By: Larry Burton
A question I get from time to time is, “If Nick Saban is so great, why has he had just one undefeated season?” The answer can be complex or simple, take your pick.
The simple reason is that Alabama plays in the SEC, the home of hard knocking, big boy football, where the last place team on your SEC schedule can still give you a game, some injuries and a bruised up team. It’s not like most other conferences where you have Snow White and the eleven dwarfs.
It’s a league that you may make it through undefeated, only to face teams that don’t enter the post season all beaten up and almost all used up.