The last time a football team coached by Kalen DeBoer lost two games by mid-October, his Washington Huskies suddenly went on a tear.
DeBoer and his current team, ninth-ranked Alabama, would love a similar run of sustained success after last Saturday’s dominant win at LSU, which was No. 14 in the AP Top 25 at the time before a seven-spot slide in this week’s poll.
As for those aforementioned Huskies, they went on to win 21 consecutive games after road losses to UCLA and Arizona State in 2022, a streak that extended all the way to last season’s national championship game before Washington lost in that College Football Playoff final to Michigan. DeBoer left soon after to replace the retired Nick Saban at Alabama.
DeBoer’s Crimson Tide, who are 7-2 overall, 4-2 in Southeastern Conference games and No. 9 in this week’s CFP rankings, get a reprieve from SEC play this week. Their opponent Saturday is Mercer (9-1), a Football Championship Subdivision program from Macon, Georgia.
Then, with a trip to Oklahoma ahead next week and Auburn visiting for this year’s Iron Bowl to close the regular season, it’s back to resuming the chase for spots in the SEC title game and the 12-team playoff