- ABC News
- October 10, 2021
Host Texas A&M shocked Alabama on Saturday night, beating the top-ranked Crimson Tide 41-38 thanks to a walk-off field goal by Seth Small. The Aggies' win broke Alabama's streak of 100 consecutive wins against unranked opponents, the longest streak in the AP poll era. The Crimson Tide came into Saturday having won 19 straight games. Alabama coach Nick Saban said that while the loss itself was disappointing, it doesn't mean that the team's goals are no longer achievable. "Hopefully we'll learn a lot from this," he said. "We still can accomplish everything we want to accomplish, but we have to do things better than we did tonight. We have to play better, we have to be more consistent, we have to finish drives, we have to get more turnovers on defense, we have to get more stops on defense. There are a lot of things we need to fix." Throughout the course of his postgame news conference, Saban returned to the theme of a lack of execution in all three...