Following his legendary tenure as Alabama's head coach, Nick Saban will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class.

Legendary former coach Nick Saban was surprised with the news of his induction to the College Football Hall of Fame on Friday. The announcement came during Saban's appearance on the ESPN pregame show leading up to the Cotton Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal between Texas and Ohio State.

Nick Saban will be inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame. This is not news to anyone who has paid attention to college football over the last 20 years, but it came as a delightful surprise to Saban on Friday night when he learned his induction will take place in 2025.

"I didn't know anything about it," the seven-time national championship coach jokingly said after he was told of his selection.From NFL plays to college sports scores, all the top sports news you need to know every day.

Nick Saban is the first inductee of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class. The ESPN "College GameDay" crew surprised him with the announcement during Friday's pregame show for the College Football Playoff matchup between Ohio State and Texas at the Cotton Bowl.

The former Alabama coach and seven-time national champion learned he would enter the College Football Hall of Fame before Friday’s Cotton Bowl Classic kicked off. Saban received the news from the ESPN College GameDay crew, which was at AT&T Stadium for the College Football Playoff showdown between Texas and Ohio State.

While all the current College Football Playoff hype centers around Ohio State's Cotton Bowl semifinal win against Texas, former Big Ten-turned-SEC icon Nick Saban learned on College GameDay that he'd been accepted into the 2025 Hall of Fame class.

Former Alabama football coach Nick Saban was surprised by the news of his hall of fame selection on ESPN's College Gameday.

The National Football Foundation announced on Friday that former Alabama football coach Nick Saban has been selected as part of the 2025 class of the College Football Hall of Fame. Saban is the first of the 2025 class to be announced.

Prior to kickoff of Friday night's College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Cotton Bowl between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Texas Longhorns, an announcement was made as part of ESPN's "College GameDa