And Nick Saban isn’t apologizing for it. Nick Saban made it clear during his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show that he is not sorry about grandstanding for Alabama to make the College Football Playoff because it is his job to support and promote his team. This was done prior to the College Football Playoff selection committee’s contentious decision to put the Alabama Crimson Tide in the playoff field over the undefeated Florida State Seminoles.
My duty and commitment are to our team, thus I did everything in my power to support our achievements—be it winning 11 straight games or whatever—and defeating the nation’s top team in Georgia, according to On3. “Compared to early in the season, we are a different team now. I’m proud of our players for how they handled it and how they performed in the SEC Championship Game. That was my duty to our players and our squad.
That being said, Saban is still sympathetic to Florida State for being left out. He’s been there before, after all.
“We’ve been the team that was left out,” Saban remarked. We finished as the fifth-place team. We therefore have a sense of familiarity with the situation, and while I regret it, many clubs this season might legitimately argue that they “should have been there.”
All that remains for Saban to do is attempt to guide his team to yet another national championship, starting with a semifinal meeting against the Georgia Bulldogs.
