But it was also Saban who declared that type of football, which he perfected at Alabama, ...
anachronistic saying that great offenses now beat great defenses and that it requires an explosive offense to win a NC now:
"It's just like last week. Georgia has as good a defense as we do an offense, and we scored 41 points on them [in a 41-24 Alabama win]. That's not the way it used to be. It used to be if you had a good defense, other people weren't going to score. You were always going to be in the game. I'm telling you. It ain't that way anymore.
[...]
"I don't like it. But we just have to make sure we have an offense that's that way and that explosive, which we have."
ND doesn't.