The Alabama Crimson Tide football team continued practice in the heat this week in preparation for their season opener against Kent State this Saturday in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Saban talked about the challenge of playing a team with a new coach in Kent State’s head coach Darrell Hazel, a former Ohio State assistant.

“There are a lot of unknowns,” Saban said. “More unknowns than you usually have in preparation for a game. So, really the key thing is to take care of business, everybody to take the approach to take care of business and challenge themselves to prepare well, play the best football, see where our team is and kind of work to create an identity of who we want to be, what we want to be, what we want to accomplish and spend our time focused on those things.”

The Crimson Tide does not know exactly the schemes that Kent State will be using, given that Kent State is playing the Tide in the first game with their new head coach.

“They have a coordinator from Purdue on offense, they got a coordinator from Youngstown State on defense and you see what they did last year,” Saban said. “You see what their personnel is, you don’t know if they are going to run Ohio State’s offense.”