Nick Saban feels the lack of college football teams getting into a huddle in today’s game impacted Alabama against Michigan.
Saban admitted the Wolverines getting into a huddle had an impact on Alabama’s ability to make defensive play calls. The Alabama head coach feels this is something some look over.
“One of the things that was a big difference in this game, which nobody ever talks about and nobody, and it’s a very simple thing, and you know Chuck probably would agree with me on this one, is we’re in no huddle,” Saban said on The Pat McAfee Show. “When you play a no huddle team and you’re not going fast, which we didn’t go fast enough, then their signal caller is basically making calls to defend the formation and the alignment that you’re in. They’re the only team that we played all season that got in a huddle. So, you know, it used to be every team was in a huddle. So we play our first game of the season where we’re playing against a team that’s in a huddle. So, you don’t have the advantage of seeing those formations until they come out of the huddle. So, you gotta make calls and that’s something that’s changed a lot in football. The simple concept of do you huddle or go no huddle.”
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