?Alabama coach Nick Saban has developed an extensive coaching tree, and with his former longtime assistant Kirby Smart entering his first season at Georgia, we look at what Saban has done against former assistants as the countdown reaches nine days until the start of the first full week of college football.?Saban is 9-0 against former assistants and has dominated on those occasions, with all nine wins coming by 14 or more points. Three of those wins are at the expense of former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley. Two of them occured at the end of last season.?Smart and Saban are already butting heads on the recruiting trail, with cornerback Maurice Smith gaining a graduate transfer waiver to follow his old coordinator from Bama to Georgia. Eventually, Smarts and Sabans teams will likely meet on the field, but it wont happen in the regular season this year. The two teams arent scheduled for a regular-season game after playing last year.In 2016, Saban doesnt face any former assistants on the regular-season schedule.?Floridas Jim McElwain and South Carolinas Will Muschamp will fight it out with Smart in the SEC East for a chance to potentially find Saban waiting in the SEC championship game. ? ??In case you missed any part of our countdown:10 days: Temples 10 sacks in win over Penn State last season11 days: Navy won a school-record 11 games last season12 days: Alabama has won 12 straight games, the longest active FBS streak.13 days: Lucky number 13 for a trio of teams last season.14 days: Boise State has played in 14 straight bowl games.15 days: Kansas has lost 15 straight games, the longest active FBS streak.16 days: Peyton Manning wore No. 16 for Tennessee.17 days: TCU QBs completed 17 of 17 passes in a game in 2012, an FBS record.18 days: Ohio State has won an FBS-best 18 consecutive road games.19 days: There are 19 head coaches at their alma mater this season.20 days: It has been 20 years since Florida won its first national championship.21 days:?Oklahoma led the nation in average scoring margin (21.5) last season.22 days: Ohio State has been in the top 10 of the AP poll for 22 straight weeks.23 days:?Virginia Tech has played in an FBS-best 23 straight bowl games.24 days:?In the first game of the historic rivalry, Navy beat Army 24-0.25 days:?Michigans Desmond Howard won the Heisman 25 years ago.26 days:?Arkansas State led the nation with 26 interceptions in 2015.27 days: Clemsons Greg Huegel led the nation with 27 field goals in 2015.28 days: Adrian Peterson wore No. 28 for Oklahoma.29 days: Alabamas Bryant-Denny Stadium opened in 1929.30 days: Miamis Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman 30 years ago. Aaron Dell Sharks Jersey . The CFLs leading rusher kept adding to his gaudy numbers this season and scored the winning touchdown with just over two minutes to play. The New Westminster, B.C., native plowed three yards into the end zone for the last score of a heated, see-saw battle between the two teams with the best records in the CFL. Kevin Labanc Jersey . After Martin Skrtel put the Reds in front from close range at Stamford Bridge after only four minutes, Hazard hit back in the 17th with a superb strike. Etoo gave Jose Mourinhos team a decisive lead from Oscars back pass in the 34th. http://www.officialsharksnhlshop.com/ . Reassurance came from Paul Tesori, his caddie and close friend whose newborn son is in intensive care in a Florida hospital. "Paul sent me a text this morning, just told me he loved me and wanted to go out and fight as hard as I would any other day," Simpson said Sunday after doing just that. Brenden Dillon Sharks Jersey . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season. Tomas Hertl Sharks Jersey . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. Purdue has not reached a bowl game since 2012, the year before coach Darrell Hazell was hired. After five games, the Boilermakers have earned three of the required six wins needed to become bowl eligible in Hazells fourth season.ESPNs Football Power Index favors the Boilermakers in none of their remaining seven games and ggives them an 11 percent chance to become bowl eligible.ddddddddddddMark Schlabach and Brett McMurphy both leave out the Boilermakers in their bowl projections?entering Week 7.?--?John Wilmhoff ' ' '