The legendary status of Nick Saban continues to reach new heights even after his retirement. Simply put Coach Saban was the ultimate mentor, leader of men, immovable object, unstoppable force,... Coach. To be THE coaches coach. Nick Saban is the GOAT pure and simple.

Georgia - Kirby

Ole Miss - Kiffin / Golding

Miami - Cristobal

Indiana - Cignetti

Oregon - Lanning

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Posted by TideSaint

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 12:46 pm to PowHound

Except us.

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Posted by FightingOkra

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 12:52 pm to PowHound

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Oregon - Lanning

That's a reach imo. He was a grad assistant for one season. I'd put him more in Kirby's tree than Saban's.

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Posted by PowHound

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 12:57 pm to FightingOkra

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That's a reach imo. He was a grad assistant for one season. I'd put him more in Kirby's tree than Saban's.

Kirby literally just copied everything Saban did to the point of taking photos of everything he could on the way out the door. Lanning was learning everything that Kirby learned from Saban. Saban reinvented the entire college football world.

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Posted by Pastor Mike

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 12:59 pm to PowHound

Did we loan Grubb to Tex. Tech today???

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Posted by PuertoRicanBlaze

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 1:12 pm to PowHound

Just feel it's appropriate to note our coach has a winning record against two on this list. Most likely would be undefeated if he didn't have 13 players out in one of the meetings.

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Posted by Chancellor

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:26 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze

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Just feel it's appropriate to note our coach has a winning record against two on this list.

GOAT.

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Posted by PowHound

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Posted on 1/1/26 at 6:21 pm to TideSaint

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Except us.

Cignetti took care of that. Ruthlessly took care of it. His team played like Bama teams under Saban. DeBoer football is soft football.

Cigs team just dominated the trenches, protected the football, played sound physical D, ran the ball, distributed the ball, just flat out kicked the shite outta Bama in all three phases of the game.

All the teams left in the playoff come from Saban Tree.

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