Alabama begins the 2013 season with a 14-game winning streak away from Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Under head coach Nick Saban, the Crimson Tide has held opponents to 10 points or fewer 40 times since the start of the 2007 season and seven times in 2012, with the most recent coming on Nov. 24 against Auburn (49-0). The Tide also shut out four 2012 opponents

Alabama has been dominant in season openers under head coach Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide is a perfect 6-0 under Saban and has won in impressive fashion. Alabama has outscored its opponents, 257- 64, in those games and outgained the opposition, 2996-1124. The Tide has averaged 42.8 points per opening game under Saban and given up just 10.6 points per contest. Alabama has amassed 499.3 total yards per opener and surrendered just 187.3 yards per clip.

Alabama has had more draft picks over the last
four years (29), three years (22) and two years (17) than any school in the country

Alabama begins the 2013 season in a familiar place
atop the Associated Press College Football Poll. It is the sixth straight season for the Crimson
Tide to make an appearance at No. 1. The Tide is just the second team in the era of the AP
poll to appear at No. 1 for five years, much less six. Alabama’s streak began in 2008 and has
seen the Crimson Tide finish first in the final AP in three of the past five years. Miami (Fla.)
holds the record for consecutive seasons with at least one week at No. 1 with seven, appearing
each year from 1986-92.

Dating back to the start of the 2008 season, Alabama has won 61 games, which is the most in the Football Bowl Subdivision for BCS Conference teams.