Alabama vs. LSU on Saturday is one of the biggest college football games in the SEC every year, and Nick Saban pulled out of his greatest press conference hits in analyzing it.

During ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast live from Baton Rouge, Saban noted that the key to the game is “resiliency that Alabama can show as a team.” He noted how his team reacted during a 2018 visit to Tiger Stadium, when it came away with a 29-0 win.

“When we came in here, when Tua (Tagovailoa) was playing quarterback, went right down the field, like shit through a tin horn,” Saban said. “We get down there in the student section man and we get four straight false starts. They take us right out of the field goal range.

“But the key to the drill was it never affected anybody. You hate to get the penalties, but you can’t be affected. Alabama was affected at Tennessee when they had snap count problems early. I think it affected them. They cannot get affected by that type of thing. … You’ve got to create momentum to keep the crowd out of the game and that comes from consistency, play in and play out.”

Saban first used the “tin horn” analogy in a press conference in 2015, in the week before Alabama played Charleston Southern. Saban made note of how the Crimson Tide couldn’t take its opponent lightly, as it might have done in a 45-21 win over Georgia Southern in 2011, when the Eagles rushed for 302 yards and — in Saban’s words — “run through our ass like shit through a tin horn.”

On Saturday, Saban’s fellow panelists reacted with surprise, but didn’t let his profane utterance go. Kirk Herbstreit asked “you’ve used that tin horn thing before and I’ve always wanted to ask you what it means?”

Saban: “I can’t explain what it means.”

Pat McAfee then chimed in: “It just goes right through there, there is no resistance.”

Rece Davis: “I don’t know why you would put that in a tin horn.”