Alabama's players answered emphatically to begin the third quarter, and the Crimson Tide rallied to knock off Tennessee.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — There were fewer than four minutes on the game clock, was putting the finishing touches on a and a haze was building inside Bryant-Denny Stadium. Soon after, the smell of cigars filled the air. Nick Saban doesn’t enjoy smoking, but he participated in his own way. Advertisement “Well, I’ll chew on one for a while,” Saban said to CBS reporter Jenny Dell before he walked off smiling with the cigar in his mouth as a laughing remained in the frame.
Is this team consistent? No. Is this a championship team? It could be. Almost every Saban-era team, obviously the championship ones, could answer those three questions with a definitive yes. This team cannot and isn’t like past Saban teams in a lot of ways, but there’s one common trait — responding to adverse situations. That has led to a six-game winning streak, with five of those games featuring deficits or one-score finishes.