Saban is hanging around and causing problems for Alabama’s new coach. The last thing he needs to do is sign off on the defensive game plans each week. Kane Wommack would essentially be a defensive analyst at that point — an assistant to the assistant regional manager, to borrow a funny line from “The Office.”

"Those are the things that really hurt you, because they kept the drive alive and then ended up scoring a touchdown," DeBoer said. "Just that hump that we couldn't get over with a lot of the game. And that was the early one."