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TNR 12/18/25 - Hour 1 | Alabama Now the Underdog at Oklahoma?

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The Alabama Crimson Tide is in action Friday night at the Oklahoma Sooners in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. Alabama Football is now a 1.5-point underdog to Oklahoma Football for the game in Norman. Why has the point spread flipped? College Football Playoff Eve! Is the CFB Playoff becoming harder to win than the basketball national championship? Alabama injury update Cory Reamer previews Alabama vs. Oklahoma PLUS, Tyler's Viewing Menu presented by Michelson Laser Vision! SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - / @nextroundlive FOLLOW TNR ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-7759604 FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com #SEC #Alabama #Auburn #secfootball #collegefootball #cfb #cfp #football #sports #alabamafootball #alabamabasketball #auburnbasketball #auburnfootball #rolltide #wareagle #alabamacrimsontide #auburntigers #nfl #sportsnews #footballnews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:16.0

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0:24.3

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0:27.5

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0:30.8

Ryan Brown, live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.

0:36.7

The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.

0:45.0

All right, we're going to get to a lot of stuff on the show today because these guys have worked it out where I'm going to be in Oklahoma tomorrow morning on the show. So 24 hours from now, I'll be somewhere in Oklahoma. Hopefully outside of, what do they call it, the palace on the prairie? Is that what they call it? Yeah, the palace is what they call that stadium. I've never understood that. It's not a palace. It's nice. It's kind of small for that program. But it's been remodeled. Yeah.

1:12.0

And it added on to since the last, you haven't been there since. No, I have not. You know, they were doing the renovations then. So, you know, yeah. And so the hell, that was over 20 years ago. So like, I mean, we say it was newly renovated. It was renovated 20 years ago. It was newly renovated for us. Yeah, for, since the last time I was there in you, 2002. So we'll be there on the, on game day tomorrow. Because today's the eve. I'm going to forget the games tomorrow night. You guys will have to remind me on the show tomorrow. Don't go back to your hotel and take a nap. Stay there in Norman because it's game day. Are you just going to stay all day in Norman? I gave him that kicked from seven. I don't know. I don't know. I may stay in Bricktown and do the show from Bricktown. We'll play that by year. So I don't know if Brooks in the back room was able to find this. Is this the first Friday night game in Alabama football history? Oh, interesting. I'm going to say no.

2:02.8

I'm going to say it was an odd one at the Crampton Bowl or at Ladd Stadium in Mobile.

2:07.0

They used to play those weird games, but I don't know.

2:09.5

And I also don't know if you consider these night games or not,

2:12.2

but the Iron Bowl was on Friday in 2009.

2:14.9

That was a Black Friday.

2:17.4

Out the window, because I was a black Friday. You remember.

2:18.4

Never been darn it. Out the window.

2:19.3

Because I was thinking Aloha Bowl in 85.

2:22.0

For some reason, I thought that was on a Friday.

2:24.1

And then bowl games over the years, January 1st or December 31st would have fallen on

2:28.9

Fridays.

2:29.7

I will say, Lance, Alabama is 2 and O in the college football playoff on Fridays. Oh, interesting. That's a trend in England. Cincinnati and Notre Dame. Ooh, they played really well. They play a lot of Friday games. They really have recently, in fact. I'd forgotten that that 09 Iron Bowl, the Tiger Woods game. And the 10 game, actually, was on Black Friday. Oh, I loved it.

2:51.0

You know why?

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