Ty Simpson, often a man of many words, said he didn’t have much to say.

“Just frustrating,” Simpson said. “Going to move on.”

Simpson spoke minutes after he and No. 4 Alabama fell in a 23-21 loss to No. 11 Oklahoma on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium. It marks the first SEC loss of the year for the Crimson Tide (8-2, 6-1 SEC). It’s also the first home loss for Alabama since 2023 when the Crimson Tide fell to Texas.

“Everybody’s mad,” Simpson said. “There’s a handful of plays we wish we would have had back. The outcome would have been different. These guys are resilient. These guys fight their tails off every single day. We’re just going to stay together. We’ve still got two more games. We control our own destiny. That’s what we need to do.”

The Crimson Tide had more yards (406-212), more first downs (23-12), more touchdowns (3-2) and more time of possession than Oklahoma. But Alabama lost in the most important stat, the score, because of its gaffes in another stat: turnovers.

Alabama turned the ball over three times. Meanwhile, the defense couldn’t get a takeaway. Heading into the game, the Crimson Tide led the SEC in fewest turnovers but most takeaways per game.

“I feel like we still dominated the game,” Alabama linebacker and captain Deontae Lawson said. “It was just a couple plays that hurt. That will lose you the game. We’ll look at it and we’ll get better from it.”

Captain Tim Keenan III said the locker room was “silent” but with a focus on regrouping.

“It’s just like Week 1,” Keenan said. “We’re back hated by everybody and everything. We’re in a familiar spot. We’ve just got to go work and get better.”

Lawson said guys still were saying they have each other’s backs in the locker room.

“I don’t feel as anyone on our team is going to split from each other or anything like that,” Lawson said. “We’re just going to continue to fight. We know we all in this together.”

The players struck a tone of frustration but eagerness to get back and fix it. Alabama can still make the College Football Playoff and the SEC Championship Game.

Simpson said he’s confident Alabama will respond to the loss to Oklahoma.

“That’s all I’m going to say,” Simpson said. “Got to win out now.”

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