Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama.
Tuberville coached at Ole Miss from 1995-1998 before spending nearly a decade as Auburn's head coach (1999-2008). The Tigers went undefeated en route to an SEC title in 2004.
He spent his latter years coaching Texas Tech (2010-2012) and Cincinnati (2013-2016).
Jones had widely been considered the Senate's most endangered Democrat. Republicans had made recapturing the once reliably conservative seat a priority in 2020.
Tuberville, who has never held public office and last coached four years ago, aligned himself closely with President Donald Trump and declared in the primary campaign: "God sent us Donald Trump.