- ABC News
- November 13, 2022
OXFORD, Miss. -- Still reeling after a heartbreaking loss at LSU and officially eliminated from reaching the SEC Championship, Alabama didn't fold up shop on the road at Ole Miss on Saturday. The Crimson Tide instead came back from a double-digit deficit and hung on late to beat the Rebels 30-24. A proud coach Nick Saban told reporters afterward, "It was a tough night in a lot of ways, but a great night for us because I think we took a step in the right direction as a football team." Alabama avoided snapping its 184-game streak without losing consecutive regular-season games. The streak, which dated back to Saban's first season at Alabama in 2007, is the longest such active streak in college football and the longest since Oklahoma went 256 games from 1999 to 2020. Saban said he challenged his team before the game to "play to the standard" and "take it personal." "I think that's the big thing that we wanted to get our players to do is, you're responsible...