For Alabama's defense, Deshaun Watson is the hill.
Nick Saban tells a story about the three summers he spent as a young man driving a Coca-Cola delivery truck. Saban's boss did not appreciate Saban's habit of burning out the clutch, but Saban had a perfectly understandable reason. "The hardest part for me was the hills when the truck wanted to roll back," Saban said on his radio show in October. "You've got a big, heavy truck and it rolls back and you've got a cart behind you. You've got one foot on the brake. One foot on the clutch.