Nick Saban threw his support behind a bipartisan bill designed to regulate college sports during a Senate hearing Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the SEC and Big Ten said the legislation still needs work.The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Protect College Sports Act, sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas-R) and Maria Cantwell (Wash.-D), lasted just over three hours.“I’m not here representing a conference or a team but to preserve college athletics as a whole,” Saban said in his opening testimony.Saban touted the bill for creating “competitive balance.”“If you had the biggest, baddest Ferrari that you could ever have, and it was going 150 mph toward the Grand Canyon, someone needs to tap the brakes,” Saban said of college sports. “That’s what we all need to do here.”Along with Saban, lawmakers heard from Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua, Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould, former Ohio State and West Virginia president Gordon Gee and current Utah football player Lance Holtzclaw.The Protect College Sports Act would allow the NCAA to limit transfers and eligibility, enforce a spending cap, give conferences the option to pool their television rights and prevent coaches from leaving their teams before the end of the season. It also includes language to prevent a possible breakaway “super league” by the Big Ten and SEC.