Despite its implications, the Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn transcends the College Football Playoff or any other postseason game to those within the state of Alabama. In what will be Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer’s first time coaching in one,

Nick Saban feels Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer has a tall task ahead of him Saturday in the Iron Bowl against Auburn.

Opposing coaches question the intensity of Alabama's weekly approach, while Auburn boosters have grown frustrated with Freeze's golf habit

Alabama football played its worst game of the season on Saturday, falling 24-3 in Norman to an Oklahoma team that had only won one SEC matchup before facing the Crimson Tide. The loss dropped UA out of the College Football Playoff top 12,

Between the two of them, Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer and Auburn’s Hugh Freeze have coached in a grand total of one (1) Iron Bowl. That one was an instant classic — last year’s “Gravedigger” Alabama victory — but even the games that appear routine from outside Alabama carry epochal weight.

Kalen DeBoer’s first Alabama team will have at least three losses after one of the ugliest performances by a Crimson Tide team in years. Oklahoma’s defense made the Alabama run game all but nonexistent, holding the Tide to just 70 yards on 30 carries.

Alabama football head coach Kalen DeBoer will get his first taste of the legendary Iron Bowl rivalry Saturday, which he became honest about.

Kalen DeBoer has the chance to do something in the Iron Bowl Nick Saban and Bear Bryant were not able to do for Alabama football.

When it comes to this year's Iron Bowl, it is not only significant through the fact that it is the first without Nick Saban since 2006, but also that is the first for Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer.