Nick Saban warns Texas A&M ahead of team's visit to Auburn: 'That place is haunted'

During his 17 seasons patrolling the Alabama shot sideline, Nick Saban became acquainted with competing against Auburn, the Crimson Tide's in-state rival.

The retired Saban works arsenic an expert for ESPN's "College GameDay." The fashionable tv programme was successful Columbus, Ohio, Saturday for the matchup betwixt Ohio State and Indiana. 

The Buckeyes entered the Week 13 contention No. 2 successful the latest College Football Playoff rankings, portion Indiana was slotted fifth. Ohio State handed Indiana its archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season.

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Nick Saban walks disconnected the tract aft it was renamed successful his grant astatine Bryant-Denny Stadium during halftime of Alabama’s triumph implicit South Florida 42-16 successful Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 7, 2024. (Gary Cosby Jr./USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

During a treatment astir Saturday's Southeastern Conference showdown betwixt Auburn and the visiting Texas A&M Aggies, Saban issued a informing astir playing astatine Jordan-Hare Stadium, suggesting the shot stadium was "haunted."

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"Well, I would beryllium alerting Texas A&M, because, successful my opinion, 17 years going to Auburn and playing astatine Jordan-Hare [Stadium], that spot is haunted," Saban said. "I warrant it.

"The mode we mislaid games and the mode we won games there, it's unbelievable. Kick Six, and past the 'gravedigger' past year. I mean, I'm telling you, the spot is haunted."

An exterior presumption during a crippled betwixt the Auburn Tigers and the LSU Tigers astatine Jordan-Hare Stadium successful Auburn, Ala., Oct. 4, 2014. (Shanna Lockwood/USA Today Sports)

The Iron Bowl, the sanction for the Alabama-Auburn rivalry, has resulted successful astonishing and memorable finishes connected respective occasions.

The "Kick Six" play was a notation to a game-winning 109-yard instrumentality connected a missed tract extremity arsenic clip expired during the 2013 variation of the game.

Chris Davis (11) of the Auburn Tigers returns a missed tract extremity for the winning touchdown successful a 34-28 triumph implicit the Alabama Crimson Tide astatine Jordan-Hare Stadium Nov. 30, 2013, successful Auburn, Ala. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Saban coached the Crimson Tide to triumph much times than not successful the Iron Bowl, going 12-5 during his career. But Alabama had a 5-4 grounds successful games played astatine Auburn's location stadium.

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Texas A&M volition look to support its playoff hopes live Saturday nighttime during its sojourn to Auburn. The adjacent variation of the Iron Bowl is scheduled for Nov. 30. This year's crippled volition beryllium played connected Alabama's field astatine Bryant-Denny Stadium. The rivalry moves backmost to Jordan-Hare successful 2025.

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