Livvy Dunne Took A Shot At Nick Saban During Saturday's College GameDay
11/09/2024 12:34 PM
ESPN's "College GameDay" was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Saturday ahead of the big game between Alabama and LSU in the SEC.
The two teams have identical 6-2 records to this point in the season, and Saturday night's game could mean the difference between a College Football Playoff appearance and a standard bowl game for each program.
The stakes are high, but that didn't prevent one of Saturday's guest pickers from having fun at a panelist's expense.
LSU national champion gymnast Olivia Dunne took a shot at GameDay cast member and former Alabama coach Nick Saban with her comments on another college football matchup.
Dunne picked Vanderbilt to beat South Carolina, and she mentioned Saban's infamous comments on Vanderbilt being an easy place to play for opposing teams in the SEC.
Livvy Dunne takes a shot at Nick Saban-Vanderbilt comments👀
— On3 (@On3sports) November 9, 2024
"Someone once said that Vanderbilt was the easiest place to play in the SEC… But not today. I'm going with Vanderbilt."https://t.co/83Y5cUhcTIpic.twitter.com/BGa01jdiBb
"Someone once said that Vanderbilt was the easiest place to play in the SEC," Dunne said, looking at Saban on the desk. "But not today. I'm going with Vanderbilt."
Dunne's comments come after Saban's remarks on The Pat McAfee Show earlier this year.
"The only place you're going to play in the SEC that's not hard to play, Vanderbilt. When you play at Vanderbilt, you have more fans there than they have, and that's no disrespect to them, it's the truth," the former coach told McAfee.
Saban's comments came before Alabama lost to Vanderbilt on the road this season, something that never happened in his near two-decade tenure at the program.
The Crimson Tide are now clinging to an outside chance of being selected for the College Football Playoff as an at-large team, but that will likely depend on their ability to win out over the rest of the season.
With games against teams like LSU, Oklahoma and Auburn left on the schedule, it may be easier said than done for the Crimson Tide to end the year at 10-2.
We'll see if Dunne's prediction for Vanderbilt is accurate in Saturday's game against South Carolina. The 6-3 Commodores are ranked No. 24 in the country, and they're set to play in their first bowl game since the 2018 season.
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