Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer wants his players to remember what happened when the Crimson Tide played Oklahoma last season.

Sooners coach Brent Venables hopes his team carries over the lessons of that game without dwelling on the result.

No. 11 Oklahoma and No. 4 Alabama square off Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and the significance in the College Football Playoff picture is clear.

For the Crimson Tide (8-1, 6-0 SEC) the game offers a chance to clinch a spot in the SEC Championship Game, solidify a place in the College Football Playoff and earn some level of revenge from last season's loss at Oklahoma.

"We have a lot of new players on the team, so there are players that didn't experience that," DeBoer said of the 24-3 loss in Norman last season. "The ones that did certainly better remembe

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