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In case you didn't follow the Tide today: >🏈All that whining about Alabama being No. 5 in the first CFP rankings. Then the Tide went to Death Valley as a six-point underdog and won by 18. >🏈Bama247's Mike Rodak calls it Alabama's biggest upset in 18 years. The closing consensus was LSU -6. >🏈Keelon Russell went 17 of 24 for 206 yards, 3 TDs and no picks after getting imaging and returning with his left ankle taped. - “I wasn't gonna just sit there and let my team starve.” >🏈Kalen DeBoer on Russell: “He's a stud. He was not getting pulled off the football field.” >🏈LSU outgained Bama 457-285, doubled up the Tide in first downs, had fewer penalties AND lost by 18. >🏈LSU went 0-for-4 on fourth down and scored one TD on four red-zone trips. Kane Wommack's defense added four sacks. >🏈Luke Metz picked off Sam Leavitt with 28 seconds left in the half to keep it 10-3. Lane Kiffin put that one on his QB (my clip in replies). >🏈Alabama's receivers had 1 catch for 9 yards at halftime. Then Rico Scott's 57-yarder flipped it, and DeBoer said “the big play to Rico sparked us”. >🏈Ryan Coleman-Williams, back from his knee injury, scored a 1-yard TD and set up Cederian Morgan's 25-yard TD with a 32-yard punt return one play earlier. >🏈Then RCW conducted the Million Dollar Band through Yea Alabama (vid in replies). >🏈Noah Rogers recovered LSU's muffed punt, and special teams coordinator Jay Nunez came running for a hug. >🏈Devan Thompkins and Yhonzae Pierre were back, and William Sanders, a week after TightRope ankle surgery, dressed for warmups. >🏈DeBoer is 3-0 vs. LSU, 2-0 in Baton Rouge. Bama has won seven of its last eight in Tiger Stadium. >🏈DeBoer is now 22-8 (.733) vs. AP Top 25 teams in his head coaching career (receipt in replies). >🏈Bama won't play a regular-season game in Tiger Stadium again until at least 2030, so the players stayed to celebrate with Tide fans. - Bryant-Denny West, closed until further notice. >🏈A Bama fan in Death Valley handed Daniel Hill his belt on the way out. >🏈An LSU fan on the way out, per Hunter De Siver: “It was good until it got dark.” >🏈Kiffin is now 0-6 vs. Alabama. >🏈At the time of this writing, DraftKings has Bama at -2000 to make the Playoff—95.2% implied probability before the sportsbook's margin. >🏈Biggest regular-season win of the DeBoer era? Nick Kelly says only the two Georgia wins compete. Chris Low called it “the most important road win of Kalen DeBoer's Alabama tenure.” I have it third (my top 4 in replies). Where does this one rank for you? >🏈Next up: at Vanderbilt, Saturday at 12:45 p.m. ET on SEC Network. Vandy just got its first SEC win, 25-23 at Mississippi State. >📝Sunday at 2 p.m. ET, 2027 four-star center Yohane Kabongo picks from Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi State. >🏀Sunday: women's hoops at Tulane, 1 p.m. ET on ESPN2. Monday: Aden Holloway's return vs. Oakland, 7:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network+. >🏀Alayna West through two games: 41 points, 29 rebounds, 19 assists and 13 steals. >📝Alabama hoops commit Chase Lumpkin opened his senior season with 41 points in McEachern's 95-69 win. >🏀Bama pro: Houston Mallette made all 6 of his 3-point attempts and scored 26 for the Windy City Bulls (vid in replies). >🎾Aleksander Blus and Theo Hegarty went unbeaten at the ITA Sectional and qualified for the NCAA doubles championships in Athens, Nov. 17-22. >🎾At home in the Four-in-the-Fall, Yoshka Sborowsky (6-2, 6-4) and Rohan Hazratwala (6-2, 7-5) won singles matches. >🏈Tennessee hammered No. 6 Kentucky 34-6. At 4-2 in the SEC, the Vols are a major contender for the conference title game—and already own the head-to-head win over Bama. >🏈Texas rallied past Missouri 34-20 behind Arch Manning's 297 yards and 3 TDs. LSU gets the Longhorns next. >🏈Auburn beat Arkansas 26-23 on Alex McPherson's 43-yard field goal with 33 seconds left. Mississippi State is next for the Tigers. >🏈South Carolina beat Texas A&M 17-9. LaNorris Sellers hurt his ankle, came back and ran 41 yards for the clinching TD with just under two minutes left. >🏈Georgia beat Ole Miss 42-7 in Oxford.