NORMAN, OK – The damn thing was over. The rout was on.
Hell, even Michigan wouldn’t have wanted a piece of Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer after this debacle in the first round of the College Football Playoff.
And then a remarkably beautiful thing happened in a 34-24 come-from-behind victory over Oklahoma: DeBoer finally, mercifully, forced the impatient Alabama fan base — and the rest of the college football world — to buy in. Like it or not.
"We always say the game will come back to you if you keep working, keep fighting," DoBoer said. "Just keep chipping away."
Which, of course, is the perfect analogy for DeBoer's rocky ride in the most pressure-packed job in college football. How do you separate from the omnipresent Nick Saban?
