Alabama takes on Texas A&M on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET. Watch the live stream HERE.
Alabama's only loss of the season last year came against A&M, helping to propel Aggies quarterback Johnny Manziel to his Heisman win. Despite the blemish on last year's record, the Crimson Tide insists that Saturday isn't about payback.
"Yeah, it's the only game we lost last year," Alabama receiver Amari Cooper said, via ESPN. "To me, it's not a revenge thing because if we wanted to get revenge, we'd have to play that same team last year with the same team we had last year.
"It's really not a revenge thing. If you lose a fight with someone, you don't get revenge from fighting someone else."
Saturday's bout between the Crimson Tide and Aggies is the most anticipated game of the season. With Manziel's eventful offseason and the hype around the sophomore quarterback, CBS has dedicated a camera to solely following Manziel. The "Johnny Cam," which Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin isn't excited about.
"Everything that we do here at Texas A&M is about team and it's about building our team, building our program and not the individual," he said. "Saturday afternoon you're going to have two football teams, and I just don't understand why there's got to be one guy singled out with a camera. That's not what we try to be about, that's not what we promote."
While hype certainly surrounds the game, Alabama coach Nick Saban is adamant about his team keeping their emotions in check and not losing their cool.
"It's never part of our game," Saban said. "We tell our players, there's no circumstance where you need to talk to another player, and there's been very little of that with our team. Business-like is the way we'd like to approach this game. It's going to be emotional, don't get me wrong. And I'm not trying to minimize the importance when I used the term 'business-like.'
"People who get emotional sometimes don't make the best decisions."
