TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The theme song for Hawaii Five-0 echoed throughout the Bryant-Denny Stadium bowl after Alabama’s third offensive touchdown of the day. The top-ranked Crimson Tide’s quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa, had just broken a school single-season record to increase the Alabama lead over the visiting Citadel Bulldogs to 30-0 on Saturday afternoon.

With a 68-yard scoring pass to tight end Irv Smith Jr., Tagovailoa scored his 31st passing touchdown of the season, surpassing AJ McCarron (30) during the 2012 season for the UA single-season record. Tagovailoa, a true sophomore, accomplished the feat in 10 and three-quarter games.

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“A lot of credit does belong to my teammates,” Tagovailoa said after the game. “It’s a tremendous opportunity that we’ve done as an offense to have got to this point. Thirty-one touchdowns, that’s cool. But we’ve still got another game to finish off this season, and we’ve still got another game after that, too. We’re more focused on finishing off the season the right way.”

Tagovailoa’s final stat line was 340 yards and four total touchdowns on 18-of-22 passing against The Citadel. With those 340 yards, he has now thrown for 2,865 yards this season, which ranks No. 6 on the UA single-season passing yards list. McCarron (2012) is fifth with 2,933 yards.

Tagovailoa is also responsible for 35 touchdowns this season (31 passing, 4 rushing). The total moves him into a tie for second place with Blake Sims, who had 35 (28, 7) in 2014. Jalen Hurts holds the single-season touchdown responsibility record with 36 (23, 13) in 2016. Tagovailoa is sixth on the career touchdown responsibility list with 48 (42, 6) in only 20 career games.

Tagovailoa has directed 88 drives as the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback this season with 52 resulting in touchdowns (59.1 percent) and seven culminating in field goals for 59 total scoring drives (67.0 percent). In those drives, the Crimson Tide offense is 41-for-69 (59.4 percent) on third down conversions, accounting for 4,239 yards on 481 snaps for an average of 8.81 yards per play and 386 of the 491 points scored by the Alabama offense.

“I wasn’t informed of that, so I guess I have to react to it right now,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said. “Look, AJ McCarron was a fantastic player for us here and a three-year starter and won a couple championships, I think. So, his accomplishments will always be appreciated. But it’s always nice to see our players who are performing well get recognized for what they do.

“Tua’s had a really good year, and we’re excited for him that he’s set a record or broke a record or whatever. But I’m sure the first thing he would tell you if it wasn’t for his teammates, he wouldn’t have the opportunity to do that. I think it’s something that we all share, that the whole offense should share in terms of the quality job that the offensive line does and the receivers and everybody involved.”

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