“The last two games, I’d put both those in the same category. We didn’t play as well as a team. You all (reporters) don’t think so because we won one and we lost the other one. If we’d have won this one, you wouldn’t have been concerned now either. I was concerned then.

“You all live in the results world out there. We kind of live in the process world. It’s hard to get people to respond. It’s kind of a Bluegrass Miracle phenomenon. You play bad, you win the game. Then the next week you get your (butt) kicked because nobody responded to playing bad because you won. You won the Bluegrass Miracle.”

– Alabama head coach Nick Saban, after his No. 1-ranked team lost to Texas A&M Saturday and likely cost itself a national championship shot.