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Pat McAfee suggests renaming national championship trophy after Nick Saban
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Pat McAfee thinks college football needs to honor Nick Saban.
Name the national title trophy after the former Alabama coach.
Ahead of Monday night’s title fight between Ohio State and Notre Dame, McAfee gushed about the season that was — 134 teams down to just 2 — before suggesting the College Football Playoff rename the national championship trophy. Currently, it is simply called the CFP National Championship Trophy. For years, the champs lifted The Coaches’ Trophy. But we haven’t seen an NFL-like trophy name during the era of the title game.
“They should absolutely think about it,” McAfee said.
To which host Rece Davis responded: “Commissioner? Name the trophy after you? What else?”
And Saban wryly shot back: “I don’t need any of those jobs.”
Saban has been pitched as a potential college football commissioner for weeks now. Penn State coach James Franklin pitched the “Commissioner Saban” idea last month. Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly seconded that suggestion over the weekend.
It’s a role befitting of one of the great champions of the sport. But Saban would have to want it. Renaming the national title trophy after him might be a smaller nod to his legacy. Saban currently holds the record for national championships won by a single coach, with 6 of his 7 titles coming at Alabama from 2009-20.
Derek Peterson does a bit of everything, not unlike Taysom Hill. He has covered Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Pac-12, and now delivers CFB-wide content.
