re: "I don't know who we're playing yet..."

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I absolutely believe it. That's the kind of stuff Saban calls "clutter"

Saban (and Urban Meyer last year) didn't know who won the earlier games in the first round of the CFB Playoffs. Saban said that he didn't know Clemson won until after the celebrations started in Dallas.

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I'm pretty sure the FSU game ended during the Alabama game. We all, Alabama and OSU fans, went NUTS. The stadium erupted. I might be able to see how a coach could ignore that stuff, but I can't imagine a player not knowing who won. There were most likely goofy members of the team dancing around, openly talking about who won the earlier game. They want to focus, but these guys aren't robots.