TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Earlier this week, Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace raised some eyebrows in both College Station and Tuscaloosa with some remarks about Ole Miss' wide receivers being better than Texas A&M's, and Alabama's cornerbacks being off their normal standard.
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The remarks were more of a call-out of Aggies receiver Mike Evans than anyone, but as players will do, the Crimson Tide players took offense, according to nearly every one of them that was made available to the media Saturday night. They responded with a shutout of one of the SEC's most prolific offenses, the first time a Hugh Freeze-coached team had suffered a shutout at the college level.
Wallace, however, wasn't thrilled about the way his comments earlier in the week were portrayed.
"I think that was a story created by somebody who wanted to create a story," Wallace said. "That was something that maybe I shouldn't have said, that could be twisted around, but that wasn't a story."
For UA, however, it was more than enough.
"Really we felt as if he was calling us out, saying he can score points on us and calling out our DBs and things like that so we really took it to heart and we really had to show it," said defensive end Jeoffrey Pagan.
Added linebacker C.J. Mosley: "We really wanted to stay in the game the whole time, especially after all the talking they did. We didn't want to pay attention to it, but we still heard it. For us to leave a zero on the board did a lot of talking for us on the field. When somebody keeps talking in your home stadium, you're going to fight back and going to put a little bit extra into that game, into that play."
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