ATLANTA — D. J. Fluker, Alabama’s right tackle, bounded off the field in the third quarter Saturday and shouted to anyone on the sideline who would listen, “Keep running that play right; keep running that play right.”

It was a zone running play designed for the 220-pound running back Eddie Lacy. Fluker would get into the body of Georgia’s 358-pound nose tackle, John Jenkins, and then right guard Anthony Steen would plow into Jenkins’s exposed side and move him out of the gap.

Lacy seemed to have free access into the second level of the Georgia defense. He went for 32 yards on one carry and then 15 on another, then 14. Lacy rushed for 181 yards in the 32-28 win over Georgia in the Southeastern Conference championship game, and many of them came over the right side, which was supposed to be the weaker of the two sides of the Alabama line.

“Everybody questioned the right side,” said Fluker, a 6-foot-6, 335-pound junior from Foley, Ala. “They said the right side was the weak side.”