Calling the 2026 Alabama Crimson Tide an 'Underdog' is mostly clickbait, but having an underdog mentality to prove others wrong might be what Alabama needs.
For the Alabama Crimson Tide, disrespect abounds. It has been ebbing and flowing throughout Kalen DeBoer's tenure. The label of Alabama as an underdog was reinforced by embarrassing losses to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game and to Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Recent transfer portal exits and misses have stoked the flames. Will Backus wrote that Alabama's 2026 hopes were tied to the Transfer Portal and that "it hasn't taken long for those hopes to unravel.