DeBoer reveals the one cure for LSU's deafening crowd noise

Kalen DeBoer on potential crowd noise at LSU: ‘There’s one cure: Score.’

Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer revealed this week exactly how his team plans to handle the deafening environment awaiting them in Baton Rouge.

“My ears are ringing,” DeBoer said on his weekly radio show, “Hey Coach.”

He was describing the artificial crowd noise Alabama has been blasting during practice — not just in team drills, but even during walk-throughs.

“We don’t just do the noise in practice,” DeBoer explained.

“You do the noise when we do walk-throughs.”

“You just get yourself so used to what communication is going to be like.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a team period, a 7-on-7 period, a walk-through, there is a lot of noise that’s happening around practice.”

The preparation comes after Alabama’s disastrous loss at Tennessee, where Neyland Stadium’s crowd clearly disrupted the Crimson Tide’s offensive operation.

That game was part of a brutal three-game stretch where Alabama lost two of three, falling to Georgia and Tennessee before rebounding against Texas A&M.

But DeBoer, a veteran coach, knows that no amount of practice noise can fully simulate what LSU’s Tiger Stadium — known as Death Valley — will throw at his team.

So he offered the real solution.

“There’s one cure: Score.”

The logic is simple: when the home team has nothing to cheer about, the crowd quiets down.

DeBoer’s track record suggests he knows how to get his team ready for big moments.

Since the start of the 2021 season, he is 8-0 after a bye week.

That includes a 4-0 mark as Alabama’s head coach.

Those eight regular-season wins include five over ranked opponents.

He led Washington to wins over Oregon State in 2022 and Oregon in 2023.

He then led Alabama to wins over Georgia and LSU in 2024, and Georgia again in 2025.

In his entire head coaching career, including postseason games, DeBoer has an 18-4 record in games with at least one extra week to prepare.

This bye week may have been the most welcome of his tenure in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama limped into it at 6-2, losers of two of its last three games.

After a perfect 5-0 start, the Crimson Tide lost back-to-back games to Georgia and Tennessee before beating Texas A&M.

The team was beaten and battered after a difficult stretch.

DeBoer talked about his history of success after a bye week during his Monday press conference.

“I think our staff does a really good job of laying out a plan for our players,” DeBoer said.

“Obviously, we all got to be on the same page, but taking advantage of it, not just letting it be time off and something where, okay, yeah, you got to refresh mentally, but we’re in it.”

“Like, we’re in the season.”

“This isn’t even close to the end.”

Alabama enters the game ranked No. 5 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings.

The ranking has been met with mixed reactions.

DeBoer was asked on “Hey Coach” if he discussed the ranking with his players.

“We haven’t talked about it,” DeBoer said.

“I mean, they’re going to see it.”

“It’s around.”

“I’m sure it’s on every sports station and then some.”

“So they’re going to see it.”

“But they know that it doesn’t really matter.”

“We got to continue to just do our part and do our job and continue to move forward.”

College Football Playoff Committee Chair Hunter Yurachek explained the rationale for Alabama’s No. 5 ranking on ESPN.

“I think you look first at Alabama went on the road and beat the team that we have ranked six this week in Kentucky,” Yurachek said.

“They also beat South Carolina, who’s ranked in the top 25, and then, I think, many forget that they went on the road and beat Mississippi State when Mississippi State was undefeated and at full strength, and we really valued that as a strong win for Alabama back there in the early part of the season, when Mississippi, again, they had that quarterback, Kamario Taylor, that was very, very good, and Mississippi State was on a roll at that time.”

“And so, with those, we see those as three quality wins.”

“Yes, they had a loss to Tennessee.”

“Tennessee doesn’t have the same level of quality wins.”

“They do have the win against Alabama, but you have to go a little bit deeper to see Tennessee with another quality win on their schedule.”

Despite the No. 5 ranking, Alabama remains a pretty big underdog — for Alabama standards, at least — heading into this weekend’s matchup.