No pressure, Steve Sarkisian, but it’s about time a Nick Saban disciple other than Kirby Smart rises to the occasion this deep in the season.

Here’s hoping he’s prepared for the heft — both literally and figuratively. None of the four coaches left in the College Football Playoff have won a national title. But one of them will join an elite fraternity in less than three weeks,

Now that the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is down to four teams remaining — the size of the field the previous 10 seasons — things really don’t look that much different.