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The full ballot was\u00a0released\u00a0for the 2025 class of the College Football Hall of Fame this week.<\/p>\n
While 77 players were nominated, just nine coaches had the honor and two of them were arguably the two best coaches of the era in Nick Saban and Urban Meyer.<\/p>\n
But according to SEC Network and ESPN\u2019s Paul Finebaum, the two aren\u2019t even remotely on the same level.<\/p>\n
During his weekly appearance on The Opening Kickoff, Finebaum was asked which of the two coaches he would pick if he could only vote for one, and he did not mince words when it came to answering.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s very easy because one coach has won seven national championships and has been exemplary in everything that he\u2019s done and stood for. He\u2019s been someone who is a beacon of integrity, and the other one is basically just the worst of everything imaginable,\u201d Finebaum said when comparing the two.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has lied, he has misled,\u201d he said of Meyer. \u201cI realize Urban Meyer has won three national championships, but beyond that it\u2019s embarrassing for him to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Nick Saban.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meyer of course had a ton of success pretty much everywhere he has been, winning two titles at Florida and one at Ohio State. But according to Finebaum, if you\u2019re trying to compare the two, Meyer doesn\u2019t even come close to the status of arguably the greatest to ever do it in Saban.<\/p>\n
If you want to hear Finebaum\u2019s full segment, you can check it out right here and get all of our on-air content at WNSP NOW<\/a>:<\/p>\n https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0cnVGT1kWs1DKWQJUBXfNO?si=29e4ab3d4f484105<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"