Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer sees the 2024 season differently than most of the Crimson Tide's loudest critics.

Although DeBoer’s season wasn’t the worst first year for a Crimson Tide coach, it snapped a streak of 10-win seasons. Alabama had won at least 10 games for 16 straight seasons. The last time the Crimson Tide didn’t win 10 games was in 2007, Saban’s first year.

Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer had every reason to play backup QB Ty Simpson in a ReliaQuest Bowl loss to Michigan. He explains why he never did.

TAMPA, Fla. — No one expected Michigan football to come into Raymond James Stadium and upset the vaunted Alabama Crimson Tide. However, the Wolverines took the Jan. 1 game against Alabama and did so again on Dec. 31 to close the calendar year.

The Alabama Crimson Tide ended their 2024 season in ugly fashion, falling 19-13 to the Michigan Wolverines in the ReliaQuest Bowl on Tuesday afternoon at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Alabama finished 9-4,

Washington improved. It won 14 games in 2023, beating Texas again in the College Football Playoff in the Sugar Bowl before losing to Michigan in the CFP national championship game. Days later, DeBoer was named as Nick Saban's successor with Alabama football.

Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide are fresh off finishing the worst college football season that fans have seen since Nick Saban's first year back in 2007. The Tide finished 9-4 on the year following a disappointing,

Alabama football went out with a whimper in the first season without Nick Saban manning the sidelines. Kalen DeBoer and the new-look Crimson Tide suffered a disappointing 19-13 defeat at the hands of Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl.