Stay off the drugsI disagree with that. It's not possible to quantify such a thing. In a sport during his tenure was simply a beauty pageant of rankings and or the four prettiest teams, again the beauty pageant...and zero road games north the Mason Dixon line post Halloween...
I also remember quite well his average at best tenure in East Lansing.
He coached Sparty 5 years. If you remove his final season his record there was 25-22.
His final season at MSU was a 9-2 campaign. Those first 4 seasons were basically .500 football
Who was better than Saban?
Leahy, Rockne, Bryant, Paterno...
But in modern times...
Urban Meyer was definitely better.
His HC record is much more impressive than Saban's record.
They both sucked in the NFL so that's a wash...
But Meyer should've won a NC at Utah.
They destroyed everyone in 2004 by a LARGE margin and had zero schedule fillers unlike most of Saban's Bama career.
At the very least Utah should've been playing USC for the title but the fat cats back then only wanted to include the elite special club teams in the BCS title game.
Utah and USC shared some common opponents that year with very similar outcomes.
USC had a 3 point win over Stanford.
USC had a 6 point win over Cal.
Utah's closest game was a 14 point win
Meyer..and I'm not all giddy about him...
He was better than Saban and IMO not a difficult decision.
Better winning percentage,
Should've had titles at three schools..
That all said I wouldn't have either of them ranking teams.
What a real ranking needs are people with football knowledge who wouldn't be biased and or loathing teams and or conferences , etc.
Good luck with that.
A playoff format has to expand because then the more teams allowed in the less humans can mess up the participation of such.
College is too big to have an NFL standings type of situation for the post season.
But the more participants in the playoff the less chance of getting it wrong. The rankings won't be right but playoff participation will be close to being correct and that's all we want is deciding things on the field.