re: Bama fans, when Saban wins another title , will you rank him over Bear?

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I don't like the must win six national title argument. The two eras are not even remotely the same. I think what Saban is doing is much more difficult as there are several teams in the west division alone in the top ten: then if you manage the regular season you usually face a top ten east team and then face either the first or second best team in the nation for the title. Bear didn't have to overcome those odds. Sorry Saban is already more impressive to me and it's not really close.

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You definitely have a point. But the discussion doesn't end there.

In the BCS era, for an SEC team, you KNOW you are playing two elite games, and possibly more. Right now, Alabama's schedule is being mocked by LSU and we play FOUR elite games if we want to win it all. This was simply not the case in Coach Bryant's era. When you add in the fact that there is SO much more parity now, both in mid-level SEC teams and even in teams considered "easy", it's not close. Can you IMAGINE Coach Bryant watching Ole Miss pull in a class like this in his day? In national titles, I go with Saban. But you can't discount Coach Bryant's remarkable number of SEC titles.

Bottom line - no way to say definitively at this point. Coach Bryant would have to accomplish a similar feat in an age that guaranteed solid scheduling. Coach Saban would have to coach a lot longer to even have a chance at doing something comparable with the conference titles. Neither is clearly better than the other at this point.