Former Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban coached the program from 2007 to 2023 and won six national titles with the program and won another with LSU. The last won he won was during the 2020 season against the Ohio State Buckeyes.
The Athletic Ranks Former Alabama Crimson Tide Head Coach Nick Saban As the Top College Football Coach Over the last 25 Years
Chris Vannini of the Athletic ranked his top 25 college football coaches over the last 25 years. To no surprise, he had the former Crimson Tide coach ranked number one. Urban Meyer was ranked number two on this list behind Saban. Vannini said about Saban being number one,
“Accomplishments: Seven national championships, 11 SEC championships, 18 top-10 finishes (16 straight), 13 top-five finishes, four Heisman winners
Saban is the most successful coach in the history of the sport and an easy No. 1. His run at Alabama from the late 2000s through the 2010s set a new precedent for the era. A lot of other really good coaches and programs that historically would have won a championship did not because they ran into Saban’s Alabama on the other sideline. Every four-year player at Alabama under Saban won a national championship. We’ll likely never see a run like that again. Fittingly, Saban and Meyer will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in the same class later this year.”
There is no doubt that Saban was one of the best recruiters ever to go along with his elite coaching at the college level. Hopefully, the Crimson Tide program will be in the national championship picture with Kalen DeBoer with Saban being retired for over a year. Not only was Saban one of the best college coaches over the last 25 years, but he might be the greatest college football head coach of all-time.
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