On Monday, ahead of the college football national championship game between Indiana and Miami, legendary Alabama football coach Nick Saban explained why the Big Ten had been so successful recently.
An Indiana win would give the Big 10 three straight national champions, and Saban said the new era of college football, with paying players and the transfer portal, gave Northern schools an advantage because Southern players would never go play in the North unless they were being paid.
“To me, in this day and age of the culture we have now in college football, paying players, name, image and likeness, transferring, it’s an advantage for the Big Ten," Saban said on ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show." "I don't care. You’ll never convince me otherwise. ... The North. Because people in the South would not go to the North unless you paid them.”
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