Nick Saban spent most of his coaching career convincing players that every detail mattered. His latest College Football Playoff argument had some fans wondering whether one detail mattered a little too much: which conference a team plays in.

“I think all you guys need to calm down,” Saban told Pat McAfee, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard. “Here (McAfee) got rat poison over here for LSU, proclaiming they are going to win the national championship after one game.

Nick Saban took a bit of a playful jab at the Big Ten on Friday, a day ahead of the much-anticipated showdown between Texas and visiting Ohio State. “We’ve already got nine teams in the top 25,” Saban said during his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN.

College GameDay analyst and ex-college football coach Nick Saban provided his honest assessment on the SEC and Big Ten's depth during his Pat McAfee Show appearance on Friday (h/t Daniel Hager of On3).

Where Big Ten fans can chirp back is that while the league may not have the firepower of the SEC, it has won the last three national titles — Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana — to end the SEC’s four-year run. The SEC hasn’t even placed a team in the national title game in that span.

Nick Saban made a bold statement on Friday’s episode of The Pat McAfee Show. The legendary former coach added fuel to the SEC vs.

Paul Finebaum says Nick Saban lost money on Louisiana oil and gas deals before Alabama hired him in 2007, and explains why he passed on the Texas job.

Nick Saban has been a huge figurehead in college football for the best part of four decades. After retiring from coaching in 2023, having spent the previous 17 seasons spearheading the Alabama