Anonymous coaches rip Saban as one of most overrated bench bosses

It seems four national championships and an .857 winning percentage at Alabama isn't enough for Nick Saban to escape the barbs thrown by some of his competitors.

In a recent series of interviews, an anonymous group of college football coaches voted the Alabama bench boss as the second-most overrated head coach in the nation, according to Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports.

Michigan's Jim Harbaugh took home the crown of most overrated with 13 percent of votes, while Saban was tied with Florida Atlantic's Lane Kiffin and Illinois' Lovie Smith with nine percent of all votes.

Two anonymous coaches took things a step further however, and blasted Saban for the praise he's received for heading arguably college football's most powerful program.

"Nick's got a lot of advantages. In (my conference), you could take five or six of us and get there a month before the season and win 12 games. There is a little f---ing machine underneath that stadium, and they grow them there," one coach said.

"We're going to have a war. You're going to have a howitzer, and I have a musket, and then every time we'll say that you're brilliant," another added.

On the flip side, Kansas State's Bill Snyder, the elder statesman of college head coaches, was voted the most underrated coach with a landslide 24 percent. Chris Petersen of Washington came in second with 15 percent of the vote.