The DeBoer era started well with Bama beating Western Kentucky 63-0. DeBoer played a lot of players starting in the 1st half which was good to see since Bama has a lot of young players.
The game started off weird with Proctor, the starting LT, getting injured in warmups and the Western Kentucky headsets weren't working at the start so Bama couldn't use theirs. Bama started off out of sorts with a sack and some penalties and later a snap over the head fumble, but Bama had a bunch of big plays. Bama was up 42-0 at the half while only running 21 offensive plays. Strangely Western Kentucky had a 21-play drive to equal Bama's total in one drive. Milroe completed 7 of 9 for 200 yards and 3 TDs while running for 79 yards and 2 more TDs. Hopefully next game he'll get more passing attempts.