Over the following few weeks, members of the class of 2025 will be welcomed to the Florida Gators’ campus. The majority of the 2024 class has already signed, thus the Gators are only actively pursuing a select few players from that cycle. As a result, attention begins to concentrate more on the class of 2025, about whom the Gators have only received one verbal commitment t
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Fortunately, Vanderbilt was able to dodge Alabama and Nick Saban most of the time. However, the Commodores never defeated Saban in the five games played between his tenure with the Crimson Tide and at LSU. In reality, the combined score of the previous three games was 148-3. When Vanderbilt and Saban last faced off in the 2022 SEC season opener, Vanderbilt lost 55-3 to Alabama despite giving up 628 yards of offense.
After Missouri joined the SEC in 2012, it played Nick Saban and Alabama four times. In three of those meetings—including the 2014 SEC Championship Game, where Alabama easily defeated the Tigers 42–13—the Crimson Tide was rated first. The most recent meeting took place in 2020 when Missouri traveled to Tuscaloosa to kick off the pandemic-shortened season. Running back Najee Harris scored three touchdowns to help the Crimson Tide win 38-19.
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In all, just eight SEC schools managed to win more than once under Saban while he was at Alabama and LSU. Oklahoma and Texas, two soon-to-be SEC newcomers, combined to lose 4-3 to Saban. As the conference heavyweights fought it out for supremacy in the SEC, the greatest college football coach in history faced off against teams like Auburn, Florida, Georgia, and LSU in several memorable games. In those encounters, the Crimson Tide frequently prevailed, particularly when they were rated first in the country under head coach Nick Saban, with an 88-10 (.898) record.
Nick Saban has the most national titles of any college football coach in history as he wraps up his illustrious career. Six of the victories came while he was at Alabama, and one came in the early 2000s while he was at LSU. With a total record of 161-33 (.829) versus the SEC, Saban dominated competition for more than 20 years. He became one of the only coaches in league history to win a conference championship at two different schools when he won 11 SEC Championships, along with Bear Bryant.
of their plans to attend this weekend is a priority target for the staff early on in the 2025 class. That is 2025 defensive lineman Jalen Wiggins.
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While Florida will kick off the start of the ‘Contact Period’ this coming weekend with their first Junior Day of the offseason, they are going to be having prospects in town on other days and weekends. One person who has notified Swamp247 of their visitation schedule for January 15 is Isaiah Gibson, a Top100 edge from Warner Robins, Georgia. He intends to travel to Georgia this coming Saturday, January 13, in addition to his intentions to visit Florida on Monday.
After the ‘Contact Period’ for recruiting opens this next weekend, the Florida Gators will get right back to work. Since most members of the 2024 class signed during the Early Signing Period in December, the class of 2025 will now receive most of the attention when it comes to high school rankings. The first Junior Day of the offseason for the Florida Gators is this coming Saturday, and several big names have already confirmed that they will be there.
