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Nick Saban sounds alarm with 2-word condemnation of college football

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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.

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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.