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Impressive win from Texas A&M, former #1 Alabama goes down making Nick Saban 24-1 against former assistant coaches.

This most recent Saturday October 9th the #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide took on the unranked Texas A&M Aggies as a part of the Saturday college football schedule. After a first half of football Alabama the football powerhouse was trailing 24-10.

When most college football fans saw Bama was trailing at half mostly nobody was concerned because Bama was supposedly the better team by far. However the Aggies had nothing else in mind, they fought and clawed against the best team. in the nation for the whole second half.

Their efforts paid off when the Aggies got a chance to win on a last second 38 yard field goal. As the game closes the ball floats through the uprights and they upset Alabama. The college football world was in shock as the “unbeatable” Bama team was defeated.

This loss broke several running streaks for the football powerhouse and their historic head coach Nick Saban. Alabama was currently on a 19 game winning streak before the game coming off a National Championship the year prior. Before this loss Coach Saban was 24-0 against his former assistant coaches.

The last streak that was broken after the loss for Alabama was the last 100 games Bama played against an unranked opponent they had won.

This upset is very important to the general public and the football community because it shows that even a football giant can lose. Sort of a David and Goliath story. Local Morningside student Spencer Grage was quoted in saying, “It was very impressive to see Texas A&M win that game, everyone I know thought that Bama was going to win. As for Alabama, the way the college football playoffs is set up it will be very hard for them to squeeze into the playoff now with that loss.”

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32371065/the-numbers-alabama-crimson-tide-upset-loss-unranked-texas-am
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/alabama-loss-texas-am-numbers-streaks/ve3x6l9ox4e01om8d5e7y28zj
https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2021/10/what-nick-saban-said-after-alabamas-upset-loss-to-texas-am.html

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