In the third quarter of Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship, Alabama failed to convert a fake field goal on a fourth-and-six while trailing 31-16.
After the game, coach Nick Saban acknowledged that he did the wrong thing by going for the fake instead of kicking the 39-year-field goal.
"We thought we had a really, really good fake, and somebody didn't block a guy they were supposed to block, and so it didn't work," Saban said according to Joel Anderson of ESPN.com. "So it was a bad call. It's always that way."
The Crimson Tide had holder and backup quarterback Mac Jones try to run for the first down with kicker Joseph Bulovas functioning as his lead blocker.