Alabama football makes CBS Sports' 'most hated teams of all-time' list
Alabama, Miami, Notre Dame, or Cam Newton-led Auburn? This Nick Saban Crimson Tide team is the most hated in program history, CBS Sports says.
Alabama football will never be without its share of critics and detractors, no matter who roams the sidelines at Bryant-Denny Stadium -- or previously Birmingham's Legion Field. That was especially true during Nick Saban's illustrious tenure as Crimson Tide head coach. Between 2009 and 2020, Saban produced six national championships in his 17 full seasons in Tuscaloosa.
In the grand scheme of things, though, there's one team CBS Sports believes best embodies the spirit of hate Alabama received under Saban better than any other. That would be the Crimson Tide's 2011 squad. Alabama and LSU were indisputably the best two teams in college football that year.
Oklahoma State was a distant third behind the two SEC behemoths, who met in their annual regular-season showdown in early November 2011: the "Game of the Century" at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. LSU won, 9-6, in overtime. And that seemed to be that for Alabama's national championship hopes.
But then a month of chaos ensued: Oklahoma State lost to Iowa State. Boise State lost to TCU. Oregon lost to USC.
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