Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher gets a second top five opponent in three weeks when the Aggies travel to Alabama on Saturday for the 3:30 p.m. ET game against Alabama on CBS.

Fisher said on Wednesday that the ability to change things up on the Crimson Tide defense is especially important.

“It’s very demanding, but that’s the way our offense is designed,” he said. “They do a great job and it’s tough going up against that.”

That strategy may be a lost art in college football, Fisher said.

“The faster you go, the more you lose there,” he said. “You can do it but then you lose the ability to go fast if you do that.”

Fisher was asked about playing for Terry Bowden, which he did at Salem College in West Virginia, and later at Samford.

“He’s phenomenal,” Fisher said. “I loved playing for him, coaching for him. We were No. 1 in the country … He is phenomenal … He was a lawyer, decided to be a college coach, that was the only dumb thing he ever did.”

Fisher said Alabama’s defense lost some key guys, but they have more, and they’re physical and well coached.

“What they do well is relate the backend and the front end,” Fisher said. “I don’t say there isn’t much of a difference but he does a good of a job as anyone back there … They challenge you so much, physically because of the players, but mentally thanks to coaching.”

On the Clemson game, Fisher said his team got hit in the mount, but never folded.

“If that happens again, we can do it again,” he said. “We will play for 60 minutes, now we made mistakes … hopefully we learned from those and it will help us this weekend.”

Fisher said Alabama and Clemson are completely different style wise, but the players are very similar.

He doesn’t point to Alabama when building his program, but everyone knows Alabama is at the top.

“We have to worry about ourselves but we pull clips as examples of what to do,” Fisher said.

Fisher said he recruited every one of Alabama’s wide receivers and they are more experienced and have confidence in their play.

“They are all dynamic playmakers,” he said.