Call it Netflix and second-guessing.
After Alabama’s heartbreaking 27-20 overtime loss to Michigan in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Monday, Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban had no interest in watching the other semifinal matchup featuring Washington versus Texas in the Sugar Bowl.
No, Saban instead needed something to stream, as explained by his wife, Terry, to USA Today.
“Do you want to watch the other football game?” Terry asked Saban after the Rose Bowl loss.
“Not really,” Saban replied.
Terry then said, “OK, let’s watch Netflix,” with the further description that the film the couple had been watching is “Turkish or something.”
Nick Saban and Alabama lost to Michigan in overtime. APIt’s hard to blame Saban for not wanting to watch any football after a crushing loss, especially since his Crimson Tide would not be playing the Sugar Bowl winner; Washington won, 37-31.
Alabama held a 20-13 lead with less than five minutes remaining, but Saban’s defense could not come up with the clutch stop.
J.J. McCarthy led the Wolverines on an eight-play, 75-yard drive, finding Roman Wilson from 4 yards out to tie the game with 1:34 remaining.
Nick Saban and Alabama have not won a national title since the 2020 season. APAfter Michigan scored first in overtime on a 17-yard run by Blake Corum, Alabama failed to score in notorious fashion.
A poor snap on fourth-and-goal at the Michigan 3-yard line resulted in Jalen Milroe being swarmed on his run up the middle.
The dual-threat quarterback came nowhere near the end zone, and Alabama has now gone three straight seasons without winning or competing for the national title and has won just once in the last five years.
Nick Saban’s wife, Terry. Getty Images“The fact that it didn’t work made it a really bad call,” Saban said. “We called timeout because we had a bad look. We had a good look on the first one and they must have known it.
“[Offensive coordinator] Tommy [Rees] just felt like the best thing we can do was have a quarterback run, which was our two-point play … and the ball was on the 3-yard line, which is just like a two-point play, but we didn’t get it blocked so it didn’t work. We didn’t execute it very well and it didn’t work.
“They pressured and we thought they would pressure. We felt like we could gap them, block them and make it work, but it didn’t.”
