Despite Alabama coach Nick Saban's distaste towards cigars, he couldn't help but take one while reveling in the success of his Crimson Tide's 34-20 win over Tennessee in Week 8 of the college football season.

The victor of the Alabama-Tennessee matchup traditionally sparks up cigars postgame. It's a ritual Saban has not partaken during his run of historic dominance over the Vols.

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But following No. 8 Alabama's win over Tennessee — spurred by a 27-0 second half — the legendary football coach said he had a plan for the celebratory postgame cigar. He he received it from CBS sideline reporter Jenny Dell (much to the amusement of quarterback Jalen Milroe).

"Well, I'll chew on one for a while," Saban remarked.

Saban took the cigar from Dell and put it in his mouth without lighting it, accompanied by a smirk and slight shrug. He ran off the field with the cigar clinched in his left hand in front of a rocking Bryant-Denny Stadium.

"I guess it's fun when you get the opportunity to smoke a cigar. I don't smoke," Saban said on Wednesday during the SEC media teleconference. "I just kind of chew on one a little bit."

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