The date is Oct. 8. Texas A&M at Alabama. Circle it in red.
Hell, circle it in blood. This has immediately escalated into the most bitter rivalry of 2022—if not ever.
In a jaw-dropping span of less than 14 hours, Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban launched an attack on Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher, saying A&M “bought every player on their team,” and Fisher responded with scorched-earth fury. In a hastily arranged press conference, Fisher called his former boss’s comments “despicable,” labeled Saban “a narcissist” who “thinks he’s God,” overtly and repeatedly questioned Saban’s ethics and rules compliance and suggested somebody should have “slapped him” upside the head as a child.
