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The LSU Tigers opened the 2025 season with College Football Playoff aspirations as the preseason No. 9 team in the AP Top 25 poll. But now eight games into their college football campaign, the Tigers find themselves with a disappointing 5-3 record LSU fired now-former head coach Brian Kelly after the team's 49-25 loss to the Texas A&M Aggies on Oct. 25, leaving the program under the operation of interim head coach Frank Wilson. Wilson will take the sideline for his first game as the Tigers' interim on Saturday night, facing off against the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa. Alabama is fighting for its position in the College Football Playoffs, winning each of its last seven games since opening the year with a Week 1 loss to the Florida State Seminoles. LSU will look to play spoiler for the Crimson Tide in Saturday night's primetime matchup at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Earlier this week, star linebacker Whit Weeks rallied his team to "ruin" Alabama's season. More Football: Tensions Reach Boiling Point With Heated Incident Before Auburn-Vanderbilt ESPN college football reporter Molly McGrath revealed Weeks' message to the Tigers in a segment during halftime of Saturday's Texas A&M-Missouri matchup. “In their first team meeting after Brian Kelly’s firing, LSU players told each other, ‘This season can now go one of two ways. We can give up and be forgotten, or we can be the team that comes back from all of this adversity and shocks everyone,'” McGrath reported, via On3 Sports. “Veteran linebacker West Weeks is determined to make this rivalry game a statement game, telling us, ‘We have nothing to lose and Alabama has everything to lose. … Let’s go ruin their season.’ Weeks said this locker room is tighter than ever and said they’re re-energized by all the physicality that they have been practicing with this week.” Weeks will be cheering his team on from the sideline on Saturday night. The third-year linebacker is ruled out with the same foot injury that kept him off the field for LSU's Oct. 25 loss to Texas A&M. Saturday's LSU-Alabama game will kickoff at 7:30 p.m. ET.
