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Michigan-Texas might’ve been the game of the day in college football, but it wasn’t the game of Nick Saban’s day.
As the final seconds ticked away in the Longhorns’ blowout win over the Wolverines, the legendary Alabama football coach was already at Bryant-Denny Stadium, waving to a raucous throng of Alabama fans, having just been at Michigan Stadium a few hours earlier. Nobody could’ve blamed Saban if he hadn’t made it to his field − his name is now on it, after all − in time for the pregame dedication of Saban Field. There was a second ceremony at halftime of the Crimson Tide’s 42-16 win over South Florida, witnessed by a bunch of his former players who attended the game, that would’ve made for a far easier travel day.
But even in retirement, Saban knows how to keep a tight schedule.
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We know he was in Ann Arbor, Mich., at 11 a.m., and not yet at Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, either. He was on the field in the Big House, as it’s called, on the set of ESPN’s “College GameDay,” when it signed off right before the Michigan-Texas kickoff. And we know the gray Mercedes that whisked him into the driveway that separates University Boulevard from the Walk of Champions outside Bryant-Denny Stadium arrived at 2:29 p.m. right on time for the dedication scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
That’s three hours and 29 minutes from UM’s field to UA’s; coincidentally, 3:29 was the official length of the Texas-Michigan tilt.
Of course, ground transportation is different for Nick Saban than anyone else.
One can only assume that ESPN’s vast resources assisted him with a quick getaway from Michigan Stadium to Ann Arbor’s airport on the front end of the trip, and the familiar Tuscaloosa police escorts − two on motorcycles, in this…
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2024-09-08 05:06:28
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