired up the College Football 26 video game to simulate the matchup in Tuscaloosa.
The result was a lopsided win for Alabama at home. We’ll see how accurate the video game version is when UT meets the Tide on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET in Bryant-Denny Stadium. The game will air on ABC.
Here are the full results and stats of the simulation:
I was asked about the settings I use for the simulations. My game is on Heisman difficulty with 15-minute quarters, no accelerated clock and even teams ‘off’. I put the correct team at home and match the time of the game up to the best choice possible. I don’t control either team, bench players we know will be inactive and then let it play out once and the results are as follows.
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Score:
Tennessee – 10
Alabama – 48
Scoring Summary:
1Q
(Bama) Ryan Williams 4-yd run, 7:05, 0-7
(Bama) Conor Talty 46-yd FG, 0:02, 0-10
2Q
(Tenn) Max Gilbert 28-yd FG, 11:26, 3-10
(Bama) Isaiah Horton 8-yd pass from Ty Simpson, 8:36, 3-17
(Bama) Ryan Williams 3-yd pass from Ty Simpson, 0:52, 3-24
3Q
(Bama) Ryan Williams 22-yd pass from Ty Simpson, 13:14, 3-31
(Bama) Richard Young 20-yd run, 3:58, 3-38
(Tenn) Star Thomas 1-yd run, 0:00, 10-38
4Q
(Bama) Conor Talty 33-yd FG, 4:24, 10-41
(Bama) Dre Washington 2-yd run, 0:38, 10-48
Team Stats:
Total Offense…
Tenn – 345
Bama – 433
Rushes | Yards | TD…
Tenn – 34 | 110 | 1
Bama – 40 | 216 | 3
Comp | Att | TD…
Tenn – 22 | 49 | 0
Bama – 18 | 32 | 3
Passing Yards…
Tenn – 235
Bama – 217
Player Stats:
Passing…
(Tenn) J. Aguilar – 22/49, 235 yd, 0 TD, 4 INT
(Bama) T. Simpson – 18/32, 217 yd, 3 TD, 1 INT
Rushing…
(Tenn) S. Thomas – 15 att, 102 yd, 1 TD
(Tenn) J. Aguilar – 15 att, 5 yd
(Tenn) P. Lewis – 3 att, 1 yd
(Tenn) D. Bishop – 1 att, 2 yd
(Bama) J. Miller – 18 att, 174 yd, 1 fumble
(Bama) R. Young – 12 att, 39 yd, 1 TD
(Bama) T. Simpson – 8 att, -4 yd
(Bama) D. Washington – 1 att, 3 yd, 1 TD
(Bama) R. Williams – 1 att, 4 yd, 1 TD
Receiving…
(Tenn) C. Brazzell – 11 rec, 105 yd
(Tenn) B. Staley – 5 rec, 78 yd
(Tenn) M. Matthews – 3 rec, 32 yd
(Tenn) M. Kitselman – 2 rec, 20 yd
(Tenn) S. Thomas 1 rec, 0 yd
(Bama) R. Williams – 8 rec, 91 yd, 2 TD
(Bama) I. Horton – 5 rec, 91 yd, 1 TD
(Bama) G. Bernard – 3 rec, 25 yd
(Bama) J. Cuevas – 1 rec, 4 yd
(Bama) R. Young – 1 rec, 6 yd
Defense…
(Tenn) J. Telander – 10 tackles, 7 solo, 1 FF
(Tenn) J. Moi – 7 tackles, 4 solo, 2 TFL
(Tenn) J. Josephs – 5 tackles, 5 solo, 2 TFL, 2 sacks
(Tenn) C. Hood – 2 tackles, 1 solo, 1 TFL, 0.5 sacks, 1 INT
(Tenn) D. Bailey – 4 tackles, 3 solo, 1 TFL, 0.5 sacks
(Bama) B. Hubbard – 10 tackles, 9 solo
(Bama) I. Faga – 4 tackles, 2 solo, 3 TFL, 1 sack
(Bama) L. Overton – 4 tackles, 3 solo, 1 sack
(Bama) N. Hill-Green – 3 tackles, 3 solo, 1 INT
(Bama) D. Jones – 4 tackles, 4 solo, 1 INT
(Bama) Z. Brown – 2 tackles, 2 solo, 1 INT
(Bama) K. Sabb – 6 tackles, 5 solo, 1 INT
