Nick Saban is calling it a career.
The longtime Alabama head coach told his team on Wednesday afternoon that he was retiring, according to multiple reports.
Saban, 72, spent 17 seasons at Alabama and built one of the best programs in the sport's history in Tuscaloosa. He won six national championships there, three of which came in the College Football Playoff era. He most recently led the Crimson Tide back to the playoff this year, though they fell to Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
Saban got his college start at Toledo, where he spent one season in 1990.