From Tribune staff reports
TUSCALOOSA — According to ESPN’s Chris Low, Alabama’s Nick Saban is retiring as head coach of the Crimson Tide.
Saban led Alabama football for 17 years.
According to rolltide.com, in his 28 seasons as a collegiate head coach, Saban has compiled a 292-71-1 (.803) record, including a 201-29 (.880) mark in Tuscaloosa. His teams at Alabama have won nine SEC Championships while he has 10 SEC titles to his name (2001, 2003 at LSU) to go along with seven national championships (2003 at LSU).
His Alabama teams have posted a 128-13 (.908) record with eight SEC titles and four national championships in the last 10 seasons (since 2012), which is the best of any major-college school over a 10-year span since Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma in the late 1940s through the late 1950s and his Alabama teams from 2011-2020 (.914 winning percentage). UA’s 125 wins in the 2010s were also the most for any FBS school during a decade in the Associated Press Poll era (since 1936).
In Saban’s six national championship seasons at Alabama, his teams have gone 21-2 against top-10 opponents, and, since 2008, the Crimson Tide is 35-12 overall against top-10 teams. Alabama has also been ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press Poll for at least one week for 14 straight years, which broke the record of seven established by Miami (1986-92)