Nick Saban was the second to hit the podium for the final Sugar Bowl news conferences of the week.
Here's what he said Sunday morning in advance of the Monday evening game in the Superdome after Dabo Swinney's turn.
-- Linebacker Mack Wilson will have to call plays for the first time since Dylan Moses and Shaun Dion Hamilton are out. Saban said Christian Miller and Terrell Lewis are probably 100 percent after returning to action at Auburn more than a month ago.
-- "I sense a little lack of intensity in this room. I have a team meeting with the players today at 2:15 and I hope they're not of the mindset that I see here today," a smiling Saban said to the room full of reporters.
-- Asked about Swinney's prediction of future Alabama-Clemson playoff games, Saban said he's not in that business necessarily. Saban said it's a rebuilding job every single year but hopes they can continue at this standard.
-- On the likelihood of another high scoring game between Alabama and Clemson: Both teams can score points but the two defenses are first and second in scoring defense. They've had high scoring games the last few years but he said he's not good at predicting how much offense to expect.
-- There are usually six or seven plays that determine the outcome and you never really know when they are coming.
-- "I really don't have a great feel for how this game might play out," Saban said.
-- Asked again about expanding playoffs, Saban still thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Saban said his teams get criticized for being too "businesslike" because they take on his personality. "Quite frankly, I'm not always that way."
-- Will Alabama watch the Rose Bowl game before playing the Sugar Bowl? Saban said he won't but there's no policy he has against it for players. Some will watch. Some won't. But it's a distraction to him.
-- On LaBryan Ray after breaking his foot in November: "His status for this game is he is available to play, but he's also in sort of the same situation that several of our players were for the Auburn game. They were medically cleared to play, but they were limited in terms of the number of reps that they could get in practice. So, their role in the game had to reflect that. And I think that's where LaBryan Ray is."