TAMPA, Fla. — No one expected Michigan football to come into Raymond James Stadium and upset the vaunted Alabama Crimson Tide. However, the Wolverines took the Jan. 1 game against Alabama and returned the favor again on Dec. 31 to close out the bookended calendar year.

The last time Alabama was inside the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 2023, an eerily similar rainstorm caused the Crimson Tide all kinds of headaches. That afternoon, it was South Florida – along with persistent lightning – that terrorized Alabama for 60 minutes before the better team finally prevailed.

TAMPA, Fla.— In its final exam to end the first season of the Kalen DeBoer era, Alabama football condensed the highs and lows of its entire 2024 season into 60 minutes. For the Crimson Tide, the bad outweighed the good is it lost 19-13 to Michigan in the 2024 ReliaQuest Bowl to secure Alabama's first season without 10 wins since 2007.