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With chaos ensuing in the college football world last week with half of the nations Top 10 -- including the Nos. 2, 3, and 4 teams -- all losing, No. 1 Alabama delivered a message as it emerged as the only undefeated team from a Power 5 conference.And that message?The message is when you win, you control your own destiny, Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said. When you dont, you allow someone else to determine what your fates going to be. We have all these teams that lost one game now.Somebody has to decide who gets to do what.Top-ranked Alabama (10-0) hosts Chattanooga (8-2) on Saturday (7 p.m. ET, ESPN2) at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa.Almost, but not quite, overlooked as the upsets of No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Ohio State, No. 8 Texas A&M, and No. 9 Auburn rolled in during the afternoon and evening last weekend was that the Crimson Tide clinched the SEC West.The 52-3 rout of Mississippi State coupled with Auburns loss at Georgia left them with a two-game cushion in the standings with only one SEC game left on the card. No matter what happens now, Alabama is a lock to play in the SEC championship game in Atlanta on Dec. 3.Also, no matter how it fares against Auburn in the Iron Bowl, the Tide looks to be heavily favored to beat the East winner -- either Florida or Tennessee -- in the title game and likely advance to the College Football Playoff. But although the Tide has overcome a loss to capture three of its four national titles under Saban, the coach wants no slip-ups down the stretch.If you put yourself in that situation, you let somebody else decided what your fate is, Saban said. If you take care of your business and do things the way you need to do it, then maybe you can control your own destiny in the way you play.Thats certainly much more the way we would like for it to be from our perspective. Weve got lots of tough games we have to play between now and then. We want to take it one game at a time and focus on improving.Alabama is on a 22-game winning streak, the longest of Sabans tenure and the third-longest in program history.Thats something that we take and try and keep going, Alabama wide receiver ArDarius Stewart said. Coach talks about it every week, all week, that you cant get complacent and you have to do all the little things right. Thats something we take pride in and try to do every week.The Tide put up impressive numbers against Mississippi State. Freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts became the first quarterback in Alabama history to throw for 300 yards (347) and rush for 100 yards (100) in the same game as he accounted for 447 yards of total offense, third-best in school history.Stewart became only the sixth player in program history to have three touchdown receptions in one game, and tight end O.J. Howard caught six passes for a season-high 77 yards with four of receptions resulting in first downs.We made a lot of explosive plays on offense, and executed in the passing game more efficiently and effectively, Saban said. 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Nearly four months after they played a pulsating final at the Olympic games in Rio, Carolina Marin and PV Sindhu will resume their rivalry at the Superseries Finals in Dubai starting on Wednesday. The pair have been drawn in the same group for the season ending tournament, featuring the top eight ranked players in the Superseries rankings, and their encounter will climax the group stage of the competition on Friday.The Superseries finals is played in the same format as the ATP & WTA tours year ending events with the players drawn in two groups of four each. At the end of the round robin stage, where they play each other once, the top two players qualify for the semifinals.Although Marin leads Sindhu 5-2 in their head-to-head encounters, she has struggled to maintain her form since the Olympics. A thigh injury sustained at the Denmark Open in October, her first tournament since Rio, has impeded her progress. Marin hasnt reached the final of any of the three tournaments she has competed in since clinching the Olympic Gold. She has in fact lost her top spot in the rankings to Taiwans Tai Tzu Ying, who beat her in a three game semifinal at the Hong Kong Open recently.Sindhu, on the other hand, has been in eye catching form recently. After exiting early from her first two tournaments after the Olympics in Denmark and France, Sindhu produced a sparkling run in China, where she won her first Superseries title and then reached the final in Hongo Kong, where she was beaten by Ying.Having missed a few Superseries events at the start of the year with injury, Sindhu wasnt expecting to even make the cut for Dubai, but these two sizzling performances helped her accumulate enough points to sneak in late. Speaking recently to ESPN, her coach Pullela Gopichand had said he was pleased to see Sindhus evolution as a player, especially the additions she has made to her arsenal of strokes.?While the clash against Marin will be eagerly anticipated, Sindhu will be keen to make a strong start at her fiirst appearance at this elite event.dddddddddddd On Wednesday, she plays Japans Akane Yamaguchi to get her campaign going. Sindhu leads the head to head against Yamaguchi 2-1 and has won both their previous clashes, including one earlier in the year at the Uber Cup.However Yamaguchis notched up some impressive recent results. She won the Korean Open in October and backed that up with another title in Denmark the following week. Though Yamaguchi has lost early at her last three tournaments, the world number 8 will be a tricky first opponent for Sindhu.On Thursday, Sindhu will come up against the rapidly improving Sun Yu of China, who has risen to 6 in the world rankings. The pair have clashed six times and have shared those matches equally. Sindhu won their most recent encounter, when she beat Yu on her home turf in the final of the China Open. It was a bruising three game encounter that lasted nearly 70 minutes before Sindhu clinched it 21-11 in the third game.With seven different players having shared the 12 Superseries events on the womens circuit in 2016, no clear favourite has emerged for the year ending finals. On current form Sindhu will surely be among the leading contenders though Gopichand was cautious in his assessment recently, saying many of her matches in China and Hong Kong had been closely fought where either player could have emerged on the right side of the result. Sindhu had told ESPN that she was elated at finding a place among this select field and the platform will provide her another opportunity to continue her to target a spot in the top five next year and more importantly continue to develop her game.Competition has always been there be it a small stage or big, she said. Meeting the challenges and winning them are the crowning glories that the titles carry. I feel more confident and also I have been working on all my strokes. ' ' '