It’s far from the fairytale beginning Alabama Crimson Tide fans hoped for after the Nick Saban era. Kalen DeBoer’s opening game for the 2025 season couldn’t have gone much worse, as his Crimson Tide stumbled to a 31-17 defeat at the hands of Mike Norvell’s Florida State Seminoles. The axe isn’t just dangling; it’s swaying dangerously close as the Alabama head coach has already signed up for a brutal task. ESPN’s Harry Douglas didn’t mince words: “You have to follow a legend like Nick Saban, and you don’t make the College Football Playoff in your first year. You don’t play for an SEC Championship. I tell you one thing, fans are not gonna wait.” And it’s not just the analysts circling. Even Thomas Castellanos couldn’t resist tossing shade at DeBoer’s Alabama.

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