Fittingly, Urban Meyer and Nick Saban are going into the Hall of Fame together
It only makes sense that the two-best coaches of this generation are headlining the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class.
For years, the debate raged: Urban Meyer or Nick Saban?
The two giants of the game lorded above an entire generation of college football. They combined for 10 national titles and tallied 19 conference titles between them. Both won national titles at multiple schools. They split their four meetings against each other, 2-2.
To win it all, the thinking went, you were going to have to get by one — if not both — of those coaches, a seemingly insurmountable task.
Fittingly, both are now being recognized as college football immortals.
Meyer and Saban are part of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class, a 22-man group that features 18 players and four coaches. The National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame announced the news Wednesday.
“We are thrilled to announce the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class,” NFF chairman Archie Manning (HOF Class of ’89) said in a statement. “Each of these legends ranks among the absolute best to have ever played or coached the game, and we look forward to adding their incredible accomplishments to those permanently enshrined in the Hall of Fame.”
This year’s Hall class will be officially inducted at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 9 in Las Vegas.
That Meyer and Saban will go into the Hall together is poetic, as you can hardly tell the story of the sport this century without them.