- ABC News
- January 9, 2017
TAMPA, Fla. -- The next Alabama team that doesn't play with an edge will be the first one under Nick Saban. Or as senior linebacker Reuben Foster said, "If you don't have that edge to you, then we're probably not for you." It's a part of Alabama's DNA under Saban, part of his belief that an even remotely contented team is a defeated team, and part of the now-famed "Process" that has the Crimson Tide on the brink of their fifth national championship in the past eight years under Saban. The Tide face Clemson on Monday in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T (8 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN App). But as this matchup has neared, there's an added edginess to this Alabama team, almost a simmering anger that anybody would dare suggest that the Tigers are just the team to extinguish the Crimson Tide's 26-game winning streak. In fact, if you didn't know better, you'd almost think Alabama was the underdog. "[The media] is selling us as possible underdogs,...