Aaron Murray shared an entertaining story of when he – the Georgia quarterback – was “hustled” by the GOAT himself Nick Saban.

In 2012, on Lake Burton, Murray – then the quarterback for the Bulldogs – was riding around on a jet ski on the same lake the former Alabama football coach has a house. He and a buddy decide to head that way to see if Saban was around. Sure enough, he was in his backyard.

Saban, who was roughly 60 at the time, asked how Murray and the Bulldogs were doing.

“We look pretty good, man,” Murray recalled to the Saturday Down South podcast. “Got a good team. Got this kid names Jarvis Jones who terrorizes me at practice every day. He’s going to get to play. Excited to see what he looks like. All these pieces, like we think like the East, we have a chance to win the East.”

Murray admits, in hindsight, he probably gave up just a little too much information to the Alabama coach.

The savvy quarterback then re-directed the question back at Saban.

Murray recalled Saban saying we have “lots of questions still. A lot of youth. A lot of positions we’re unsure of. Position battles will be interesting in fall camp.

“He was like, ‘Honestly, guys, I’m gonna be real. I just don’t think it’s our year.”

Murray then recalls how they took off on the water, thinking “we don’t have to worry about Saban and Alabama this year.”

Fast forward to the end of the season, and Alabama beats Georgia for the SEC championship and advances to the national championship game.

“So he hustled me,” Murray said. “Nick Saban hustled me back in 2012 at Lake Burton. Unbelievable. I fell for it.”

AJ McCarron threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to Amari Cooper with 3:15 remaining, and No. 2 Alabama barely held on at the end, beating No. 3 Georgia 32-28 in the SEC title game in December of 2012.

After an apparent game-clinching interception by Alabama was overturned on a video review, Georgia’s Aaron Murray completed a 15-yard pass to Arthur Lynch, a 23-yarder to Tavarres King and a 26-yarder to Lynch, who was hauled down at the Alabama 8 as the clock continued to run.

The Bulldogs (11-2) were out of timeouts.

The Tide then beat Notre Dame 42-14 for the national championship.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.