Nick Saban Provides Reason For Hope In New Era Of College Football

New ESPN employee and former Alabama coach Nick Saban stopped by the "Pat McAfee Show" Friday afternoon, where he detailed the advantages of the expanded College Football Playoff.

Nick Saban clearly never had an issue operating under the four-team playoff rules and dominated that era of college football. He won three CFP titles, made the first five playoffs and seven of the first eight. Even in his final year, Saban still got Alabama to the playoff.

Even though expansion arguably would have hurt Alabama's chances at the title under Saban, forcing them to play at minimum one extra game in the postseason, he really loves the new rules. He explained to McAfee why.

"What the 12-team playoff does, to me, is give a lot more teams hope," said Saban. "There's got to be 25-30 programs out there right now, five or six teams in each conference probably that have a great chance to make the playoff in some form or fashion, even if they don't win the conference championship."

With more teams involved later in the year, and more fanbases heavily invested, the college football postseason should be as exciting as ever, per Saban.

"I think that's a great thing for college football," he continued. "It's a great thing for fans. It's going to certainly create more interest nationally, especially late in the season. There's going to be more of that hope in college football."

Nick Saban really loves the added parity for the sport In having another eight teams playing for all the marbles to end the year.

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