Two of the best college football teams in history are the 2008 Florida Gators and the ’09 Alabama Crimson Tide. Those are a couple of squads that Nick Saban and Urban Meyer remember quite clearly looking back on their careers.

“I’ve always said the SEC Championship Game is almost like a playoff game,” Saban said in a clip shared by Mark Ingram. “But the thing I loved about the ’08, ’09 teams from our perspective at Alabama, those guys all came to Alabama when we weren’t very good.”

The overall success obviously is what calls the most attention two these two squads looking back over the past decades, but it was also the type of players that spawned out of them.

Saban listed off multiple names of players who joined the Crimson Tide looking to raise the bar and prove themselves, including Dante Hightower and Julio Jones. Looking back on Florida’s side, there were several great players who made up arguably one of the best teams in college football history.

Moving forward into a new era, if and how Alabama can reach the glory that it formerly had under Saban with Kalen Deboer now at the helm, will be very telling of who college football’s true dynasty team now is.