Nick Saban is known for his epic rants during press conferences when he gets a question he doesn’t like.

Well, that happened again on Wednesday night when a reporter asked about fluctuating quality of opponents as Alabama prepares for Louisiana-Monroe.

As you can see below, it’s clear Saban won’t let his team overlook the WarHawks ahead of the Week 3 matchup in Bryant-Denny Stadium:

“That’s your opinion on quality of opponent, aight. It’s not mine,” Saban said. “I respect all of the people that we play, and I respect winning and what you have to do to win, aight. And every player should not be focused on who they’re playing against relative to their motivation, but every player should want to be the best player they can be. So why would it matter whether we’re playing Texas or playing somebody else? That’s how you get good. That’s how you develop the right habits. That’s how you’re consistent.

“I’ve told you guys more than once: when I was in the NFL, I watched players and I didn’t know who they were playing against. I was just evaluating them. So that means when we play a team that’s not as good as somebody else, you don’t play as good? So you let the opponent determine how you play? You let the score determine how you play? Where you’re playing, aight, that determines how you play? When you get evaluated, what’s somebody think? ‘Well, this guy plays pretty good at home. I don’t think we’ll draft him.’ Does that make sense?

“So I respect what it takes to win, aight. Didn’t I say this on Monday? What does what you’re favored in a game mean? When you’re favored by 20 points and you lose like 2 teams did this week, what does it mean? It means the people favoring you either don’t know what they’re talking about or the players playing got affected by that. Neither one of them are good.”

Should Alabama win this game easily? Absolutely.

But Saban’s point is this — if the players are dismissing Louisiana-Monroe and not working hard in practice, well, we’ve seen crazier upsets over the years in college football.