Nick Saban on Georgia, College Football: "We Need to Try and Take It Back"

Saban is looking to return to the top of the college football world after back-to-back national championships won by the Bulldogs.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — For a while, the Alabama Crimson Tide was thought of as the premier program in college football.

Rightfully so — the Crimson Tide won national championships in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020.

However, the Georgia Bulldogs have a strong argument to be on the throne at this moment — winning the last two national titles.

Many national writers and commentators agree that the Bulldogs are the new standard in college football — much to the demise of Alabama and head coach Nick Saban.

Even though the Crimson Tide won the title just three years ago, it feels like a pivotal year for Alabama — who will look to once again overtake Kirby Smart and Georgia.

Saban is fully aware of that.

On Wednesday's episode of "The Next Round," Saban talked about many things, including his current book of choice — “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization” by Peter Zeihan.

"I like history and I like cultural things,” Saban said. “It’s a very interesting book. Because it talks about cultures, how why they developed, why they developed because of circumstances, how people tried to — if you could develop something, somebody tried to take it from you, and how that historically sort of developed all the cultures through time and how it’s affecting us now, and how it will change the cultures that we have to live in the future. Pretty interesting to me, at least. Probably boring to most people."

The host of "The Next Round," Jim Dunaway, told Saban that it sounded like the book was a potential lesson or motivation for his group this season — about having somebody take something away from you.

It's safe to say Saban agreed. He didn't state the program he was talking about specifically — but it seems fairly obvious.

"That’s been the case for a while now," Saban said. "Last couple years, they’ve — somebody’s been successful. We need to try to take it back."

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