Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde penned a column that theorized Alabama courting an underwhelming ACC coach to potentially replace Kalen DeBoer if DeBoer had left for Michigan.
Many national writers have spent the last month wishcasting for chaos and uncertainty in Tuscaloosa with Alabama and Kalen DeBoer.
The second-year coach was supposedly "coaching for his job" in the Iron Bowl against Auburn. A loss might have led DeBoer to seek an off-ramp to Penn State, and Alabama may not have fought to keep him. Of course, that ignores DeBoer publicly squashing rumors of his interest in any other jobs.