Alabama had the college football world on social media acting a fool in comeback win

Overreactions happen to the best of us. It's human nature to get frustrated during the course of a game, especially when your team gets off to a bad start.

And boy oh boy did Alabama get off to a bad start in Friday night's College Football Playoff opener against Oklahoma. The Crimson Tide fell behind 17-0 early in the second quarter, and the hot takes were flying.

We'll give some grace to Alabama fans, who had every right to be frustrated, though some of the takes you all threw out were outlandish too (you know who you are).

But the biggest collection of folks who need to eat crow in the aftermath of Alabama's come-from-behind 34-24 win over Oklahoma resides in the national media. The folks who always seem to prey on Alabama's downfall. The sharks were circling during the Crimson Tide's inauspicious start in Norman, and we kept as many receipts as we could.

All the takes proven wrong after Alabama's impressive comeback win over Oklahoma

We start with what seemed like the general consensus early in the game. I won't give Kevin too hard a time - he wasn't exactly wrong. That 17-0 start with Oklahoma outgaining Alabama 181-12 was about as bad as you can get.

This is where we start to branch off into stupidity. Anyone with an Alabama platform spent the last week railing against the national media perception that Alabama fans would want Kalen DeBoer gone if the Crimson Tide lost to Oklahoma in the CFP. It took just over a quarter for a lot of folks to prove that perception right.

Disappointing.

Even more disappointing is someone with a platform like Creg's (AL.com) peddling that nonsense after the rough start. It's one thing for fans to say dumb things in the heat of the moment - I'm guilty of it too - but it's a whole different ballgame when a journalist does.

If there's a bad take to be had, you can bet Barrett Sallee is somewhere ready to fire it off.

Here we have a daily double from the self-proclaimed "America's college football insider" who sent those two tweets out when Alabama fell behind early and then... didn't tweet for the remainder of the game. At least have the decency to show back up and own your horrible takes.

Just like McMurphy, Booger McFarland fired off this tweet when Alabama was down 17-0 and then didn't say another single thing about the game. People don't even try to hide it anymore.

The beaten and battered Alabama we saw in the SEC Championship Game is not who this team is. The resilient team that battled back from the depths of defeat against Oklahoma, though? Yeah, that's who this team is.

So many folks used Alabama's bad start as fuel for their own narratives. The best rule for watching sports: don't craft wide-ranging opinions using a game that isn't over as the meat of your argument.

A lot of media members jumped at this take in the first half. Alabama falling behind 17-0 proved it didn't belong in the playoff. Do you have an update, Dan?

Nailed it, Tyler!

In year two, Kalen DeBoer has Alabama playing in the Rose Bowl. He's done just fine, actually.

We'll end with the biggest cardinal sin, particularly for someone with Nicole's platform: if you want to fire off something concrete so early in the football game, don't be a coward and delete your tweet. Stand on it. Accept the heat you are going to get as a result. You earned it.