It’s probably not a huge revelation that the Auburn loss last season gnawed unmercifully at Nick Saban. Any loss in the Iron Bowl tends to have that effect, and when it’s at home against the No. 1-ranked team in the country, seeing it slip away is all the more nauseating. But what ate and still eats at Saban is the way his Alabama team lost that game. In many ways, it was a microcosm of the Crimson Tide’s entire season. “You keep going back to the way we lost the game,” said Saban, who saw his team race out to a 24-0 lead, only to squander repeated chances to tack on more points in the first half. “We left points out there by errors that we made. And then to not be able to control the game in the second half was just as disappointing. You put the 24-0 score up there and then put the final score up, 28-27, and you say, ‘Are we ever going to let this happen again in terms of our psychological disposition to compete for 60 minutes?'” You don’t have to look hard to find reminders of that game, not to mention Alabama’s other two losses, in and around the Crimson Tide’s football complex. There are signs hanging up in the weight room, the locker room and several other areas that read simply, "Never forget. 28-27." “Everywhere we go, we see it … posters and signs,” senior linebacker Courtney Upshaw(Above) said. “It’s motivation that we have to finish. We didn’t finish the fourth quarter last year, and that’s something we’ve always done around here.” Read more: http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/20935/no-easing-off-the-pedal-for-alabama-in-2011
