Tag: Nick Saban
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Lang’s World: Alabama May Be Down, But Never Count Out Nick Saban
For very many years, college football fans clamored for a Playoff. The NCAA, in all of their infinite wisdom, finally said, “Sure! Oh, but only four teams can participate — after all, we can’t make this too fair!” So now this time each year for college football fans, Tuesday nights have become as important as…
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Lang’s World: SEC Coach Power Ranking
I suppose you could argue that Saban is not the most creative or innovative coach in college football, but these days being a college football coach is as much about being the manager of a giant corporation as it is successfully installing a run-pass option.
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Lang’s World: Nick Saban has done it all. Now what?
Nick Saban is the greatest coach in college football today, and perhaps the greatest of all-time. As the head coach at Alabama, Saban enters this season with a record of 141-21 with the Tide. So what do you do when you’ve done all there is to do? What next?
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Lang’s World: Who’s In, Who’s Out of the College Football Playoff?
We are a dozen weeks into the college football season, and by now we have a pretty good idea of which teams have legit claims to the throne. So who deserves to be in the final four? As I see it, there are 10 teams with a legitimate claim to be invited to the small…
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Lang’s World: Amid college football chaos, Crimson Tide consistently rises above fray
Last weekend was a wild one in college football. Six of the top sixteen teams caught an L, which included four of the top eight teams. This traditionally means a big shakeup among the top 25, and this week’s rankings are no different, with several teams rocketing up the standings, while the losers settle into…