Can Brother move closer to Bear?

Only one person in history has won more national titles than Monongah High graduate Nick “Brother” Saban, Alabama’s football coach.

Brother & Bear

And that is Paul “Bear” Bryant. Bear, the porkpie hat guy on the sidelines, has won six. Brother has four, and his Alabama team will play Clemson at 8:30 p.m. Monday in University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on ESPN for a possible fifth national crown.

Bear has a 323-85-17 record, 78% victories.  To go with his six national championships, Bear won 14 Southeast Conference championships at Alabama and one Southwest Conference championship at Texas A&M.

Brother won one national title at LSU and three at Alabama, where his record is 104-18 with four SEC championships and three national championships.

Fittingly, Brother is among the seven nominees for the Bear Bryant Award for college football's Coach of the Year this season. Brother won the Bryant Award in 2003.

A win over Clemson would be Brother’s fourth national title in seven years.

He quarterbacked Monongah High to the 1968 state football title, one of five for the Lions. MHS also won state crowns in 1952, 1955, 1969 and 1973.