Two teams sit atop the SEC standings through the first 10 weeks of the 2025 college football season: the 5-0 Texas A&M Aggies and the 5-0 Alabama Crimson Tide.
On Saturday, the No. 4 Crimson Tide will welcome the unranked LSU Tigers for a primetime contest under the lights at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Alabama enters the game as a 9.5-point favorite over the visiting Tigers, who recently fired now-former head coach Brian Kelly after losing three of their last four games.
While LSU faces a tough task ahead in Tuscaloosa, there are some who believe the Tigers are trending in the right direction under interim head coach Frank Wilson.
In fact, ESPN analyst Ryan Clark believes his alma mater will mount a stunning road-game upset over Alabama on Saturday night.
“LSU is about to go into Alabama and win the game,” Clark said on ESPN’s *Get Up*. “Frank Wilson’s got it going different around there. What did he do, what’s the first thing he do? He called all the old players. Tells everybody to come back. He’s got Jacob Hester, the original No. 18, giving speeches to the team. New athletic director Verge Ausberry, who played on that very field, giving speeches to the team.
“We’re going into Alabama, fresh off of the bye week. You know what we was doing? Getting back to the basics. We was getting back to the basics. You know what else? The head coach, he ain’t got to fake an accent no more. He from New Orleans now.”
If LSU does pull off the upset, it could signal a shift of power atop the SEC, a conference dominated by Alabama, Georgia, and LSU since 2014.
Alabama has won each of its last seven games after starting the year with a season-opening loss to the Florida State Seminoles. The Crimson Tide have claimed victory in all five of their conference matchups, defeating Georgia, Vanderbilt, Missouri, Tennessee, and South Carolina in consecutive games.
Saturday night’s LSU-Alabama matchup will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Fans can expect an exciting primetime showdown as both teams vie for SEC supremacy.
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