- ABC News
- October 8, 2023
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- It was one of those vintage Nick Saban moments -- a winning Alabama locker room that, to some, might have sounded more like a losing one. But not to his players. "We gotta clean it up, and he's going to let us know that no matter what the scoreboard says," senior receiver Jermaine Burton said. "That's our standard -- Alabama's standard." That standard was good enough Saturday to earn Alabama its biggest victory of the season, a 26-20 mistake-filled win over Texas A&M in the most hostile of environments before a packed house at Kyle Field. Down deep, Saban was proud of his team's steely resolve to somehow overcome 14 penalties, a touchdown called back after Chris Braswell returned a blocked field goal attempt and the mismanagement of the clock at the end of the game. "This may be the record game for me in terms of messing up and still winning, if you take the mess-ups and the penalties and add them up altogether,"...