Saban on Jalen Hurts playing, sort of a surprise:
"Well, you know, what I was really puzzled about is I said that we were going to pick a starter between Cooper Bateman and Blake Barnett. I never said Jalen Hurts wasn't going to play and y'all never asked. I never said he was going to play. It was the plan all along to figure out which one of those guys are going to start and manage this game the best, and Jalen Hurts was going to have a role in the game. We had a special plan for him. And he practiced his plays all week long, and he was going to go in the third series of the game in my mind no matter what. And that's what we did. Y'all never asked. I wouldn't have told you if you would have asked, but you didn't ask."