🏈 Alabama football: Nick Saban receives Bobby Bowden National Collegiate Coach of the Year Award

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Saban is the first two-time recipient of the award. He also won it in 2009, after leading the Crimson Tide past Texas in the BCS Championship Game. Auburn's Gene Chizik won the award last year.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- In a banquet hall nestled deep in the Birmingham suburbs, Nick Saban managed a chuckle. He’d been there before.

And at least one important person believes the Alabama football coach will be back again. For the second time in its three-year existence, Saban was honored as the Bobby Bowden National Collegiate Coach of the Year.

“I’m just proud to have someone like him win this darn thing,” said Bowden, whose 377 wins ranks second in major college football history. “I think maybe me and him meet here, and we won’t invite y’all.”

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