Why can’t Saban make up his mind?

Is it just going to be two weeks of dumb trolling?

He's right.

myth

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First he says that no team has any business playing for the national championship unless it won its conference.

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Fake news. This is what he actually said back in 2003.

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"I don't think anyone will know who the legitimate national champion is unless all three teams in consideration get the opportunity to play one another," LSU coach Nick Saban said.

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Or you might be referring to this quote.

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Said LSU coach Nick Saban, "We're the only two (contending) teams in the country that had to play a 13th game. We had to do a little bit more to earn the right."

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But Saban has never said a team that didn't win their conference shouldn't have the right to play for a national championship.

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First he says that no team has any business playing for the national championship unless it won its conference. Then he says not winning the conference doesn’t matter.

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It is really according to the situation at hand.

SEC Office

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How did that NFL trip work out for him?

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About the same as it did for the other 3 coaches who coached that shitty Miami team over the last 15 years

Tragic.

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It’s astonishing LSU fans do this to themselves every year. They’re like poorly programmed robots which go through one failure sequence after another, each year.

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It also makes zero sense for Saban to ever say a quote of that nature. First of all, Saban has never been in a situation where a team that failed to win their conference has been in position to jump his team when they're in position to play for a national championship. The closest was in 2003 but the #2 spot was between LSU and USC, two teams that won their conference. OU, the team that didn't win their conference was ranked #1 and was never in danger of not making the National Championship Game. Second, why would Saban say a quote that essentially trashes a team he was going to play in the NCG (2003 Oklahoma)? And if he said it after the 2003 NCG, he would be essentially discrediting his own team for winning a championship under those circumstances.