The Eastern Illinois Panthers face the No. 10 Alabama Crimson Tide, led by quarterback Ty Simpson, on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

The Crimson Tide's fourth-quarter rally kept Kalen DeBoer's team in line for a spot in the SEC championship game — and a top spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff with a resume that features four top-25 wins. Quarterback Ty Simpson enters Week 10 ...

ESPN SP+ predicts the margin of victory for the Alabama Crimson Tide against Eastern Illinois in Week 13 of the 2025 college football season.

Alabama's attention is now solely on the Iron Bowl, a rivalry road game against Auburn that will define not only an SEC championship path, but also the Crimson Tide's College Football Playoff hopes. Did Alabama set the tone for Auburn with its dominant win against Eastern Illinois? Here are our postgame grades.

This one is interesting, as BYU and Texas Tech are at the top of the Big 12, and the conference is going to be hoping to get two teams into the playoffs. If BYU wins and keeps going, then both programs winding up with only 1 regular season loss would give them a lot of argument strength. But a loss makes for a huge logjam of 2-loss teams.

Derrin Horton and Steve Wyche will be on the call with Horton serving as the play-by-play caller, and Wyche as the analyst. The Alabama State and Arkansas Pine-Bluff football game starts at 12:05 p.m. CT at ASU Stadium in Montgomery.