Following a 9-4 finish in Kalen DeBoer's first season, expectations were high for the Alabama Crimson Tide in Year 2. But their 2025 college football season has started on a rough note.

Alabama entered the season ranked No. 8, opening on the road against the Florida State Seminoles. The Crimson Tide struggled from the opening whistle, falling 31-14 to an unranked team and never finding a rhythm on the road.

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It took just one game for DeBoer's coaching seat to get scorching hot. With questions about his future already surfacing, ESPN's Paul Finebaum weighed in on the current state of the situation.

"It was a shattering loss for Kalen DeBoer," Finebaum said on SportsCenter . "He had built up tremendous goodwill in the o

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