Longtime college football coach Tommy Tuberville won Alabama's U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Democratic Senator Doug Jones, according to multiple media sources.
Tuberville entered Tuesday's election with a significant lead in pre-election polling and David Mowery, chairman of the Alabama-based Mowery Consulting Group, told Yahoo Sports that a possible Tuberville loss on Election Day would have been like "Troy beating LSU."
Prior to entering U.S. politics, Tuberville spent 21 combined years as the head coach at Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati. He has a 159–99 record, having last coached in 2016.