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“He looks at me and said, ‘You been coughing?’ I said, ‘No,'” Saban said on Thursday night.

“He says, ‘You got it from yelling. There’s nothing wrong with you. You just got it from yelling. So you busted a blood vessel in your eye from yelling too much.’ Probably because the players are talking to each other on the field. That’s probably the reason,” Saban said.

Saban’s intensity at practice this week makes sense, considering the task ahead of the Crimson Tide. No. 8 Alabama (7-1) hosts No. 14 LSU (6-2) at 7:45 p.m. ET on Saturday in the latest installment in one of college football’s biggest rivalries. ESPN’s College GameDay pregame show will be on location, while the game will air nationally on CBS.

Alabama is seeking to avenge an overtime loss to LSU in Tiger Stadium last season. And a win this time around would keep control of the SEC West in the Crimson Tide’s favor, while also providing a notable win for the team’s College Football Playoff résumé. After losing to Texas in September, Alabama has won six games in a row, with two of those games coming against ranked SEC opponents.

During the radio show, Nessler asked Saban how he motivates his players going into a game like this. At first, the 10-time SEC Champion coach went into an anecdote about his eye. But then he provided a long answer.

“I do a lot of research, a lot of reading, on human behavior,” Saban said. “We’ve got three different people that I get input from on a weekly basis—two psychiatrists and one sports psychologist—about human behavior, how to affect it, what is a good message to be sending at this point in time.