7. Alabama climbed to No. 6 in ESPN’s Football Power Index after beating South Carolina, a 72.9% chance to make the College Football Playoff, and an 8.5% shot at the national title, while Auburn rebounded from its Florida loss with a 21-15 win over Vanderbilt, its first SEC home victory since 2024.

6. Read Freely Alabama, which is a group of degenerates that promotes sexually explicit and LGBTQ-related material for minors in public libraries, is hosting statewide “Beyond the Bookshelf” events on “citizen involvement and racial justice” after a $40,000 Nathan Cummings Foundation grant, telling supporters the events seek to “empower local communities to become more involved as advocates for social and racial justice” and to “challenge book bans,” bans that don’t exist.

5. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a multi-state letter urging Congress to add women’s sports protections to the Protect College Sports Act, saying, “In Alabama, we will not apologize for protecting opportunities that our female athletes have earned,” and “To protect college sports, you have to protect women’s sports,” as the Senate nears a vote and conference leaders work on a “Plan B” revenue-share cap and transfer rules if the bill stalls in the House.

4. Cook Political Report now favors Democrats in 208 House races to Republicans’ 205 after 15 ratings shifted toward Democrats, while Alabama’s 2nd District remains Likely Republican as U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) faces State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) after a summer Democratic internal poll showed them tied at 46% with 8% undecided.

3. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says that “AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths,” adding “there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools,” and that it is “completely irresponsible not to require every AI to have these safeguards,” while President Donald Trump has rejected a slowdown and Laffer Tengler Investments CEO Nancy Tengler answered that “The U.S. needs to win the AI race just as we sought to win the arms race during the Cold War.”

2. After rejecting Iran’s latest proposal, President Donald Trump told Axios, “I expect more talks with Iran this week. They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make,” adding, “They overplayed their hand,” while saying more than 20 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend and, asked about new strikes, “I am always thinking about it.”

1. Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, claimed a “silent majority” of Republicans will back him, saying, “So many are going to cross that Rubicon and vote for a Democrat for the first time in a long, long time,” and “They don’t want to speak it out loud,” this is a tactic being used by James Talarico in the Texas U.S. Senate race, and every Democrat uses every election every time to no impact.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.