No. 8 Alabama’s five-game winning streak on the heels of a loss to Florida State to open the season has the Crimson Tide making big plans to win the SEC, reach the College Football Playoff and take home the national championship.
Four of the five wins are against Power Four opponents. Three have come against the SEC. All three of the conference victories are against ranked teams: No. 9 Georgia, No. 20 Vanderbilt and now No. 14 Missouri.
The Tide’s 27-24 win against the Tigers featured another shining performance from quarterback Ty Simpson, who had 200 yards and three touchdowns. The last of his three scores, with about three minutes left, gave Alabama an insurmountable 10-point cushion.
Alabama snapped Missouri’s 15-game home winning streak, previously the second-longest run in the Bowl Subdivision.
The Tide’s own winning streak has rewritten the presumption coming out of the Florida State loss. After a brutally disappointing end of last year, the sluggish start stoked the rising discontent with how Kalen DeBoer had managed the program as Nick Saban’s successor.
