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That SEC Football Podcast

Nick Saban NOT Returning & SEC 9-Game Schedule Coming: Interview with Chris Low of ESPN

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

Football, Sports, Games, Sports News, Leisure, News

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Chris Low ESPN College Football Senior Writer joins That SEC Podcast to talk some college football! Nick Saban is NOT returning to coaching (0:45), will the SEC go to 9-game conference schedule? (2:00), Biggest Week 1 game in the SEC? (6:30), Arch Mania: Best Manning yet? (9:00), Rocky offseason for Tennessee (11:15), Boo Carter hurt his odds at receiver? (14:30) Advertising inquiries: [email protected] Interested in helping us grow the channel? Become an Official Cousin by signing up for a membership to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aQL-yFS2ZoSkUBeMfYesA/join We have t-shirts for sale! Check out our merchandise store featuring shirts, hoodies, stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, phone cases and more: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/thatsecpodcast?ref_id=19055 All show music comes via Nashville band Crimson Calamity; check out their work by clicking the link below: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29HGeJEcYHBJlyt4xIcLBw?si=GJoEOr0YSoeqWkrjhCc0Ug

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0:00.0

The one and only Chris Lowe, you know him, senior writer, ESPN, college football.

0:15.9

Chris, it's always an honor to meet with you and talk with you.

0:19.6

How are you?

0:20.8

I'm great. It's good to be with you guys. As we talked about earlier, it's nice to be talking

0:24.7

on in football and not everything that's going on off the field. Well, hey, I know it's been a couple

0:29.0

of weeks. We ran into you at SEC Media Days, and this has already died down, but I did want

0:36.6

to ask you about Nick Saban, because, of course,

0:39.7

you're the guy that broke the news that Nick Saban was retiring.

0:44.2

And until Chris Lowe reports that Nick Saban's returning, I'm not believing anybody that

0:49.3

puts that out there.

0:50.8

Yeah, well, I don't think Nick's going to talk to anybody but his wife about any of that kind of stuff. But, no, I don't think, I don't think Nick's going to talk to anybody but his wife

0:56.0

about any of that kind of stuff. But not, you know, I don't have any reason to believe he's coming

0:59.9

back to coach football based on talks with, uh, him, people around him. And I know everybody says,

1:07.0

well, you never say never. And that's true. Paul Fombom asked me what if somebody comes

1:11.0

and wants to pay him $20 million

1:12.2

well then I think any of us would

1:14.6

listen that kind of cash but

1:16.0

he's certainly not contemplating a return

1:18.4

I don't think that's something that's on his mind

1:20.4

most importantly

1:22.3

I know he's very happy with his life

1:24.8

now he and his wife Terry

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