The entire SEC, including that team Alabama meets up with on the Third Saturday of October, had their jokes after the Tide’s Week 1 loss, and they didn’t stop after Kalen DeBoer righted the ship with a 73-0 Week 2 win. However, karma caught up with Tennessee fans after a lame troll job on College Gameday in Knoxville on Saturday.
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— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) September 13, 2025
As Kirk Herbstreit interviewed DeBoer from the field in Tuscaloosa before Alabama’s 38-14 win over Wisconsin in Week 3, Vols fans behind Herbstreit and the Gameday desk began to do Florida State’s Tomahawk chop. It wasn’t clear if DeBoer could hear the chant or not, but he kept his composure and didn’t break, even as Pat McAfee broke into laughter and addressed it directly.
Clearly, Vols fans didn’t get to DeBoer, not that any noise in Knoxville could possibly be louder than the calls for his job from Crimson Tide fans much closer to Tuscaloosa, but Alabama continued to handle its business while Tennessee fell flat.
Tennessee dropped its SEC opener to Georgia after fans trolled the Crimson Tide
Not only did Josh Heupel’s team manage to blow a 21-7 first-quarter lead, allowing 20 unanswered points in the second and third quarters, but the Vols blew a chance to win the game in regulation with kicker Max Gilbert badly missing a 43-yard field goal attempt with seven seconds remaining in the game…