MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Former Florida coach Steve Spurrier went to speak at a high school clinic in Alabama in 2016 soon after he stepped down from South Carolina in the fall of 2015.
Spurrier chatted up his old friend and foe, Nick Saban, and Spurrier offered a prediction: “You will coach here until you lose three games in one year,” Spurrier recalled with a laugh in a phone interview on Monday afternoon.
In the five seasons since Spurrier’s prediction, Saban has lost five total games. And on Monday night, Saban won his sixth title at Alabama and seventh overall national championship to become the coach with the most national championships in the history of college football.