Bleacher Report · May 15, 2018
Alabama's Nick Saban Says 'Self-Proclaimed' Champs UCF Didn't Earn Title
UCF finished last season with a 13-0 record, but Nick Saban isn't ready to concede the national championship that his Alabama squad won.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for their team and what they were able to accomplish," Saban said of UCF Tuesday, per George Schroeder of USA Today.
However, he didn't believe this was enough to justify the Knights' claim of being national champions.
"I guess anybody has the prerogative to claim anything," Saban added. "But self-proclaimed is not the same as actually earning it. And there’s probably a significant number of people who don’t respect people who make self-proclaimed sort of accolades for themselves."