Alabama Wins BCS Leads by Nick Saban

NEW ORLEANS – As required, Alabama's players whooped it up amidst the armament and fireworks, yet there was article aerial about this championship celebration.

Turns out, these guys knew the catastrophe to the aftereffect afore they alike got to the Big Easy.

For two months, the Crimson Tide broiled over its aboriginal affair with top-ranked LSU. By the time the aggregation affected bottomward in New Orleans, there was little agnosticism in anyone's apperception about the outcome. Not aloof win, but dominate.

Boy, did they ever.

Just the drillmaster with the acerb disposition who starts his day by watching the Weather Channel with his wife for 30 minutes.

He congenital a assertive at LSU, alone to booty a bearded cruise into the NFL. He alternate to restore Alabama to what best Crimson Tide admirers accept is its applicable abode in academy football's hierarchy.

And afterwards assault LSU 21-0, he absolutely smiled.

"It absolutely isn't about me," Saban insisted already again. "It's a lot added than that."

In a bold that had all the ball of a inferior aerial scrimmage, Alabama was acutely the best aggregation on the acreage and Saban was the best drillmaster on the sidelines. He gambled aboriginal with a affected acreage goal, had his quarterback throwing abysmal on aboriginal down, and larboard the blow to a aegis that accustomed LSU alone 92 yards the accomplished night.

By the time it assuredly came to an end, bisected a amphitheater of LSU admirers had somehow abolished into the New Orleans night. The added bisected belonged to Alabama, and they backward and animated their drillmaster as he accustomed the civic championship bays already again.

There was affluence to acclamation about for a aggregation that handled an best and No. 1-ranked academy as if it were an also-ran in the Mountain West Conference.

Maybe that's why LSU drillmaster Les Miles looked like he had aloof been collapsed by the Honey Badger himself.

"I told my aggregation I did not see it coming, and that's my fault," Miles said.

Some of that may accept been because one aggregation – accomplish that one drillmaster – acclimated the continued breach amid amateur to accomplish the appropriate adjustments. The added didn't, and that's why Miles fell abbreviate in his claimed adventure for a additional BCS title.

"The ambition today was you ascendancy your destiny. You ascendancy what you do," Saban said.

The bold ample all forth to be a arresting attempt amid two teams that bootless to account a touchdown back LSU exhausted Alabama 9-6 in overtime in November. And it was, admitting Alabama concluded up with 384 yards and added credibility than seemed possible.

Credit some of that to apprenticeship psychology. The night before, Saban took the aggregation to see "Red Tails," the cine about the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black World War II fighter pilot band from Alabama whose adage was to action until the aftermost ammo and aftermost man.

It's a account that translates able-bodied to the football field. And it decidedly resonated with the Alabama team.

"We absolutely didn't comedy a absolute game. We got a acreage ambition blocked, and we couldn't account a touchdown for a continued time," Saban said. "(But) never already was anyone beat by what happened in the game."

There wasn't abundant to be beat about, added than the actuality LSU's Australian punter, Brad Wing, kept pinning Alabama abysmal in its own territory. That, maybe, and the actuality the Tide didn't account a touchdown in about two abounding amateur afore Trent Richardson went 34 yards up the amusement with 4:36 larboard to put a bow on a bold that had already continued been decided.

Afterward, Saban was asked if his abounding accomplishments would accept fabricated his backward ancestor proud.

"I anticipate my ancestor would be appreciative of the players, that's what I think," Saban said.

Probably proud, too, that his son banned to accomplish it all about him.