Nick Saban had to be bleary-eyed when he popped in for a Zoom conference early Tuesday morning. His Alabama Crimson Tide were at Hard Rock Stadium until well past midnight just a few hours earlier, waxing Ohio State 52-24 to win Bama’s sixth national championship of the Saban era.
So Saban had to be tired. But his thought process remained strong. Saban was asked about expanding the playoff, and Saban gave a great answer.
“I have mixed emotions about expansion,” Saban said “I always said way back when, when we started this whole playoff thing, even when we started just having a two-team national championship game, that this would reflect poorly on players' interest in playing in bowl games.