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HURT: Nostalgia, sentiment riddle the SEC Championship

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ATLANTA | For much of the past week, Nick Saban has seemed, for want of a better word, philosophical. You’d almost go all the way to “sentimental,” although that didn’t seem like quite the right description either for a man who referred one of my press-conference questions to a soda bottle on Wednesday.

But earlier in the week, when asked about Mark Richt’s firing, then on Thursday at his radio show and Friday in his media session at the Georgia Dome, Saban spiced the usual competitive fire with reflection on the changing nature of the game.