re: Is Nick Saban the luckiest coach ever?

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Osborne had three undefeated championship seasons in four years, his overall record is pretty similar to Saban, granted the former coached at Nebraska his entire career

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Haha Osborne is overrated as frick. They played nobody. He won less than 35% of his games vs top 10 teams in final poll and only 45% vs teams ranked top 10 at game time.

Bowden was 38-44 vs top ten teams and that includes all the years he was building his program. In the years after he built the program where they finished top 5 for 14 straight years, he was much much better.

Osborne took over a program built by others. Bowden built from the ground up and was not scared to go play big teams on the road. Whenever and wherever was the motto.

Osborne feasted on an overrated big 8 which saw OU down significantly during his best year and a big 12 with a rebuilding Texas and OU a dumpster fire. Osborne also cheated his arse off ushering in the steroid program and using partial qualifiers when nobody else could.