There’s a rare moment behind the scenes of Nick Saban’s Alabama football program that remains on the internet . It’s Saban, speaking to his 2017 team moments before the national championship game against Georgia.

The man who would win that game, along with five other national titles in Tuscaloosa, was reassuring his squad about its place in the college football universe.

“This game is all about what we do,” Saban said. “It’s all about us, just like it’s been all year long.”

For nearly two decades, he was correct on a grand scale. College football was about what Alabama did.

Even in Kalen DeBoer’s first season, the center of the sport remained in Tuscaloosa. Then came the start of the 2025 campaign.

“It wasn’t about Alabama tonight,” Florida State head coach Mike Norvell said Sat

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