We need to start Game 1 where we finished off Game 70 and not let anything go backward. More than anything, it's my expectation we would do everything we did last year that was possible. But we have to build on that. We have to get better.

It is always a tough game up here, let alone if you give up an 18-point start,

We got off to a good start in that game, ... We just kind of got too comfortable and let them back in it. Then we were like 'Hey, A&M. Not today.'

His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the national championship, but it wasn't easy. There were a lot of games where we battled back and had to show our mettle as a team. We still have to fight to beat people.

I won't let our great state move backward, not when we can keep Alabama moving forward,

The last game, we didn't start off well. We let them drive down the field and score a touchdown, and that's something we can't do.