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When NickSabanshattered his head-set after a false start in the final minute of the first half of Saturday's matchup against Orange Bowl, he sent a me sage.No. 1 Alabama (14-0) is angry, and you won't like them when they're angry. Nobody does, because you can't beat them. No. 4 Oklahoma (12-2) simply became the next team to find that out in a45- Rashard Higgins Jersey 34 victorythat puts the Crimson Tide in afourth straight College Football Playoff installment with No. 2 Clemson (14-0).MORE: Alabama is, too.What else can be said that hasn't been said after seeing the Crimson Tide beat the Sooners at their own game? For a team that delivered first-quarter knockouts all season, this one was more important considering the opponent.Alabama quarterback TuaTagovailoa, who finished 24 of 27 for 318yards and four touchdowns,orchestrated a three-score opening actbefore Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray completed his first pa s.Tagovailoapicked up where he left off in the Playoffwith a 50-yard pa s toDeVontaSmith on the first play from scrimmage and played the role of distributor from there. Nine different Alabama players caught a pa s including backup quarterback Jalen Hurts and seven of those receivers had a catch of 10 yards or more.The Crimson Tide brought that big-stage physicality on both sides. Anfernee Jennings pulled Murray down by the Jarvis Landry Jersey shirt on the second play from scrimmage. The defense rendered the Heisman Trophy winner into a run-first scrambler instead of a downfield-playmaker until the second half.When Joshua Jacobs barreled through Oklahoma safety Robert Barnes for a 27-yard touchdown pa s and a 28-0 lead with 13:01 left in the first half, this was over. Jacobs didn't so much run over as run through the front-page photo that will define this game.Saban, however, broke his headset at the end of the half after a false start forced a field goal instead of a touchdown. It was the difference between 35-10 and 31-10 at that point, but he was right. Oklahoma cut the lead to 31-20 in the third quarter beforeTagovailoaled an early fourth-quarter touchdown drive capped with a 10-yard touchdown pa s to Smith to put the game out of reach.It's almost as if Saban knew the Kareem Hunt Jersey Sooners would turn this into the shootout it was supposed to be in the second half. Murray finished with 308 pa sing yards and 109 rushing yards, but the Crimson Tide still won by double-digits because of that first-half punch.SPORTING NEWS BEST OF 2018That's the edge from a coach who is on the cusp of pa sing Bear Bryant with a seventh national championship but is always demanding more from a four- and five-star roster that rarely fails to live up to expectations. There is almost always something to correct.Alabama lost its first College Eric Murray Jersey Football Playoff semifinal in a 42-35 shootout against Ohio State in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. In the four semifinals since, the Crimson Tide has outscored Michigan State, Washington,Clemson and Oklahoma by a combined score of 131-47.As usual or three of the last five years Clemson is the last team standing in Alabama's way of another historical mark:the first 15-0 season since Penn in 1897. The matchup of 14-0 teams will set the standard for future College Football Playoff teams to follow. There's always a carrot for the Alabama dynasty, and that is oneSabancan use for motivation after mi sing that chance in the 2017championship game against the Tigers.There is always something to chase, and Oklahoma was simply the latest team in Alabama's way. The 28-0 start left other fan bases like Georgia, Ohio State and UCF if they were at the Orange Bowl, but it's easy to say "We want Bama"when that's a hypothetical discu sion. For what it's worth, and nearly mi sed.If youhaveto actually be on the same field with Bama, then it's different story.Just don't Joel Bitonio Jersey make them angry.We've seen the outcome on that too many times.