After a gutting loss in the Rose Bowl on Monday evening, Alabama coach Nick Saban’s wife, Terry Saban, said the legendary coach wasn’t going to watch the Sugar Bowl later that night. Instead, she said her husband needed to get his mind off football after the Crimson Tide’s 27–20 overtime loss to Michigan.
Indeed, Terry Saban revealed the couple’s postgame plans to Josh Peter of USA Today, and those plans didn’t include watching Washington play Texas in the second College Football Playoff semifinal.
Terry recounted her conversation with Nick immediately after Monday’s loss to Peter, and it went like this: