Paul Finebaum Outlines Kalen DeBoer’s Hot Seat Heading Into 2026

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“If he misses the playoffs, that’s the bare minimum. It used to be winning the national championship. Now, it’s making the playoffs and avoiding a 35-point loss like he did last year in the Rose Bowl,” Finebaum said. “It was the surrender in the fourth quarter by Alabama that still has Alabama fans angry. They’ve never seen that before from the Crimson Tide.”

“I’ll spare you the ‘I think Kalen DeBoer is a good football coach.’ I think everybody does. The question is, ‘is he going to win a championship at Alabama?’ And my answer is no,” Finebaum said. “In the last 60 years, only three people have won national championships, two of them happen to be the greatest coach of all-time on the day they retired. At Alabama, you can be unique, you can be different, but Kalen DeBoer, to me, just doesn’t have the right ingredients to win the title there.”

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