Nick Saban says big Sugar Bowl win showed Alabama 'did deserve' a better Playoff fate
Nick Saban spent plenty of time on Championship Weekend lobbying for Alabama to reach the College Football Playoff. After a dominant performance in the Sugar Bowl over Kansas State on Saturday, 45-20, Saban took up the lobbying effort once more.
At the post-game press conference, Saban said Alabama’s performance showed that it was a team that cared, and had a lot of pride in the players’ performance, and the Crimson Tide prevailed because of that. That desire started when Alabama began bowl practice, Saban said, and it showed the team had something to prove.
“I think we had a little bit of a taste in our mouth that if we had a dominant performance, it would show people that we probably did deserve to do a little better than we did in terms of the Playoff picture,” Saban said. “But at the same time, I’m proud that we came to the Sugar Bowl, proud that we won the Sugar Bowl, but I’m most proud that there was a team out there that cared.”
“I think we had a little bit of a taste in our mouth that if we had a dominant performance, it would show people that we probably did deserve to do a little better than we did in terms of the playoff picture.” – Nick Saban after Alabama’s 45-20 #SugarBowl win over Kansas State. pic.twitter.com/N9FuGWJVg8
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I disagree. 2 losses are 2 losses and the Sugar Bowl doesn’t change that. What happens with OSU later is also irrelevant.
“I think we had a little bit of a taste in our mouth that if we had a dominant performance, it would show people that we probably did deserve to do a little better than we did in terms of the Playoff picture,” Saban said. “But at the same time, I’m proud that we came to the Sugar Bowl, proud that we won the Sugar Bowl, but I’m most proud that there was a team out there that cared.”
I don’t think anyone believed Alabama wasn’t good enough to play in the playoffs. Still, why do we even play these games if records mean nothing??? Had Ohio State with 1 loss been left out. Tragedy of justice period!!!! 13-0 big 10 Michigan lost soundly to TCU!
NOW A 1 LOSS TCU PROVED THEY BELONG!!!!!
No disrespect, but where was their room for Alabama??? Be honest! Saban has grown entitled!!!! If the official just calls that safety Alabama loses to Texas without Ewers!!!! If Texas hits that extra point length FG, nearly. Texas wins anyway!!!! TEXAS A&M CAME WITHIN A HAIR. OLE MISS WAS DRIVING AND NEARLY PULLED IT OUT!!!
Where does it end???? Saban cost Alabama by not running every tic off the clock before trying that last field goal!!!! LSU? Maybe a better defensive call or execution at the end? Either way, Alabama lost fair and square both times!!!!!
PS. Bad coaching job this season Nick it’s mostly on YOU!!!!! Those coordinators take orders from you and YOU HIRED THEM!!!! Stop crying!!!!!
OTHERWISE CONGRATULATIONS FOR A GREAT WIN!!!!
Negan
New year, same ole p e d o p h i l e! Dang dude, i thought you would try to change this year but I’ve already heard you started 2023 like you ended 2022, f u c k i n g children! Hey you lonely, no friend having, child f u c k e r leave the kids alone! Get ready for a full year of this you piece of s h i t!
Quit whining Saban.
Good grief Saban, you had two losses. Until the playoffs expand that means you are out.
Huepel isn’t going on tv whining about going to the Orange Bowl. Suck it up buttercup
Im not saying he’s right but he wasn’t blown out(south Carolina game) or dominated (UGA game) like Tennessee.
I’m not saying Tennessee deserved to be there either (but we did beat Bama which is supposed to factor in these things)
The point is that he’s got a two loss team and this is the system we have. Stop whining, it’s over.
South Carolina just scored again! LMAO
Bama had no business being in the discussion.
If they were going to take a 2-loss team, it should have been Tennessee anyway.
We beat you guys head up and were much better statistically all year against a tougher schedule.
Alabama fans keep pointing to the South Carolina game as justification for their being ranked ahead of us but Bama could easily have lost at least two more games.
Let it go.
UT is the one that has no business in anyone’s conversation.
Bahahahaha, this has to be an 8 year old that wrote this. At least that’s the education level of Volman
If Michigan beats TCU (who lost to Kansas State) (or vice versa) by the same margin as Alabama whipped Kansas State & Georgia beats Ohio State (Who lost to Michigan) also in the same manner…
I have issues with the College Football Playoff Committee!
#RollTide #PourMeSomeSugar #SomethingFishy
I just don’t think they deserved to be there this season. I think they are ranked correctly.
What do you want him to say? We shouldn’t be there but other teams should? What kind of message does that send to the locker room? He’s not paid to be impartial, he’s paid to do the best he can for his team.
BamaHeel…..Saban is paid to coach his football team, not whine about being left out of the playoffs. Long after the playoffs were decided!!!!!! Saban is with his own success!!!!!
PS. A great win over k State does not make a playoff team!!!
Negan
So if it was Coach Bowlcut then he would be whining? I doubt you would have the same opinion. GFY mouth breather.
This just in: “a coach says his team deserved a better ranking”, “our team cared”, “we had to earn back respect”.
Really?
Wonder if the comments would have been the same if Young and Campbell opted out? Or if Bama hadn’t purchased insurance policies on both of them?
Bama was right where they belong. In the Sugar Bowl. Two losses will not get you in the current four team playoff.
With that being said, not participating in the CFP was disappointing. The Sugar Bowl is the best bowl outside the CFP and beating Big XII champion Kansas St convincingly was a good win.
Bama, and other teams, buy insurance policies for players with NFL grades every post season, whether it is a playoff game or not.
It has been a strange season. 4 games decided on the last play of the game. Had Bryce not gotten injured Bama is probably in the playoff. Part of the game and Bama proved they were correctly placed in the Sugar Bowl over Tennessee. On to 2023.