Nick Saban is the primary inductee of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class.
The ESPN “Faculty GameDay” crew shocked him with the announcement throughout Friday’s pregame present for the College Football Playoff matchup between Ohio State and Texas on the Cotton Bowl.
Saban’s election to the Corridor of Fame was a no brainer. He received six nationwide championships throughout his 17 years at Alabama and a seventh at LSU, the place he coached 5 seasons. Saban compiled a 201–29 document in Tuscaloosa, profitable 9 SEC titles. He retired from teaching after final season. Earlier this 12 months, the Alabama board of trustees voted to name the field at Bryant-Denny Stadium after him.
Total, Saban completed with a 297–71-1 document as a school coach with stints at Toledo (9–2), Michigan State (34–24–1), LSU (48–16) and Alabama. His seven nationwide championships are the most all-time amongst FBS coaches, whereas his win whole ranks fifth all-time. He received 11 SEC championships and one MAC title.
In 28 seasons as a school head coach, Saban by no means had a dropping season. He coached 66 first-team All-People and 4 Heisman Trophy winners. (Moreover, 52 of his gamers had been first-round NFL draft picks, whereas 136 of them had been chosen.)
Saban, 74, is the fifth Alabama coach to be elected to the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame, becoming a member of Gene Stallings, Frank Thomas and Wallace Wade. He’s additionally the sixth LSU coach, the sixth from Michigan State and the second from Toledo to be inducted.
Saban was considered one of 9 coaches on the 2025 ballot, together with City Meyer, Tommy Tuberville and Larry Coker. The 77 gamers on the poll embrace Penn State’s Ki-Jana Carter, Iowa’s Dallas Clark, Pittsburgh’s Aaron Donald, Alabama’s Mark Ingram, Oklahoma’s Josh Heupel and Syracuse’s Marvin Harrison.
The remainder of the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame class of 2025 can be introduced on Jan. 15 throughout ESPN2’s “Faculty Soccer Stay.” The 2025 class can be formally inducted on Dec. 9 in the course of the Nationwide Soccer Basis Annual Awards Dinner in Las Vegas.
