Live Updates | Nick Saban Media Availability: Wednesday of USF Week

Saban meets with the media one final time before the Crimson Tide takes on the Bulls in Tampa on Saturday afternoon.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban will meet with the media on Wednesday night at Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility in Tuscaloosa.

The 10th-ranked Crimson Tide is set to take on the South Florida Bulls in Tampa, Fla. on Saturday afternoon. 

Alabama is coming off a loss to No. 4 Texas last weekend.

"Well I think the goal when you try and play home and home games is to try to enhance the quality of opponents that you have," Saban said on Monday. "So you just can't go out and say 'Hey, let's play a game' and everybody agrees to it. You got to negotiate your way through to see who you can play and who can't play."

"It's been our goal, now this was before conference realignment so that may have some impact on future, was we want to since we're not going to play a neutral site game, can we get two quality opponents to be able to play in every season besides the SEC games so we have 10 games that — and look it's not easy to find people that will play you and sometimes you have to give and take a little bit to try to get those games to where we have a quality home schedule and we are planning two teams that are Division One caliber, decent teams to play. Scheduling is very difficult, we've tried to get it where we're playing two (quality) teams and I think most years we are."

Saban will take the podium at approximately 5:50 p.m. CT.

Live Updates

BamaCentral's Austin Hannon, Blake Byler and Joe Gaither are in the building for Saban's press conference. Stay tuned in to the live blog below for real-time updates.

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