TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Jalen Hurts passed for three touchdowns and rushed for 68 yards to help No. 1 Alabama overcome a slow start and beat FCS team Chattanooga 31-3 on Saturday night.With the offense struggling to get going, the Crimson Tide (11-0) spotted the Mocs (8-3) the games first three points and didnt really shake them until late in the third quarter. The defense had a more Bama-like performance, and hasnt given up a touchdown in 13 quarters.Hurts was 15 of 21 for 136 yards a week after torching Mississippi State for 347 yards. He had a 47-yard TD pass to Calvin Ridley and added two 1-yarders to Gehrig Dieter, including one in the final minutes that made the score look a little closer to what most expected.Damien Harris rushed for 91 yards and a touchdown and Ridley gained 94 yards on seven catches.Alabama wide receiver ArDarius Stewart did not play in the game, but it wasnt clear if hes injured.It was a milestone win for Alabama coach Nick Saban, whose 41-5 record as the No. 1 team gives him the most of any coach. He had been tied with Ohio States Woody Hayes (40-4-1) and Florida States Bobby Bowden (40-5).Chattanoogas first-quarter field goal put Alabama behind for the first time since Kentucky scored the first three points on Oct. 1. The Mocs trailed just 14-3 until deep into the third quarter before Harris raced 25 yards for a touchdown.Alejandro Bennifield completed 16 of 21 passes for 106 yards for the Mocs, who sacked Hurts three times.Alabama wasnt exactly pushing the Mocs around early. Chattanooga stopped two runs from the 1-yard line in the second quarter before Hurts rolled right on fourth down and hit Dieter in the end zone for a 14-3 lead.That was set up by a muffed punt at the 9.THE TAKEAWAYChattanooga: Was almost even in total yards with Alabama midway through the third quarter. Didnt allow a sack to a defense that came in with the most in the nation.Alabama: It was probably the least impressive performance of the season, considering what `Bama is expected to do to FCS teams. 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He discussed his own commitment to the idea of racial justice. He was informed and laid out the very real schism that exists in our country.Nebraska football gave him that platform.In the Nebraska that I grew up in, its hard to imagine how Ivey, or teammates Mohamed Barry and DaiShon Neal, would have kept their scholarships. Even one university regent reportedly told the the Lincoln Journal Star the players should be kicked off the team, although hes since walked that comment back.This has been real life in Lincoln and a lot of other college towns; critical thinking required of the college student is rooted out of the football player. Its a contradiction that has always made an oxymoron of football scholarship.My first published piece, a letter to the Lincoln Journal, criticized funds earmarked for a new practice facility instead of needed repairs to the library. What does a fan give up to root for a team, to turn over some measure of judgment in exchange for that community in focused pursuit? Its not without cost. As Nebraska put football first, defensive lineman Christian Peter was convicted four times of assaulting four women from 1991 to 1995 while playing for the Huskers.Nebraska was where I learned that games need to be taken seriously, for what is bad and for what is good.The weekend that Kaepernick was spotted sitting during the anthem was one of those moments. Black athletes risk being lampooned, cut, excoriated and exiled for bringing their own experience of injustice into the workplace.dddddddddddd The fact that most of the NFLs fans and coaches are white while most players are black, is a dynamic that plays into this.For generations, white coaches have wanted the talent, speed and sweat of black players, but didnt have much use for their opinions. 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As it relates to social issues, outspoken celebrities have always been in the minority. However, the scope of the public conversation around police violence and access to social media are making it harder for people in the spotlight to remain silent.It was prescient.Kaepernicks actions arent out of the blue. What may be more surprising is the response from the 49ers and the NFL. San Franciscos ownership family is unique in that the team is owned by Denise DeBartolo York and run by her son Jed York.They recognize the progressive, tolerant culture of the Bay Area, and were the first NFL franchise to announce they would be applying the Rooney Rule to their own job searches at the team level.The team is coached by Chip Kelly, an unconventional coach who has publicly backed Kaepernick when directly criticized. Then there is the NFL itself, which despite flyovers at games and flags the size of football fields, said standing for the anthem was recommended, but not required.If Kaepernick played for another team in another town, he might not have found that tolerance. Once he did, the idea was out there that players have the right to protest in their own way even though many fans dislike their actions.Thats how an idea moves from the Pacific coast and inward, to more conservative towns and different climates. It reached a high school Camden, New Jersey, when coach Preston Brown and the Woodrow Wilson Tigers took a knee for the anthem. It reached Indianapolis when the entire roster of the WNBAs Fever did the same during the playoffs It has reached the womens national soccer team with Megan Rapinoe and across countless strata of American fields.Now the idea has worked its way to my hometown in Lincoln.Im not a fan of the Cornhuskers in any conventional sense. Ive been a sportswriter too long. 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