WATCH: Cotton Bowl Head Coaches Press Conference

As Michigan State and Alabama wind down their preparations and ready to play at 8pm Thursday in the Cotton Bowl, old friends and colleagues Michigan State Head Coach Mark Dantonio and Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban spoke Wednesday morning.  Dantonio was a coach under Saban for five years in the late 1990's when Saban led the Spartans.

The jokes were few and far between as the coaches got down to business when they spoke to the media.  

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