{"id":850945,"date":"2025-05-25T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/former-auburn-hc-tommy-tuberville-reportedly-expected-to-run-for-governor-of-alabama\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:12:08","slug":"former-auburn-hc-tommy-tuberville-reportedly-expected-to-run-for-governor-of-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/former-auburn-hc-tommy-tuberville-reportedly-expected-to-run-for-governor-of-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Auburn HC Tommy Tuberville reportedly expected to run for governor of Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football <\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_101897126\">\n<p>Tommy Tuberville is no stranger to politics in the state of Alabama. In fact, one could make the case that he&#8217;s become more known for politics ever since he became the United States senator of Alabama in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, though, Tuberville was a college football coach for 21 years between stints at Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati. Tuberville coached at Auburn from 1999 to 2008 and boasted an 85-40 record with the Tigers, including going 5-3 in bowl games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He may be looking to use that record to his advantage in the political sphere, but he&#8217;ll need more than just Auburn fans to vote for him as he&#8217;s now looking to run the whole state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tuberville-157021789df7a71e47e4660997d72120\" target=\"_blank\">According to Kim Chandler<\/a> of the Associated Press, Tuberville is planning on running for governor of the state of Alabama in 2026.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Two people who have spoken with Tuberville about his plans said Thursday they expect him to announce a gubernatorial bid,&#8221; she reported. &#8220;They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about a campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tuberville is expected to announce a decision on Tuesday. \u201cIt was a hard decision,\u201d Tuberville said, per the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville beat incumbent Democrat Doug Jones in 2020. In that 2020 republican primary, he had beaten former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the republican nomination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The current governor of Alabama, Republican Kay Ivey, can&#8217;t run again due to term limits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Tuberville helped Auburn go 13-0 and win the SEC. That season included a win over Alabama in the Iron Bowl and then a win in the Sugar Bowl against No. 9 Virginia Tech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville was the Walter Camp Coach of the Year that season.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/former_auburn_hc_tommy_tuberville_reportedly_expected_to_run_for_governor_of_alabama\/s1_13132_42231555\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Lawanda Mayoral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Tuberville is no stranger to politics in the state of Alabama. In fact, one could make the case that he&#8217;s become more known for politics ever since he became the United States senator of Alabama in 2021. Before that, though, Tuberville was a college football coach for 21 years between stints at Ole Miss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23689,3790,148],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-850945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-auburn","8":"category-football","9":"category-former"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}