Nick Saban joined the Pat McAfee Show Thursday and was asked about the mountain of change that has taken place across the CFB landscape the past few months.

McAfee noted to Saban a comment that Chip Kelly made about the Pac-12 drying up quicker than Bed, Bath and Beyond. In the past few years alone the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC all made announcements that new teams will enter the conference in the next few years.

Saban thinks there could be some pending problems down the road for college football. Here’s what he told McAfee:

“I think it’s going to continue in the same direction that it’s going until something happens, I call it a thunderbolt, where maybe people start dropping sports because the finance part of it can’t make sense in terms of what you can reinvest in non-revenue sports. Or, some players out there don’t get what they were promised and there’s lots of lawsuits and stuff. There is going to be some kind of a thunderbolt because this is not a system that we have right now that has any guardrails, and in most competitive venues there are some that control what you can and can’t do.”

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Alabama will face off against No. 1 Michigan on Jan. 1 for a spot in the College Football Playoff against either Texas or Washington.