FSU football has had plenty of success against the man they will face on the other sideline during this season’s massive opening week game.
While the 1990’s were a decade that was run by FSU football, the current one has arguably been run by the Alabama Crimson Tide and their head coach, Nick Saban. Over the last seven seasons, the men from Tuscaloosa have won three national titles and played for another to become the dominant team in college football.
For all the national titles, SEC crowns, national award winners and NFL draft picks that Saban has been able to put together over his coaching career in both the SEC, Big Ten and elsewhere, the man considered to be one of the best ever has not been able to do one thing – he hasn’t been able to defeat the Florida State Seminoles.
When Alabama and FSU football knock heads in just over a week and a half, it will be the fourth time that a team with Saban as an assistant or head coach has faced the Seminoles – and all three times before, he has come up empty handed.
In 1981, Saban was a defensive backs coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes when the Noles went into Columbus during their schedule of hellacious road games and won. In 1987, Saban was the defensive coordinator for another Big Ten school, Michigan State, when Florida State came out on top of the Spartans.
The last time FSU football faced Nick Saban was in 2007 – his first year as the head coach at Alabama – when the Seminoles upset the Crimson Tide in Jacksonville thanks to an offensive second half flurry by the first year offensive coordinator for the Noles – a guy by the name of Jimbo Fisher.
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Yes, I know some are going to say I am stretching considering how stacked this year’s Alabama team is. Don’t get me wrong, this is a talented Crimson Tide team. But let us also not forget that the 2007 Seminoles weren’t exactly the best thing since sliced bread and they still got the win. This year’s Florida State team is also stacked and ready to keep Saban’s losing streak going.