Breaking News:Alabama and Michigan restricting game film on players tablets due to fears of sign-stealing hacking

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Count Alabama — and, as it turns out, Michigan — among the teams worried about sign-stealing.

On Thursday, Alabama wide receiver Isaiah Bond said that the team has not watched film on their individual tablets, out of fears from Michigan’s sign-stealing scandal earlier this year. All film-watching has been done solely in groups.

The app where we record film off of practice and stuff like that, and they were I guess like looking at other people’s play calls, their hand signals the first eight games or something like that,” Bond said.

Wolverine wideout Roman Wilson said that the team is also not watching film on individual iPads, and that coach Jim Harbaugh turned them off for everyone on Thursday. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy added the team hasn’t watched film on their iPads for all of November.

Former Michigan staffer Connor Stalions was suspended then later resigned after allegedly devising and leading an in-person scouting and sign-stealing scheme. Harbaugh served a three-game suspension during the season, a stretch that included the Ohio State game, and linebackers coach Chris Partridge was fired.

It’s unclear if Ohio State, or any other programs that had Michigan on the schedule, took such precautions during the regular season. Purdue coach Ryan Walters made it a point, though, to say what was on his mind during the season.