As Alabama readies for its final SEC home game against No. 11 Oklahoma this Saturday, defensive coordinator Kane Wommack finds himself revisiting an old wound. The matchup pits him once again against offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle, the same coach whose offense carved up Wommack’s unit in the New Orleans Bowl two years ago.

“We got our ass kicked is what happened. I appreciate you bringing that up. I needed a little edge this morning,” Wommack said in Monday’s press conference. “I feel like we have faced this offense and this system a number of times over the years, and I think they do a great job, just, schematically.”

That 2022 New Orleans Bowl defeat remains one of the toughest of Wommack’s coaching career. Arbuckle’s up-tempo, air-raid system relentlessly picked them apart, as Aus

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