“I just try to take advantage of every opportunity they give me,” White said. “It was a great win for my team. I’m just glad to contribute.”
It was White, not Cooper, who held onto the ball to secure a good enough field position for place kicker Adam Griffith to make the 27-yard field goal that sent the game into overtime.
“No pressure,” White said. “We do it every day. We do a situation every day in practice, so we just tried to execute what we had called.”
It was White, not Cooper, who made the game-winning touchdown grab in overtime.
“We practice two-minute [drill] a lot,” Cooper said. “At Ole Miss, we had an interception, but we were moving the ball. We’re very efficient in two-minute in my opinion.”
The two-minute drill happened with 50 seconds left and was the most efficient the offense had been until overtime. On the scoring drive in overtime, quarterback Blake Sims went two for two, and Alabama rushed four times between passes.
Sims threw a career-high 46 attempts in the game, 28 of which were in the first half.
“They were playing a lot of man-to-man, a lot of close coverage,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “We threw a lot of balls in the first half trying to get them over the top, but none of them really did.”
White was targeted 12 times in the game. He had three receptions for 36 yards, good for third on the team. His first catch was on the first play of the game, good for 14 yards and a first down.
This season, he has spent more time on the bench than planned with a shoulder injury and a foot injury. Despite the injuries, he is second on the team in receiving yards with 279. He has two touchdown receptions on the year – both game winners. The first was against Arkansas to take the final lead.
“We just knew this is our season,” White said. “We have to step it up and execute. We know LSU is a good team – a good defensive team – and we had to see what champions are made of.”
