Nick Saban is undefeated when facing members of his expansive coaching tree. The most recent defeat of a former pupil came on the grandest stage of college football as the Tide came from behind to beat former Bama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart’s Georgia team for Saban’s sixth national championship. That brings his record to 12-0 against his former assistants, and Saban’s teams have outscored those of his pupils by an insane 453-135.
That kind of record is mind-boggling when one considers the plentitude of Saban acolytes filling the college coaching ranks today. Almost a third of SEC coaches coached with Saban at some point in their careers (those being Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher, Tennessee’s Jeremy Pruitt, South Carolina’s Will Muschamp, and the aforementioned Smart at Georgia), and yet, none of them have ever bested The Man.