Saban: Ohio State Fans Can't Get Excited About Chance To Win Natty Because Of Their 'Psychotic Obsession'

Ohio State fans and administrators have been in a weird place with head coach Ryan Day over the last month. Day and the Buckeyes lost at home to a sub-par Michigan team in the final day of the regular season, which was their fourth straight loss to their rivals from up north. However, they still made the playoffs and dismantled Tennessee 42-17 in the first round of the College Football Playoff last Saturday in a game that wasn’t even as close as the score indicates.

COLUMBUS - Quarterback Alex Orji #10 of the Michigan Wolverines runs with the ball during the first quarter of a game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium on November 30, 2024. (Photo by Ben Jackson/Getty Images)

What matters more … the rivalry with Michigan or a chance to win a national championship? Legendary Alabama coach and current ESPN analyst Nick Saban thinks that it should be the latter. He was asked about the situation with Day in his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Nick Saban, ESPN GameDay commentator, speaks prior to the game between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Washington Huskies at Memorial Stadium on October 26, 2024. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

"You know, we’ve kind of gotten on their, sort of, fans a little bit. But, you know, these Ohio State fans, they’ve got a psychotic obsession with Michigan and they need to go get therapy or something to try to get it fixed," Saban said. "They have a chance to win the national championship and here you are, you know, and nobody’s excited about their opportunity to play because they, you know, lost to Michigan, which was a tough game and they lost the game, probably, by some of the mistakes that they made so those are correctable things."

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