Nick Saban says modern college football has a leadership vacuum and needs a true commissioner with real power. Here’s what he wants to change—and why it matters now.
Nick Saban might be done patrolling a sideline, but he isn’t done challenging the sport he helped define.
Now an analyst on ESPN’s College GameDay, the seven-time national champion is pushing a simple, sweeping idea: college football needs a real boss. Not a committee, not a loose alliance of conferences—a single commissioner with authority over the entire sport, backed by a competition committee that can standardize how the game is run.