Kalen DeBoer hot seat talk premature, but his Alabama bandwagon is empty Blake Toppmeyer and John Adams, USA TODAY NETWORK September 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM 0 The Kalen DeBoer bandwagon has emptied out. It's been left to rust, and if you're left holding stock in DeBoer, it's trading at a 52week low.
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Blake Toppmeyer and John Adams, USA TODAY NETWORK September 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The Kalen DeBoer bandwagon has emptied out. It's been left to rust, and if you're left holding stock in DeBoer, it's trading at a 52-week low.
Alabama has 60-plus million reasons (aka DeBoer's buyout) to stay the course with its beleaguered coach, but there's no denying this much: There's trouble in Tuscaloosa.
DeBoer is swimming upstream against a strong current after Alabama got whipped by Florida State in the season opener.
On this edition of "SEC Football Unfiltered," a podcast from the USA TODAY Network, hosts Blake Toppmeyer and John Adams discuss whether this result puts DeBoer on the hot seat. They're dumping the idea of Alabama making the playoff, while increasing their stock in two SEC teams that showed promise for a higher-than-expected ceiling.
Also, the hosts react to Arch Manning's lackluster performance in Texas' loss to Ohio State, and Adams stumps for a certain SEC team to be ranked No. 1 in the polls.
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Is Kalen DeBoer on the hot seat at Alabama?
Toppmeyer: It's tempting to say yes, after the Script A translated to awful in the season opener. It's not just that Alabama lost. The Crimson Tide got bullied. The rushing yardage differential (230 to 74) tells you everything you about how this went. Alabama has become an opponent that you can talk trash to and get away with it. But, there's the matter of DeBoer's buyout. If Alabama fires DeBoer after this season, it would owe him the second-largest buyout in college football history. As bad as it might seem right now for Alabama fans, I don't think the Tide have found the rock bottom that would be necessary to swallow that buyout after Year 2. DeBoer's in trouble, but hot-seat talk remains a bit premature.
makes his final pick on ESPN's "College GameDay" prior to the game between Ohio State and Texas at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State won the game, 14-7.
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Adams: I sprained my ankle springing free of the DeBoer bandwagon during that debacle in Tallahassee. Is Alabama drilling for oil? If not, does Texas A&M have any funds leftover from firing Jimbo Fisher (at a cost of $76 million) that it could loan Alabama? My gut tells me Alabama isn't too eager to shell out more than $60 million to fire DeBoer at a time when schools also need money to pay their athletes. So, I wouldn't label DeBoer as being on the hot seat just yet, but the fact that we're using the words "hot seat" and "buyout" in the same sentence with a coach who's only 14 games deep into his tenure should tell you how this is going for DeBoer.
Week 2 picks against the spread!
Toppmeyer's five-pack of picks (picks in bold):
∎ San Jose State at Texas (-36.5)
∎ Arkansas State at Arkansas (-23.5)
∎ South Florida at Florida (-17.5)
∎ Kansas at Missouri (-6.5)
∎ UCLA (-2.5) at UNLV
Season record: 3-2
Adams' five-pack of picks (picks in bold):
∎ San Jose State at Texas (-36.5)
∎ South Florida at Florida (-17.5)
∎ Mississippi (-10.5) at Kentucky
∎ Louisiana Tech at LSU (-37.5)
∎ Kent State at Texas Tech (-48.5)
Season record: 2-3
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Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network's national college football columnist. John Adams is the senior sports columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Subscribe to the SEC Football Unfiltered podcast, and check out the SEC Unfiltered newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox.
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