The college football offseason circus is officially underway with the grand ringmaster taking center stage.

Alabama coach Nick Saban officially called out Texas A&M and took a swipe at Jackson State for paying student-athletes to come to their schools to play football.

Saban -- who claims the Tide didn’t pay any of its recruits -- was very much intentional in his remarks, which are sobering:

“We were second in recruiting last year. A&M was first. A&M bought every player on their team. Made a deal for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player.

“Jackson State paid a guy a million dollars last year that was a really good Division I player to come to school. It was in the paper. They bragged about it! Nobody did anything about it.”

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