Nick Saban notably excluded Alabama from his SEC title game pick, but it was in a good cause.
Nick Saban employed some cheeky reverse psychology when he notably excluded Alabama in his prediction for this year's SEC Championship Game, the ex-Crimson Tide coach admitted."It's kind of reverse rat poison," Saban said.
"I always hated it. I'm going to hate it on this show. I might as well say it right off the bat. This show, any show, or GameDay. Having to predict and make hypothetical decisions about who's going to win a game, who's going to win the championship, who's going to win what conference. I've always hated that."
He added: "I picked Georgia and Texas because it's reverse rat poison for Alabama. It's a motivating factor for them not to get picked because I hated to get picked first or second because you don't know how that's going to impact your team psychologically. "These kids are affected a lot by what they read, what they hear, what they see. I didn't want them to see anything too good."
" always said, 'Don't let some guy who lives in his mom's basement determine how you feel,'" Booker said. "So I'm not going to let a guy who plays golf all day determine how I feel."James Parks is the founder and publisher of College Football HQ. He previously covered football for 247Sports and CBS Interactive. College Football HQ joined the Sports Illustrated Fannation Network in 2022.
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