TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —

The Crimson Tide lost four times on the road last season. If Kalen DeBoer hopes to lead them back to the playoffs and resolidify the Alabama Standard, he's going to have to majorly course correct from Saturday's stunning loss to the Seminoles.

"I choose to believe we got a good football team," said DeBoer after the 31-17 defeat, the Tide's first in a season opener since 2001. "But, you know, we can't play on our heels like, we're not going to be what we think we can be, what we want to be, if that's the case."

"There's no excuse about what happened," he continued. "We stepped on the football field. They stepped on the football field. And we got to play ball. We got to play our our style of ball. And, you know last year isn't this year and it's going to be an uphill

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