Far more often than not, the numbers just keep growing.
In Nick Saban’s 15 years as Alabama’s football coach, the Crimson Tide have won all 15 encounters against both Arkansas and Tennessee and the past 14 against Mississippi State. There was an eight-game winning streak against LSU that ended in 2019 and an eight-game run against Texas A&M that ended several weeks ago.
Alabama has triumphed eight consecutive times against Florida, six straight against Ole Miss and six straight against Georgia, with its success against the Bulldogs getting a bit more attention this week due to the magnitude of Saturday afternoon’s Southeastern Conference championship game collision between the No. 1 Bulldogs (12-0) and the No. 3 Crimson Tide (11-1) inside Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
“I think that what’s happened in the past in games really doesn’t have a lot of impact on what happens in the future,” Saban said. “I think that you’ve got to line up and play well in this game. What happened last year doesn’t matter. What happened the year before that doesn’t matter. You’ve got to play well in this game, and that’s the challenge that we all have.”
The Tide’s current dominance of Georgia – Bear Bryant’s longest streak against the Bulldogs was five wins from 1960-64 – began in 2008, when Alabama went to Athens and built a 31-0 halftime lead against the black-jerseyed Bulldogs before cruising 41-30. The second triumph in this run was the 32-28 thriller in the 2012 SEC title game, with the third Alabama’s 38-10 blowout in 2015 at Sanford Stadium.