When Alabama takes on Ohio State tonight for the national championship in Miami, there are a pair of historic achievements on the table for the Crimson Tide.

Coach Nick Saban is looking for his seventh national championship, while the program is looking for No. 17. SEC Network host Paul Finebaum shared his thoughts on the magnitude of the setting for Saban and Alabama on his regular appearance on “The Roundtable” on WJOX 94.5 in Birmingham, Alabama.

“I think you have two different things going on tonight. You have the possibility of Alabama, with a dominating win being considered the greatest team in college football history,” Finebaum said. “More important than that, I think it’s absolutely going to happen with an Alabama win, you have the coronation of Nick Saban as the greatest coach of all time.”

If that is, in fact, the case, it would come in an undefeated season where Alabama dispatched of 11 SEC opponents, then knocked off a one-loss Notre Dame team convincingly before this game with the Buckeyes.

“I say that because others have said it before, I even said it in the aftermath of the win against Georgia, but it just seems more fitting now,” Finebaum said. “That was an instant reaction and there’s always debate, especially considering the two coaches in the running were both at the same school. There’s a sentimentality toward Coach (Bear) Bryant that I have and that most people in the audience have, but to me a win tonight removes any doubt. He ties Coach Bryant at Alabama, which really isn’t the goal, it’s the seven national championships that would be the most significant part. Nobody else has done that. I know Dabo Swinney is listening and Clemson may think he has a shot, but he doesn’t, nobody’s ever going to reach this type of mark.”

Finebaum noted that legendary college basketball coach John Wooden is often in this conversation, especially with Bryant, but the ESPN analyst added that Wooden, “did that in a very compact period of time. He did it in about a 12 or 13-year period. Same for Saban. … That’s what separates him, and this is not an easy period of college football. I think it’s more difficult now, because you can’t just claim a national championship, you have to win a national championship.”