Nick Saban offers candid remarks about lost down: ‘I got hot on that one’
By Keith Farner
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Nick Saban was fired up with the officials after Alabama appeared to lose a down in the 2nd half of Alabama’s 24-10 win over Ole Miss. That’s what caused Alabama to kick a field goal on 3rd down.
“I got hot about that one. Most of the time, the guy who marks the ball will signal first down,” Saban said. “He came and marked the ball, and it looked short. We assumed it was short. We called a QB sneak, which lost us a down. … the chains didn’t move until we were snapping the ball. … When stuff like that happens, the football gods aren’t with you.”
The win meant Saban improved to 5-0 against Lane Kiffin, and 4 of the wins have come with Kiffin at Ole Miss.
Overall, it was Alabama’s 8th straight win over Ole Miss, and it was a bounce-back victory as the Tide’s 8-year streak in the AP Poll’s top 10 ended this week.
The Crimson Tide (3-1) scored 18 points in a 14-minute span — one more than the team had against South Florida last weekend — as Alabama corrected an uneven start by halftime and cruised.
H/T Chase Goodbread.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
