AL.com’s Joseph Goodman had one of the wilder ideas in an opinion column titled “Alabama doesn’t know how to play for its new coach”: re-hire Nick Saban as a part-time defensive coordinator on Kalen DeBoer’s staff.

DeBoer took the Alabama job to be The Guy After The Guy, inviting the comparisons to the greatest college football coach of all time, and he was always going to be raked over the coals by fans whenever his first loss came. But his first loss wasn’t supposed to be this, a setback arguably worse than any loss Saban suffered with the Tide.

How did Alabama football respond to losses under Nick Saban? The Crimson Tide were nearly unbeatable. Here's a look at the numbers: