Five teams entered the Top 25, including No. 17 Kentucky for the first time since 2007.

'Considerably the best team I've seen in pads or on film in a long time.'

'We make all of our decisions here based on winning. Whoever we feel will give us the best opportunity to go out there and win, that's who we're going to play.'

'Why do you continually get me to say something that doesn’t respect one of them?'

Saban continues to insist that he's going to give both guys a chance to show what they can do.

Nick Saban can deliver the best players to Alabama year after year.

'The Crimson Tide is just the second team to be ranked No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll for three straight seasons.'

Nick Saban is keeping quiet, but sources are talking...

'For me, no one came up to me the whole spring, coaches included, no one asked me how I felt. No one asked me what was on my mind.'

For the 2018 season, Saban will make $8.3 million in salary alone and before he reaches any bonuses or incentives. No other college football coach makes even $8 million with Ohio State's Urban Meyer the closest at $7.6 million.