Alabama football - Mark Ingram suffers hip pointer

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Mark Ingram injury report

AUBURN — A rough Iron Bowl got worse for Alabama tailback Mark Ingram, who sustained a hip pointer in the fourth quarter that took him out for the end of the Crimson Tide's game-winning drive.

"I kind of got a helmet right on it and bruised it a little bit," Ingram said, "but I'll be all right."


Ingram finished Friday's 26-21 victory with only 30 yards on 16 carries, which was his lowest total since a 26-yard effort in last season's Sugar Bowl loss to Utah. He said he sustained the hip injury on a 9-yard reception on second-and-14 early in Alabama's final drive. Freshman Trent Richardson entered in his place.

"I went in to run and tried to cut on it," Ingram said, "and it just wasn't happening."

With Florida waiting a week from today in the SEC title game, Ingram now has an extra day to "rest and recover and get back to playing good football," coach Nick Saban said.

-- ARENAS' RECORD: With 67 yards on two punt returns, Javier Arenas passed Vanderbilt's Lee Nalley to break a 60-year SEC record. Arenas now has 1,725 career punt return yards to beat the 1,695 yards that Nalley tallied from 1947-49.

"It is great to get the record, but even better to win the game," Arenas said. "To go into Auburn and get the win, as a senior, and then also get the SEC punt return record will be something I can look back on after the season as something special. Records are something that you can sit back and enjoy when you are old and gray."

Nalley held the all-time NCAA record until earlier this decade, when Texas Tech's Wes Welker moved atop the list with 1,761 punt return yards, leaving Arenas 36 yards behind the current New England Patriots standout.

-- BACK-TO-BACK: With Friday's victory, Alabama joined Florida as the only teams to post back-to-back 8-0 records in SEC regular-season play since the league expanded in 1992 to 12 teams. The Gators accomplished the feat in 1995-96.

-- TIFFIN'S RECORDS: Place-kicker Leigh Tiffin set two Alabama records Friday, passing Philip Doyle for the most field goals in a career with 80 and breaking his own mark for field goals in a season with 27.

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