How did Alabama go from playoff contention to a monumental collapse?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alabama was atop the college football world after slaying Georgia. But, along came Vanderbilt, and then Tennessee, and...Oklahoma? How did the Crimson Tide, in Kalen DeBoer's first season, go from sure-fire CFP contender to the Reliaquest Bowl? David Ubben and The Athletic's Alabama beat writer, Kennington Smith III, outline the Tide's late-season collapse, DeBoer's roster inefficiencies, and more in Alabama's exit interview.
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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Kennington Smith III (@SkinnyKenny_)
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| 0:48.7 | I am David Ubbin, and what the heck happened to Alabama this year. |
| 0:52.5 | The playoff is here, and it is happening happening and Alabama is not a part of it. |
| 0:58.5 | So what happened? |
| 0:59.2 | We're going to answer that question today. |
| 1:00.9 | An exit interview podcast with the athletics, stupendous crimson tide beatwriter, |
| 1:05.6 | Kennington Smith, the third, aka DJ Octane, aka Skinny Kenny. |
| 1:10.7 | Kenny, forget Alabama football for a second. |
| 1:15.3 | One of the great fine bomb caller years of all time, a lot of takes, a lot of anger. |
| 1:22.8 | Did you have any favorite moments, or how would you grade this season of fine bomb callers? |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, this was like A plus. I mean, fine ball, like, you know, you hear it all the time growing up |
| 1:31.7 | and I heard it, especially coming onto the beat, it's like there's no better appointment |
| 1:36.4 | television than Fine Bomb on Monday after an Alabama loss. And this season completely lived up |
| 1:42.4 | to that. I mean, how can you have this conversation without talking about legend? |
| 1:46.5 | And the series of rants that he had, and it's like the strike one, strike two, strike three, |
| 1:52.8 | all the analogies that he was putting together. |
| 1:54.9 | I mean, it was just, it was incredible. |
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