Georgia’s back-to-back national championships have begun to shift the balance of power in both the SEC and college football away from Alabama, which won six national titles from 2009-20.

Speaking Wednesday to The Next Round on the deck of the NorthRiver Yacht Club, Saban made an apparent reference to Georgia’s recent success when speaking about a book he is currently reading, “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization” by Peter Zeihan.

“I like history and I like cultural things,” Saban said. “It’s a very interesting book. Because it talks about cultures, how why they developed, why they developed because of circumstances, how people tried to — if you could develop something, somebody tried to take it from you, and how that historically sort of developed all the cultures through time and how it’s affecting us now, and how it will change the cultures that we have to live in the future. Pretty interesting to me, at least. Probably boring to most people.”

Host Jim Dunaway then told Saban the book sounded like a lesson to his team about building a football program and having somebody “trying to take it away from you.”

Responded Saban: “That’s been the case for a while now. Last couple years, they’ve — somebody’s been successful. We need to try to take it back.”

Saban was taking part in this week’s RISE tournament of champions in Tuscaloosa. The RISE Center, part of the university’s College of Human Environmental Sciences, serves children with disabilities and their typically developing peers.

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mikerodak.