2011 LSU player asked about the Alabama rematch on Reddit

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"We were all brought into our big team meeting room where we had ESPN playing on the screen. They were going to announce who we were playing. There were ESPN cameras all over the room, and at Bama and (I assume) OKState. They were to get our reactions. They announced it and I swear you could have heard a pin drop. We all WANTED to play Oklahoma State. But, I remember Miles standing up and basically telling all of us that we were about to be on camera and to get hyped for playing the second best team in the country (or something like that). So we get a signal from the camera and we all go crazy. Extremely excited, jumping around, clapping, etc. There was about a 30-second delay and we saw our reaction on the big screen. I just remember thinking how interesting it would have been had they just started filming instantly."

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"Halftime was bizarre. I remember suggesting to some people that we come out in a five-wide formation, Lee in at QB and air it out for an entire drive. Even if it was three straight incompletions. Saban doesn’t respond that well to instant change, and that’s why we beat him the first time. Miles thought the reason we beat him the first time was because Jordan was an athlete and ran the ball a lot and froze the linebackers. The true part of that statement is freezing those big backers. They didn’t know what was happening because they didn’t spend a lot of practice time on it.
By the time the Natty rolled around.... we just decided to do the same exact shite. Expecting Saban wouldn’t be prepared. Boggles my mind to this day."

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