Saban: I really didn't do any politicking, the networks asked me to come on and I did

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Q: How strange was it last night doing a little politicking, calling in to ESPN? And what into that decision to do that?

Saban: “Well, they asked me to do it. I didn’t politic to do it. They asked me if I would come, and I said, ‘I’d be glad to.’ I really was doing it for our team and the players on our team that have worked hard all year long and who were very disappointed in the way they played in the last game in a very tough environment in a rivalry game and came up short. For them to have a second opportunity now I think is something that I certainly wanted to try to do the best I could as their coach to give them the opportunity to do. That’s why we did it.

“So, I don’t know if it had any impact on anybody on the committee, but I did want to at least put our case out there, in terms of our whole body of work, what we’d done all year long, trying to get the four best teams in there, and I think it worked out that way.

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