Reports: Auburn staffer nearly had laptop stolen prior to Peach Bowl

Must be a state of Alabama thing.

Thursday, it was reported that a backpack belonging to Alabama defensive line coach Karl Dunbar, which contained among other things his laptop and UA’s playbook, was stolen after the assistant sat it down in a meeting room at the team’s hotel two days before Monday’s national title game. Not long after that report surfaced, both AuburnUndercover.com and al.com reported that someone attempted to steal the laptop of an Auburn defensive staffer at the hotel the team was staying at prior to the Peach Bowl.

From al.com‘s report:

An unidentified person attempted to take a laptop belonging to an Auburn defensive staff member from a private meeting room at the downtown hotel, a source with knowledge of the matter confirmed. Security stopped the unknown male from stealing, but he got away before being detained, the source said of the incident.

The identity of the UA staffer who narrowly averted being the victim of a theft was divulged. Both laptop incidents, incidentally, occurred at the same hotel -- Atlanta’s Marriott Marquis.

Auburn lost in their bowl game to unbeaten national champion UCF. Alabama, of course, went on to beat Georgia for its own national championship.