Alabama football head coach Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide face a daunting offense that last year averaged 544.8 yards per game. The central figure, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Lamar Jackson left a year early for the NFL.
Alabama is 2-1 all-time against Louisville. The last contest was the 1991 Fiesta Bowl featuring a white-hot quarterback Browning Nagle smoking the Crimson Tide for 451 yards and three touchdowns.
Petrino and Saban will match wits Saturday night in Camping World Stadium in Orlando. Alabama football rolls into the Magic Kingdom as the number one team in the country. Louisville enters the contest as a Top 40 squad.