While his teammates, perhaps, overheated from too much hype leading into last year’s “Game of the Century” against LSU, Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron served as the resident “Grumpy Gus.” Then a sophomore who was about to make his ninth career start, McCarron was, by design, icy cold. He pushed back the natural emotions that come with playing in a game of that magnitude and forced a scowl. Even after he completed a 22-yard pass to Trent Richardson on the game’s second play, McCarron’s mood hadn’t changed.
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