Colorado's Deion Sanders says he, not Nick Saban, is best coach in college football today

Colorado coach Deion Sanders had high praise for Alabama's Nick Saban on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night. But that doesn't mean he thinks the seven-time national champion is the best coach in college football.

Sanders was during his interview who he thinks owns that moniker for the 2023 college football season. His answer should be no surprise:

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"Let me see a mirror, so I can look at him," Sanders said.

"You feel that?" responded "60 Minutes" interviewer Jon Wertheim.

“What, you think I'm gonna sit up here and tell you somebody else?” Sanders replied. “You think, you think that's the way I operate? That somebody else got that on me?”

Sanders is still a relative newcomer to being a coach, but has seen success at every level so far. The Buffaloes are off to a 3-0 start in Coach Prime's first season at the Power Five level, and have been the talk of college football so far in the 2023 college football season. Sanders previously went 27-6 at Jackson State prior to his stint at Colorado, winning SWAC titles in 2021 and 2022.

Even so, the Colorado coach praised Saban, who has won six national championships in Tuscaloosa and who stars as Sanders' co-star in insurance company Aflac's ad campaigns.

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“I love and I adore and I respect and every time I do a commercial with Coach Saban,” Sanders said. “It's a gift. Just sitting in his presence and hearing him and — and throwing something else out there so I can hear his viewpoint on it. Because he's forgotten more things than I may ever accomplish. So I'm a student looking up to this wonderful teacher saying, 'Just, just, just throw me a crumb of what you know.'"

Sanders and Saban have worked together with Aflac for the last two seasons. The two previously clashed over Saban's accusations that Sanders paid $1 million to a player to attend Jackson State, but it sure seems like everything's been smoothed over.

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