Coming off a national championship win over Notre Dame last Monday, the Buckeyes are feeling themselves, but the feeling couldn’t have been any more different nearly two months ago when Ryan Day, the Buckeyes’ often-criticized head coach, was nearly run out of town.

Nick Saban gave an impassioned defense of Ohio State head coach Ryan Day on “College Gameday” on Monday that seemed to come from an all too familiar place for the former Alabama coach. Day took severe heat for the Buckeyes’ loss to Michigan in the final week of the regular season,

The greatest college football coach of all time, Nick Saban patrolled the sidelines in East Lansing from 1995 to 1999 before he left Michigan State for Baton Ro

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In the hours preceding Ohio State's eventual national championship victory, it was hard not to be transfixed watching a 6-foot-1 freshman quarterback throw the ball. Spend a minute watching Julian Sayin throw the ball and you understand why he was ranked the No.

Nick Saban joined the The Pivot Podcast this week and was asked if he would coach football again in the future.  Saban retired from coaching more than a year ago after 17 years with the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Sure, Alabama was able to dominate college football during Nick Saban's prime from playing by the rules. I don’t doubt Nick Saban was ethical during the peak of his coaching career at Alabama. He doesn’t seem like the type to pass money back and forth in brown paper bags to sway a player to choose Tuscaloosa over anywhere else.

Saban went 7-3 in his career in national championship games. Here’s the two least enjoyable cities he coached in.

The Buckeyes defeated Texas, 28-14, in the Cotton Bowl to get to the championship game. Notre Dame defeated Penn State, 27-24, in the CFP semifinals at the Orange Bowl. The College Football Playoff National Championship Game can be seen on ESPN.

Nick Saban is defending Ohio State football coach Ryan Day from the haters who want Day fired. Day just won the national championship.

However, what came after that loss was the stuff of legend. Ohio State won four straight games against daunting opponents to wind up lifting the College Football Playoff national title trophy at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta after beating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 34-23 on Monday night.

The first season of the post-Nick Saban era in Tuscaloosa was and up-and-down affair for the Alabama Crimson Tide. New Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer led Alabama to a thrilling victory over the Georgia Bulldogs early in the season.