No. 7 Alabama and first-year coach Kalen DeBoer avoided a second loss in as many weeks Saturday, hanging on against unranked South Carolina at home 27-25.
Alabama still hasn’t lost back-to-back regular-season games since the 2007 season, Nick Saban’s first year as head coach of the Crimson Tide, but the Gamecocks had a chance until the final seconds Saturday after recovering an onside kick and led in the fourth quarter.
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Alabama entered Saturday’s game as a 21.5-point favorite, one week after losing at Vanderbilt as a 23.5-point favorite.
“Another game down to the wire, we’re kinda getting accustomed to those,” DeBoer said. “There’s things that we can certainly do to make sure
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