Nick Saban won’t be coaching in the national championship game for the first time in five years but he’ll still be in attendance.

The Alabama head coach is expected to play a prominent role in ESPN’s pregame and halftime coverage of Monday’s LSU-Clemson College Football Playoff national championship game, the sports network announced Thursday.

The current plan is for Saban to appear as part of ESPN’s “Championship Drive” pregame show starting at 6 p.m. EST alongside Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack. Saban is expected to be an active voice throughout the show leading up to kickoff from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. He will also appear as part of the halftime coverage breaking down the game of two teams he knows extremely well. The Alabama coach is the last one to defeat Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and one of the last two coaches, along with Jimbo Fisher who will also be featured in ESPN’s coverage, to beat LSU coach Ed Orgeron.

ESPN will offer seven hours of pregame coverage of Monday’s title game along with SportsCenter, First Take and Get Up! on-site coverage from New Orleans. Ohio State coach Ryan Day and former LSU running back Leonard Fournette are two other big names expected to appear as part of ESPN’s coverage that day.