Alabama football: What is Nick Saban’s record vs. LSU?
By John Buhler
Alabama football head coach Nick Saban has an impressive record vs. the LSU football team.
Though Nick Saban is the face of the Alabama football program, he used to lead the LSU football team back in the day.
A few years before he took his talents to South Beach, Saban was a transcendent head coach in Baton Rouge. From 2000-2004, Saban went 48-16 overall at LSU, 28-12 in SEC play, won two SEC Championships and won the 2003 national title. Two years after leaving Baton Rouge for the Miami Dolphins, Saban returned to the SEC West, this time to rebuild the awful Alabama program.
Since arriving in Tuscaloosa in 2007, Saban has transformed Alabama into the best college football program of the last decade-plus.
Alabama football: Nick Saban’s head-coaching record vs. LSU Tigers
Entering the 2021 game, Alabama has played LSU 15 times over the last 14 seasons. This includes a high-profile rematch in the 2011 BCS National Championship game. Since 2007, Alabama has gone 11-4 over LSU. While the Crimson Tide won the most recent meeting last season, LSU ended an eight-game losing streak to Alabama during their perfect season in 2019.
What is interesting from the Saban perspective is LSU had the upper hand over him until the national title. LSU won three of its first five games over its former head coach. Since the Crimson Tide pitched a shutout in the national championship game, LSU has only won one game in this annual rivalry series. Alabama has a commanding 54-26-5 lead all time vs. the Bayou Bengals.
Though LSU will occasionally nip Saban, the Tigers have not been so lucky to do so in recent years.
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