LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne took a shot at Nick Saban during her appearance on College GameDay Saturday.
The social media sensation and boyfriend and Tigers alum Paul Skenes were given the honor of appearing as the guest pickers on the ESPN program as Pat McAfee and co. visited Baton Rouge ahead of Saturday’s rivalry showdown between LSU and Alabama.
And the rivalry simmered over onto the panel as the influencer took a cheeky dig at former Crimson Tide head coach Saban.
While Dunne and Skenes, an MLB pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, made their picks together – becoming the first couple to do so in the history of the program – she had the task of announcing their victor for the matchup between Vanderbilt and South Carolina.
And in doing so, she used the opportunity to throw shade, throwing Saban’s own words back at him.
Olivia Dunne took a shot at Nick Saban during her appearance on College GameDay
Dunne and Paul Skenes were guest pickers on ESPN’s College GameDay this weekend
‘Someone once said that Vanderbilt was the easiest place to play in the SEC,’ Dunne said while looking at Saban. ‘But not today. I’m going with Vanderbilt.’
The quip was a dig to Saban’s previous criticism of the Commodores earlier this year.
‘The only place you’re going to play in the SEC that’s not hard to play, Vanderbilt,’ the former coach said on the Pat McAfee show earlier this season.
‘When you play at Vanderbilt, you have more fans there than they have, and that’s no disrespect to them, it’s the truth.’
Saban’s former team, the Crimson Tide, went on to lose to Vanderbilt in Tennessee on October 5.
The panel was clearly left impressed by Dunne’s trash talk with McAfee letting out an entertained exclamation at her zinger.
