Despite always incredibly high expectations, Alabama Football under Nick Saban never qualifies as a potential bust team. Nick Saban once joked if the Alabama Crimson Tide ever lost three games in a season, he would probably be fired. He would not, but a season with three Alabama losses would absolutely be a bust. It has happened once in Saban’s Alabama tenure since his first season in 2007. There were three losses in the 2010 season and one of them required bad luck striking twice in that season’s Auburn game.
So what follows does not apply to Alabama Football.