Alabama had won 23 straight opening-season games until Saturday, getting upset by Florida State 31-17.
The Crimson Tide ran into a buzzsaw at Florida State, and quarterback Tommy Castellanos backed up his offseason talk with a dominating performance.
The opening-season loss comes on the heels of a 9-4, first-year campaign for coach Kalen DeBoer. As you might imagine, Crimson Tide fans aren’t happy and college football fans weren’t impressed .
Here are just some of the reaction on social media :
“Looked like a Mike Shula team.” - Tim Ferrell
“Bench Simpson.” - Tyshawn Phillips
“Here’s the breakdown:
“Ty Simpson - average at best. Kalen Deboer - Nope. Bye. Fired. (4 losses to unranked teams in less than 1.5 seasons). Wommack - leave him in Florida. Williams - that was targeting