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Nick Saban Adds to His Legacy With Victories Over No. 3 Georgia, His Former Assistant and COVID-19 in Same Week

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Just when you thought that Nick Saban’s legacy in the sport of college football couldn’t get any more profound, any more dazzling, any more awe-inspiring, we present the second week of October in the Year 2020.

In the same week, the soon-to-be 69-year-old coach beat a former assistant for a 22nd time, the No. 3 ranked team in the land and COVID-19.

Decades from now, long after we’re all gone from this Earth and when our children’s children run this world, history will look at this 2020 college football season and wonder aloud: What in the hell was going on?