Alabama will be the overwhelming favorite against Charleston Southern, but Nick Saban remembers when another FCS team ran for 300 yards on his famed defense.

Per The Sporting News, a reporter at Saban's weekly press conference on Wednesday asked the coach if his younger players were looking forward to getting playing time against the FCS team. Saban took the opportunity to remind people what happens when you underestimate an opponent.

"Well how in the hell do you know they're going to get to play," Saban said, according to AL.com. "What makes you think you can just assume that they're going to get to play. Because you're assuming the other team is not very good? They do have a Division I quarterback. He plays like a Division I quarterback... if we don't play against them..."

In 2011, en route to a National Championship, Alabama beat Georgia Southern 45-21, but their FCS opponent ran for 302 yards on them. Like Georgia Southern, Charleston Southern runs an option offense, and a quarterback who runs that system well is the kind that can give Alabama trouble.

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"I don't think we had a guy on that field that didn't play in the NFL and about four or five of them were first-round draft picks," Saban said. "And I think that team won a national championship, but I'm not sure.

"And they ran through our ass like s--- through a tin horn, man. And we could not stop them. Could not stop them. Could not stop them because we could not get a look in practice. We couldn't practice it right? And everybody said the same thing in that game. Y'all took a week off. This wasn't important, so it's not important to anybody else. It has to be important to the players and it has to be important to us."