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The Alabama Crimson Tide college football team represents the University of Alabama in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Crimson Tide competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 28 head coaches, and 1 interim head coach, since it began play during the 1892 season. [1]
Before Saban, Alabama had no Heisman Trophy winners, and many players who competed at Alabama during Saban's tenure were also recognized for their on-field accomplishments. Mark Ingram II (2009), Derrick Henry (2015), DeVonta Smith (2020) and Bryce Young (2021) are Alabama's four Heisman Trophy winners, with Young taking 83% of voters. 76 ...
The Alabama football team in 1892. Among those labeled are head coach Beaumont (5), Bankhead (9), and Little (10). [1]University of Alabama law student William G. Little learned how to play American football while attending prep school in Andover, Massachusetts and began teaching the sport to fellow Alabama students in early 1892. [2]
And after Stallings stepped aside in 1996, Alabama would go through four coaches and an interim before Saban arrived and delivered his first Alabama title in 2009. DeBoer won’t get a decade-plus ...
As a college football head coach, Saban won seven national titles, the most in college football history. [17] His first came when he led the LSU Tigers to the BCS National Championship in 2003. He then coached the Alabama Crimson Tide to BCS and AP national championships in 2009, 2011, 2012, and to College Football Playoff championships in 2015 ...
Nick Saban’s coaching reign has come to an end. Saban, who won seven national championships — more than any major college football coach — and turned Alabama back into a national powerhouse ...
Alabama has had 28 head coaches since organized football began in 1892. Adopting the nickname "Crimson Tide" after the 1907 season, 12 coaches have led the Crimson Tide in postseason bowl games: Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Harold D. "Red" Drew, Bear Bryant, Ray Perkins, Bill Curry, Gene Stallings, Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Shula, Joe Kines, and Nick Saban. [7]
Nick Saban's retirement brings down the curtain on the career of a modern legend of the sport of football, let alone the college game. The University of Alabama coach had huge shoes to fill in ...