Maybe the game would have been closer (less than double digits) at the end had there been no fumble recovery and score by Alabama on the 4th and goal play. I could have felt good about single digit loss. Alas' we will never know. I don't feel like the right play was called. I'll tell you why.
My wife and I enjoy going to yard sales. One Saturday morning we were at a yard sale in Alcoa, and we found a shoe box filled with a video game system and several games. It was a Sega Genesis, and I was able to buy the whole box for $10. One of the games in the box was Bill Walsh College Football. Since buying that, my wife and I generally play a few games of football before bed, and I always play with the Vols. My favorite plays on that game are called student body left and student body right. She can never stop it. After studying the video of the 4th and goal play, I feel if we had ran student body left, our running back could have walked in for a touchdown. Whether Guarantano had gone low or over the top wasn't going to matter, that play was blown up from the beginning.