🏈 History shows us over and over again that Nick Saban doesn't just get mad, he gets even.

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The loss was nothing short of stunning, especially considering the opponent.

The University of Alabama defense had limited Auburn to season lows in total offense and rushing yards, only to be left watching as the Tigers celebrated the remarkable comeback win.

"We didn't finish the game," Alabama coach Nick Saban said during his postgame press conference. "When you play good teams you've got to play for 60 minutes. Those kinds of teams don't go away. There's a lot of lessons to be learned out there about finishing games and continuing to do things correctly.”

Yet this wasn’t last year’s epic finish at Jordan-Hare Stadium, where Chris Davis’ 100-plus yard touchdown return off a missed field goal as time expired resulted in an epic 34-28 finish.

This was the 2010 game. Due to a torn pectoral muscle, safety Mark Barron couldn’t lift his arm to intercept or deflect a pass that resulted in a 70-yard touchdown, running back Mark Ingram had just his second lost fumble in 613 touches and Alabama blew a 24-0 lead.

The Crimson Tide subsequently responded by winning the rematch 42-14 and the next two national championships only to learn the same tough lesson all over again.

The question now is can Alabama bounce back in similar fashion?

There’s no way of knowing until the season plays out and the rivals meet again Nov. 29 at Bryant-Denny Stadium, but history tells us that the Crimson Tide should be more than ready.

Les Miles won the 2011 regular-season battle, but Nick Saban won the war with LSU.

Since 2008 only eight opposing coaches have managed to pull out a victory against Saban, while just one, Les Miles, has defeated him twice in a row. Previously the last coach to defeat him in consecutive games was Steve Spurrier when Florida was flying high under his direction. It pounded LSU 41-9 in 2000, and 44-15 in 2001.

Before losing to LSU during the 2011 season Saban had won 12 straight rematches.

In those 14 initial defeats Saban’s team lost by an average of 14.4 points. In the rematches he won by an average of 14.7 points.

Of course, no rematch was bigger than LSU in 2011, when the Crimson Tide lost the regular-season meeting in overtime, 9-6, only to play again for the national title. Despite LSU being in its back yard of New Orleans, Alabama recorded the only shutout in Bowl Championship Series history, 21-0.

It’s part of a familiar pattern.

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It looks like former Auburn coach Gene Chizik is a big believer of home-field advantage, at least when it comes to rivalry games.

Chizik, who appeared on the College Sports Today show on Sirius satellite radio, predicted a 10-2 record for Auburn in 2014.

The losses?

Chizik, who coached at Auburn from 2009-2012, said the defending SEC champions will fall in Tuscaloosa to Alabama.

"That's almost one of those 50-50 deals," Chizik said, according to 247Sports. "If the game was at Auburn, I would pick Auburn."

Chizik is no stranger to playing in Tuscaloosa. It was his 2010 team, led by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Cam Newton, which went 14-0 and won the BCS national championship. One of those wins included overcoming a 24-0 deficit to beat Alabama 28-27 in Tuscaloosa.

He also predicts a loss at home to South Carolina.

"I think South Carolina will get them," he said, noting the Gamecocks are loaded.

Of course, the last time we saw Chizik he was staring down his daughter's prom date in a picture that went viral in April.

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Don't make Nick Saban angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.