Alabama Football will need continued one-score game success from Kalen DeBoer
Kalen DeBoer has been a master at winning close games. Alabama Football will need that mastery in the 2024 season.
Success for Alabama Football in the 2024 season will come down to how well the Crimson Tide does in close games. Based on current betting odds, four of Alabama’s regular season games will have a spread of 4.5 points or less. The Crimson Tide is the favorite in three of the games but at 2.5 points or less.
In Nick Saban’s 17-season run in Tuscaloosa, the GOAT was 30-20 in one-score games. Take away six Alabama, one-score losses in the 2007 season, and Saban was 30-14; 68.2%. Kalen DeBoer was 8-0 in one-score games last season with the Washington Huskies. In DeBoer’s nine seasons as a head coach, his overall one-score games record is 26-6; 81.3%.
Coaching the NAIA program Sioux Falls for five seasons (2005-2009), DeBoer was 10-2 in one-score games; 83.3%. Winning close games was key to DeBoer leading Sioux Falls to three National Championships in the five seasons.
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In October and November, in what are projected to b close games against Tennessee, LSU and Oklahoma, Kalen DeBoer’s close game magic will be tested.
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