Ryan Day, Nick Saban Offer Final Thoughts On National Championship Showdown

We're one day away from crowning a national champion.

For one final time before their programs square off in Monday night's title game, Ryan Day and Nick Saban met with the media to toss compliments about each other's program back and forth.

A bullet-point rundown of what they said:

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Day calls Saban "one of the greatest coaches in the history of college football" and that the Buckeyes are excited for the "great challenge" to play Alabama.

He says it's "not the way we drew it up" but that they're grateful and excited for a shot to win a national championship.

Day called it "certainly a strange road to get here" after the path the Buckeyes took to get to the national title game.

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