It seems like the way to beat Saban is to give him looks he has never seen.

Saban is preparing his team with all of LSU’s tendencies and what is on film.

LSU is going to have to break tendencies and show different looks on offense and defense. Giving Saban the looks that are on film and playing into your tendencies seems like a losing formula.

Last year Saban said this at half time against Clemson:

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Well, first of all, we aren’t doing a good job of getting off the field on third down on defense,” Saban said. “We’ve turned the ball over twice, aight. We had the ball on the half-yard line and had a penalty, took points off the board. We’ve executed well enough on offense, scored some points but turned the ball over and shoot ourselves in the foot. Defensively, we are going to have to play a lot better, aight, then what we are playing. They are doing some things — that other people have done to us, we haven’t practiced against that we are going to fix at halftime.”

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I’m pretty sure Coach O knows this and I hope they are working on some new looks on both sides of the ball. The thing that gives me pause is the fact that Les Miles and Coach O teams did not seem to game plan for Saban in previous years. They just ran their schemes they were familiar with and let the chips fall where they may. The problem with that was it played right into Saban’s hands.

The formula is there. Dabo showed us how to game plan for Saban. I hope Coach O took note. I believe he has and I believe we will see looks in the game against that team we have never seen before on both sides of the ball.

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