"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.

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.

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

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.

Now that he's retired, Saban is headed for immortality. On Friday, Saban's College GameDay colleagues informed him that he would be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Saban was a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame and it was clearly only a matter of time before he got in. As Pat McAfee said in the clip above, Saban is widely regarded as the greatest coach in the history of college football and he has the accolades to show for it.

The selection criteria stipulate that a coach is eligible immediately if he retires at the age of 70 or older. Saban is in that group, and to the surprise of exactly no one will b