You may not like Nick Saban or Alabama, but you can’t deny that they were the best football program in the nation for the better part of 2 decades. There will never be another team like Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide. They’re not even my favorite team, but I know better than to try to argue with facts.

Since 2010, Alabama lost only twice to teams ranked outside the top 15 (not top 25, TOP FIFTEEN). During that same period, no team, not Ohio State, not Clemson, not Georgia, no one, has lost FEWER than TEN times to teams ranked outside the top 15. That’s unreal. Saban and Alabama were simply an amazing combination that will likely never be replicated.

Saban didnt just dominate He carried a golden shovel. And buried any program who tasted just the slightest succsess. And sent them straight back to the cellar Texas, A&M, Miss St., Florida. I could go on Absolute GOAT

It got to a point where ESPN analysts (plural) were having legitimate conversations about whether or not the team that Alabama was fielding could beat an NFL team. (I think this was 2017). It was wild.

As a Georgia fan, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: losing Saban is akin to Batman losing his Joker. Even if we pull off another natty next season, it’ll be eerily anti-climatic once we realize the specter of Nick Saban’s genius isn’t looming over our shoulders anymore.

As an Auburn fan, beating Bama felt like a miracle from god every time. It was more important than winning championships. War eagle, RIP to a legend

I'll miss the Saban press conferences. I love how he just didn't have time for stupid questions.

Destroyed college football? No. Saban single handily changed the way other programs have to win. Saban created the blueprint for dominance and it’ll never been duplicated again. Ever.

Everybody look at it as a glorious day that his is gone. Everybody look at it as a miracle that Bama won't be dominant anymore. But im happy to say im bless to witness a dominant run in my lifetime. Things like this is great for football. To have a Thanos that you know you have to slay to become the champion is great. The way bama played was amazing to watch only something we see in video games.

Alabama's domination becomes even more frightening when you realize that even in the few times in which the Crimson Tide lost, it was more of them beating themselves due to mistakes than it was about their opponents actually defeating them. Only Clemson and Manziel could be said to have genuinely defeated Bama. Imagine the game against Michigan, how would have that game ended without Alabama's bad snaps?

Someone already did a great video on the history of college football. What I need is an explanation of the NFL decade by decade since the 70s.

Since 08, that Clemson loss is still the only time I’ve seen Alabama straight up lose a game. Every other loss has 15 penalties, 10dropped passes, a fumble, a INT, 2 Miss FGs and still lose by only 5pts. You can tell when Alabama will lose a game from the start, they just choke nonstop. Haha.

The most telling stat of how good Saban was as a coach is that he had double the number of first round draft picks as he did losses. As a Bama fan I am still in mourning but our future is bright with DeBoer

This is why the 86 Giants might be underrated. Simms in particular gets it together in 86, and roasts the Broncos for the title. If they don't do well that year, Parcells might not have lasted much longer...which means the staff gets fired too and so no Belichik to the Browns after 1990...which means no staff with Saban and all those dudes...and then who knows how the history of football after that point is affected. The 86 Giants basically set up decades of college and pro ball.

3:46 "When the committee paired them...." What committee are you talking about?? Bama played Florida because Bama was the SEC west champs and Florida was the SEC East champs b/c of their records. A committee had nothing to do with it.

As a long lived and die hard bama fan I remember the days before Saban and then the shakeup, Saban reminded us what it meant to live breathe and love football to not be okay with just surviving to push ourselves every DAY to work towards excellence at everything he set the gold standard and taught us to break it at every opportunity, what Alabama does now that he’s gone is up in the air but Saban forever changed football in every way I can imagine

Nice clickbait title. It worked, you got me. These are the times when I miss the # of dislikes being visible.

Nick Saban was mad that Deion Sanders stole a prospect from him, and then the NIL deal was made by the courts and suddenly lost his grasp on College football. Instead of convincing players to come into a winning program and an NFL farm, the players want the best NIL deals. (Somehow paying players under the table is easier than over.)

Couldn't have said it better myself I tip my hat enjoy retirement Nick Saban respect you for all you have done for college football 🏈🏈🤝🤝🤝..... University of Miami Hurricanes fan 🙌🙌🙌

Gotta be honest, you peaked my interest with the title. Thought it was gonna go another direction like I hear from basically everyone I know that cares about college football. Obviously I'm biased (if you haven't looked at my pfp, that explains it), but there's beauty in the dominance Saban had. I will always acknowledge and commend dominance no matter the team, or sport for that matter. I'm sad to see him go, but BOI was it a good run. I was in school there '15-'19. 1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd. Possibly the greatest four years to be at any school for college football. Love the content, btw. Roll Tide!

At 3:56 there's no committee involved here. It's like 5 years before the playoff and this is the 2009 SECCG.

Crazy how Bill parcels created 2 of the most dominant coaches. Bill and Nick

It says a lot when as an Arkansas fan if you could only lose by less than 2 touchdowns against Bama it was basically a win. It is also crazy to think that there are people about to enter college that have never not known Bama as a dominant football school.

As a Georgia fan everybody is saying the SEC is free now, and it probably is ngl, but there is just something sad about not being able to dominate our greatest rival on the way to the top. Pour one out to the goat man

ROLL TIDE!! Hail Saban forever! College football is everything here in Alabama, and Nick Saban took us to heights we couldn't even imagine back in the time of Bear Bryant! We are forever grateful to coach Saban!

Nick Saban Greatest College Football Coach of All Time 🐐🐐

Bobby Bowden's 90's FSU Team and Saban's Alabama. I don't think we'll ever see teams like this again.

It isn't a surprise that Nick wanted to retire after the rise of the Transfer portal and NIL deals.

3:38 2009 against Auburn was also a one score game

I am not a Bama fan, but growing up I always felt like if they weren’t ranked #1 the teams above them were imposters.

Nick Saban surpassed Bear Bryant’s teams and is definitely the Greatest Coach of all time. Which makes Michigans win against them this year so monumental…because they clearly beat the best team on the field over the last 17 years…

Just found the channel man love the vids keep it up

Excellent video! You earned my subscription. RTR!

Saban has a “sub-resume,” an Alabama fan’s list of Herculean tasks completed and vendettas settled that will endear him to the fanbase forever: (1) Put an end to the smirking Tommy Tuberville’s practice of holding up fingers to signify the count of Auburn’s consecutive wins over Alabama; (2) Ran Phillip Fulmer out of his Tennessee job, and out of coaching altogether; (3) Ran Urban Myer out of the SEC; (4) Beat Texas for the first time in program history.

Bama will still be a powerhouse unfortunately

It might be better said that NIL and the current transfer portal destroyed college football. Saban had nothing to do with either of those things.

As a Tide fan this was great video. I’m hoping Coach DeBoer can keep us relevant. Long Live Saban.

This is the best video about Alabama football of all time!!

Saban/Alabama deserves much of the credit, or blame depending on your point of view, for what the SEC is today.

I would really like to see Saban replace Lee Corso on game day. He has always been spot on with his analysis of the college football landscape, and now that he can be more unbiased I would really like to hear his thoughts weekly. He’s probably just going to stick to going on McAfee once a week which I’m fine with.

Great tribute!

I still find it pretty wild that during the 2023-24 season, Alabama was NEVER ranked Number 1 at ANY POINT.

Vol fan here. Know the terror yearly

For the last 17 years, if you won the National Championship, you had to beat Saban.

Gotta remember how he struggled to recruit at Michigan State, once he had a monopoly on recruiting in Bama his domination was inevitable.

Saban is the absolute GOAT because he never had to cheat to be so dominant. Others who did it the right way could only compete for short spans in comparison

Great video…leaves me speechless, Roll Tide

Isaac, you missed the loss to the University of Louisiana Monroe in his first year at Alabama. ULM was also an un-ranked school when that loss occurred.

10+ minute Isaac punts video? Sign me up

I’m a life long fan of Michigan along with my father and this year he was in disbelief and just not able to talk when we beat them. He was way happier about beating Alabama then even winning the national championship.

I’m an Auburn fan and can say that even though Saban is gone, we will still figure out a way to go 8-4.

4:17 Nice editing there bud

Well said! Gonna miss the goat.

Being a member of an elite team builds a boy into a man. Whether it be sports, the military, or a Bering Sea fisherman (raises hand). Go for it all boys. See what you're made of. Once you hit thirty.... be the best husband and Dad. Good luck out there. And DON'T make a baby with a stripper!

The title had me concerned 😂 cause not even a Bama fan but I could do nothing but respect and appreciate how Saban ran that program, and I don’t know if it’s something that can or will be duplicated again, cause you either watched to watch them lose or watched to just watch them be good as hell he will be missed.

Sometimes you need a damn good villain and Saban's Alabama certainly was that. Gonna miss that guy.

That 2014 game against A&M was the only game I saw Alabama play in person. I have never seen a team absolutely beat the shit out of another since.

I love that hes going in depth about alabama and the changing of college football, while the USSR anthem is playing in the background 🤣

21 hours in 1k likes and I was the 1000 I need the football history lesson for fun

As much as i cant stand bama ill say that at least hes probably a big part in way Kirby Smart is so good and now Georgia is the team to beat it seems like

He broke college football. Twice. Roll Tide Roll

Let's get this to 10k likes so we can get that full history of college football video

It always took your best game ever or a miracle to beat bama..and most times just to keep it close

You're right about one thing. He "destroyed" the HATERS! No one, nobody will ever do what Bama under Sabam did. Bama fans feel entitled. Anything less than a National Championship every year, we feel let down. No other team will ever come close to the number of titles we lay claim to. When Stallings crushed Miami ut was a rude awakening for college ball. We've gad Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings and now Nick Saban. We gave y'all Bart Srarr, Kenny "The Snake" Stabler and Joe Namath. Broadway Joe told the world "We're gonna Beat Baltimore" and lord behold. we did. You've obviously never been to Bama. Religion comes in 2nd to Bama football. WE'RE THE GOLD STANDARD THAT EVERYONE ELSE WOULD SELL THIER SOULS TO BE. All I can say is "Roll Tide" and that says it all.

Massive respect for Bama and the Tide. I'm not a fan, but I've never been a hater. Best wishes for Coach Saban in his retirement.

Nick Saban didn’t destroy CFB, it’s the lack of parity, with rules that only tend to reinforce the top end dominance that results in many fans just losing interest. The NFL understands this and has measures in place that tend to counter having a few teams w persistent dominance. Solutions? No clue, but something needs to be done.

5:19 saban never did this lolol

the alabama/forida game wasn't chosen by committee. it was the conference championship chosen by round robin in each division.

Saban's Alabama and Geno Auriemma's UConn are the greatest streaks of dominance in college sports history.

He retired, now its Sherone moore's turn. Go Blue!

Being an fsu homer, I had to interject and say fsu was the first to ever go wire to wire at #1 and fsu definitely deserved to be #1 at the start of 2014 considering they were national champions and had one of the most stacked teams in the country. But Saban was a great coach. But it’s no surprise he’s retiring now cause this NIL/ Transfer portal era was never going to be his strong suit. A whole bunch of programs have far more money than Alabama, and can offer better NIL deals not to mention conference realignment will make that "strength of conference" argument obsolete by 2026.

Saban coached a few teams. He did so better than anyone. He didn't destroy anything.

Love all these videos. Like Bamas done. Just wait yall ain't seen nothing yet.

I have a lot of respect for Saban. I hate him for beating my Hogs every single one of the 17 times he played us with Bama, but he is the GOAT among college football coaches.

Other factors to consider about Saban’s dominance in Tuscaloosa: Including his first season at Alabama, Saban never had a losing season. I don’t care what the NCAA says, we were 7-6 that year. I do not recognize vacated wins. If we vacate wins, then we vacate losses. And if you remove that first season, and take into account that Alabama was cheated out of 2 championship games due to shitty officiating in 2016 & 2018, we averaged a National Championship literally every other year. And yes the officials and Clemson cheated. I accept our 2014 loss to Ohio State, our 2021 loss to Georgia and 2023 loss to Michigan. I do not humor illegal pick plays (2016) and defensive pass interference (2018) being allowed. Whether we legitimately lost or not, Saban almost always got his revenge as well, the next time they played a team that previously defeated them. By my count, Saban went 23-2 in revenge games. That’s a 92% success rate in avenging losses. Those 2 losses were 1 possession losses and to other SEC teams. Finally, because of Alabama, SEC was the only conference to make the 4 team playoffs EVERY year in its existence.

Great video. ROLL TIDE

Not a member of the Tide nation BUT Saban is the 🐐of college football...no question. Alabama will be ok but it will never be this good ever again...there will never be another DARTH SABAN.

I'm not an Alabama fan, but they've dominated during my entire adult life so far

yessir

From the end of WW2 to the BCS, the only change was scholarship limitations. Contrast that to all the changes in the past 17 years. That's not a coincidence....

The Committees that chose national championships under the bowl alliance, the BCS and the CFP were all different organizations. So its a little misleading to say the same committee.

Old men used to say “I saw the bear with my own eyes.” Now I get to bounce my grandchildren on my knee and talk about seeing Nick Saban.

Fact check: 2009 they placed Texas in the BCS title, not Florida (SEC championship)

Editing glitch at 4:20 ??

They lost by two scores to Georgia in the Natl Title in 2021.

The committee didn't pair them against Florida that was the conference title game.... both teams had to win their division to play in that game

@9:22 😂 had so many players and fans looking like this

I forgot...Bama is where legends are born!

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LSU was the legit champ in 2003. A group of sportswriters gave a consolation trophy to USC

Like! 9-1 in SEC appearances, only the first time loss to FL. It was a holistic approach, find talented players and make them better. Run run run in practice so that games were easier. Adjust as often as needed. Have excellent Defense, notice that DC and OC of the last few years did not help AL cause. In 17 years appear in the playoffs/championships 11 times and win 6, lose a couple barely, lose the ability to go to the playoffs barely a couple of times. It was beautiful to watch. We all thought Nick would get seven at AL, so that he eclipsed Bear. He made a different decision ad best wishes! Don't believe AL teams will not be effective in the coming years even with all the transfers. Oh and on Clemson they were doped up until they beat AL badly in that one championship. After that look at Clemson, no more fast twitch supplements in "team" vitamins and they are average or worse since.

It’s easy to be dominant when you’re an academics-optional ‘school’ like alabama

"The committee paired Alabama with who they thought was number one. A Tebow led Florida." That was rhe SEC title game 😂 there was no committee that paired them.

I'm so happy it all ended after this past season when Saban retired. Now, Bama fans will face reality.

Will Jo Schmo to pro coming back after the Big Game?

Joe Tiller absolutely has a winning record against Saban pal

as a georgia fan i can say now that hes retired, saban is truly the goat hc of college football. i can also say thank god because we dont have to face him again

I am an lsu fan. My god I am so happy.

Actually 2 one-score games in 2009 vs Auburn 26-21

Erroneous! 1999 Seminoles went wire to wire #1