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Alabama's 26-10 Loss to Tennessee
Alabama's 26-10 loss to Tennessee exposes offensive struggles and coaching challenges.
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Alabama's 26-10 loss to Tennessee exposes offensive struggles and coaching challenges. Alabama's 26-10 loss to Tennessee reveals offensive weaknesses and coaching instability after a poor performance. Originally reported by Alabama Crimson Tide On SI.
Alabama's 26-10 loss to Tennessee
No. 6 Alabama was the inferior team for all 60 minutes on the field at Neyland Stadium in its 26-10 loss to No. 14 Tennessee.
Offensive Struggles
The offense looked dreadful. We may as well have been back in 2024, watching Jalen Milroe's complete inability to move the ball downfield.
Tide Up: Conor Talty
Talty hasn't missed a kick in 329 days. His 42-yard field goal before halftime was nice. Oh, he also made an extra point.
Tide Up: Dijon Lee
Lee's name will not show up on the front page of ESPN tomorrow morning, I won't have to dedicate half of my film study on Monday to his poor play, and Kane Wommack won't have…
Tide Up: Ryan Coleman-Williams
Coleman-Williams is the centerpiece of Alabama's offense. The success of Alabama's pass game revolves around the coverage he draws.
Coleman-Williams' Injury
It was reported that Coleman-Williams underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a meniscus injury he's been battling for the past few weeks.
Tide Down: Keelon Russell
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. That statement is directed at everybody in the college football world who decided to prop up a sophomore quarterback with six career starts as the next Bryce Young, Jayden…
Russell's Performance
Russell did what a young quarterback was supposed to do in this kind of test.He didn't flunk it.His legs were lethal, he tried to find guys downfield, and he still displayed his NFL-level release.
Tide Down: The Defense
Wommack compared his group to Alabama's 2015 defense less than a month ago. That's laughable.
Defensive Sacks
Yhonzae Pierre and Devan Thompkins, both of whom are being discussed as potential first-round draft picks, have combined for two sacks over the last two weeks.
Defensive Performance
Almost nobody is blameless.Caleb Woodson led the team with 11 tackles, he missed one on a nine-yard completion from MacIntyre to Mike Matthews.
Game-Altering Play
Ivan Taylor made a game-altering play with his second-quarter interception that set Alabama up in the red zone for its only touchdown of the day.
Tide Down: Kalen DeBoer
DeBoer is 7-6 in true road games. Alabama has lost multiple regular-season games in three straight years for the first time since 2005-2007.
Coaching Challenges
For the first six games of the season, he was. This week, he wasn't. Plain and simple.
Upcoming Challenges
Alabama has no margin for error. This team will have to beat preseason top-10 Texas A&M, LSU in a bona fide elimination game, likely at night, in Death Valley, Vanderbilt on the road in a…
Season Outcome
One loss, and the season is over. Is Alabama capable of running the table? Absolutely. Is it a likely outcome after what we saw tonight? Absolutely not.
What to remember
Alabama's 26-10 loss to Tennessee reveals offensive weaknesses and coaching instability after a poor performance.
