re: ESPN - LSU 2019 spring preview: Can Tigers build on success?

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Saban has always been conservative with the ball late in games and the lead.

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A little off subject but your statement brought back a good memory. When Bama got to the Clemson 1 yard-line and the refs called a false start on Bama. Bama did not score - they missed a FG. Later Bama got to the six yard-line and Saban must have told his players not to commit a penalty (they took it as not to hold also) because the next few plays looked like a Clemson fire drill. They were in Bama's backfield as soon as the ball was snapped. Good times.

And how about that Nick Saban fake field goal.
"That oddball sight persisted when halftime ended. Alabama moved some, stalled ultimately and lined up for a 40-yard field goal, then desperately faked it, Clemson’s Nyles Pinckney stuffing the hopeless run of Alabama holder Mac Jones."

It got so bad, poor Savion Smith faked an injury because he was getting lit up so badly.