Tommy Tuberville will appear in the US Senate in Alabama with Sean Spicer on his campaign team.

Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville will run as a Republican in the US Senate in Alabama, sources told CBS Sports.

The longtime coach from Auburn had considered candidate for governor in 2017. Instead, he will begin his political career by occupying the Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Doug Jones. The Republican primaries for the seat are March 3, 2020. If Tuberville succeeds, the general election is November 3, 2020.

Jones won the vacancy left by Jeff Sessions in 2017, when Sessions became US Attorney General. In a difficult and controversial election campaign, Jones finally beat Roy Moore by half a percentage point.

Former Donald Trump press secretary Sean Spicer is working on the Tuberville campaign.

Tuberville, 64, has won 159 career games over the past 21 years at Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati. Throughout his career, he was known for his casual style.

The Tuberville team in Auburn in 2004 won the SEC, finishing 13-0. Although undefeated, the Tigers did not participate in the BCS championship game that year. They were beaten for the match by USC and Oklahoma, both 12-0, who played BCS at the Orange Bowl.

In what may have been a foreshadowing of his political ambitions, Tuberville worked in the Orange Bowl night press stand to win the votes of the Associated Press's media constituents in order to win at least a share of the votes. A national championship. The winner of this game automatically became BCS champion. As before, the Top 25 AP remained independent and voters could have chosen Auburn No. 1.

The fact that an undefeated champion of the SEC can not play for the national championship annoys fans of Auburn and the SEC, as well as critics of BCS. The result was the origin of the first serious discussion for an extension to four teams.

Tuberville had the most success in Auburn, where he went 85-40 in 10 seasons. The resident of Camden, Arkansas, has won three national championships as a defensive assistant in Miami. As head coach, he was named National Coach of the Year (2004) and won two conference titles (SEC, AAC) as well as at least a five-part share of SEC division of the West Division.