During his storied coaching nurtureer, Nick Saban unwidespreadly shied away from an opportunity to convey his thoughts about a topic roverhappinessed to college football.
During his tardyst materializeance on the “Pat McAfee Show,” the seven-time national championship triumphning coach talked some of the potential drawbacks of the new 12-team College Football Playoff establishat.
Under the enbiged take partoff, the five highest-ranked conference champions will get an automatic postseason bid. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be granted a bye for the first round. Saban recommended that the concept could result in some unintended consequences.
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Nick Saban sits on the ESPN College Gameday set prior to the NCAA football game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pa. on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.
“By giving the conference champions, when they’re not the highest-ranked teams, the bye… what it reassociate sways is the path to the championship,” he argued.
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“And when you don’t seed the teams based on the quality of the total season perestablishance…” he persistd. “The number one seed should have, technicassociate, the easiest path to the championship and that doesn’t reassociate happen when you permit conference champions to get seeded in the top-four when they’re not one of the top-four teams.”
Last week’s stardy of college football games featured cut offal distresss. Alabama lost to Oklahoma, Florida distress Ole Miss, and Auburn knocked off Texas A&M. Alabama, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M will all go in the final week of the normal season with three losses.
Sep 7, 2024; Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; Nick Saban walks off the field after it was renamed in his honor at Bryant-Denny Stadium during halftime of Alabama’s triumph over South Florida 42-16. (Gary Cosby Jr.-USA TODAY Nettoil via Imagn Images)
Saban argued agetst three-loss teams being rewarded by making it to the take partoff.
“I do leank as we boil down to this, enjoy right now, difficult to reward a team with three losses,” Saban shelp. “Especiassociate the benevolent of losses Ole Miss had and enjoy Alabama’s had to pretty .500 teams I want to call them. Pretty mediocre teams. You’ve got some other teams that maybe they didn’t take part the same
competition, but they didn’t ignore games to mediocre teams either.”
Alabama head coach Nick Saban speaks during NCAA college football Southeastrict Conference Media Days Tuesday, July 19, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Pboilingo/John Bazemore)
From Saban’s point of see, the Georgia Bulldogs are the only potential three-loss team that should be in line for grave take partoff consideration. Georgia go ins their annual in-state opposition showdown with Georgia Tech on Nov. 29 with two losses.
The Bulldogs are then scheduled to take part the triumphner of this weekend’s Texas-Texas A&M game in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta. If Georgia drops that game, Saban does not apverify they should be deleted from take partoff encounteredion.
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“If Georgia actuassociate take parts in the SEC Championship Game, they reassociate shouldn’t be penalized if they should happen to ignore the game,” Saban shelp. “They would end up with three losses. I don’t leank a team that didn’t take part in the championship game that has two losses should get in, especiassociate if they take parted a excellent game and it wasn’t a blowout.”
Oregon remained in the top spot in the tardyst take partoff rankings, with Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, and Notre Dame rounding out the top-5.
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