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By Chris Novak on

The Alabama Crimson Tide are one of the top football programs in the nation. That was true before Nick Saban and certainly could be after. But while Saban was in Tuscaloosa, the Tide were never better.

Alabama won six National Championships under the legendary Saban, who called it a career earlier this January. Saban retired from coaching after Alabama lost to the Michigan Wolverines in the epic 2024 Rose Bowl Game.

The University of Alabama will now go to great lengths to honor Saban. After reports emerged this week, the university Board of Trustees voted to give Saban one of the highest possible honors: They’re naming the field after him.

Following the BoT’s vote, the stadium in Tuscaloosa will now be known as Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The Tide officially announced the move with a post on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.

Alabama’s decision to honor Saban comes as no surprise. The impact he made was felt statewide, not just at the university level, or even at an athletic or football level. His unprecedented success turned the Crimson Tide into a monstrous powerhouse in the 2010s. They were often feared and rarely fazed, and a lot of that was not only talent, but Saban’s coaching and teaching.

The college football world had plenty to say about the Nick Saban announcement Alabama made.

[Alabama Football]

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Chris Novak has been talking and writing about sports ever since he can remember. Previously, Novak wrote for and managed sites in the SB Nation network for nearly a decade from 2013-2022

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