Alabama and Georgia have met four times since Nick Saban took over the Crimson Tide—and brought an assistant named Kirby Smart with him—in 2007. Each one of those meetings, in its own way, helped bring these two programs to Atlanta to face one another for the national title on Monday night.
We’ll start on Sept. 22, 2007, less than two months after the first iPhone was released…
2007
When John Parker Wilson scrambled for a six-yard touchdown that allowed Alabama to tie the score with 1:09 remaining, the Crimson Tide had a chance to start the Saban era 4–0.