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Ever since USC and UCLA announced their plans to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, college football realignment has been a major talking point in the sports world. Of course, Alabama coach Nick Saban had to weigh in and he has concerns.
“My biggest concern is competitive balance,” Saban said on the Always College Football podcast. “The NFL—which I was involved in for eight years—every rule they have is to create competitive balance and if they could have every team go 8–8 so at the end of a season every team was playing their last game to get in the playoffs they would be ecstatic. Because how much fan interest does that create?
