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Report: Alabama head coach Nick Saban is retiring

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Report: Alabama head coach Nick Saban is retiring

Alabama head coach Nick Saban, regarded as arguably the greatest college football coach ever, is expected to retire, ESPN’s Chris Low reported Wednesday.

Saban, 72, joined Alabama ahead of the 2007 season and spent 17 seasons there. He went 206-29 with the Crimson Tide, winning six National Championships and 11 SEC Championships. Alabama finished 12-2 in 2023, losing to the eventual National Champion Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.

He began his coaching career at Toledo before earning the head job at Michigan State, where he spent five seasons. He eventually went to LSU, where he won his first National Championship at 13-1 before quickly moving onto the NFL, becoming the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

Saban then returned back to the SEC to Alabama, where he built one of NCAA’s most powerful dynasties. Outside of his inaugural season in 2007, Saban never won fewer than 10 games and finished with more than two losses in a season just once–in 2010 (3).

He retires with the fifth-most wins all-time, eight shy of 300 (three shy if you include the seven wins vacated in 2007). The only head coaches with more are Pop Warner, Alabama great Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno.

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