Kalen DeBoer will coach his first game against LSU on Saturday night in Baton Rouge.

He’s the first Alabama coach since Bill Curry in 1987 not to get the Tigers in Tuscaloosa in Year 1. But where the game was played in this series hasn’t always made much of a difference in the outcome over the years.

Here’s a look back at how the Crimson Tide head coaches of the modern era fared in their first meeting with LSU:

Nick Saban (2007) — Lost 41-34

One of the highest-scoring games in series history was a turning point in the rivalry, though LSU ultimately won for its fifth straight victory over Alabama. Saban had returned from the NFL to take over at Alabama, just four years after leading LSU to a national championship. The Crimson Tide showed it wasn’t going to be pushed around anymore, leading 20-17 at halftime and taking a 34-27 lead on Javier Arenas’ electrifying punt return touchdown in the fourth quarter. Les Miles’ Tigers scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes to win, however, forcing a fumble by Alabama’s John Parker Wilson to set up Jacob Hester’s 1-yard game-winner 1:26 to play. The loss was the first of four straight to end the regular season for the Crimson Tide, which would beat Colorado in the Independence Bowl to finish 7-6. LSU would go on to win the national title that year, but wouldn’t win one again until 2019. Alabama has won six titles in that span, and beat LSU eight straight times from 2011-18.

Mike Shula (2003) — Lost 27-3

Saban was on the other sideline for this one, bringing his third-ranked Tigers into Bryant-Denny Stadium to face a Crimson Tide team on its way to a losing season. LSU outgained Alabama 470 yards to 219, holding the Crimson Tide to just 65 yards rushing. Matt Mauck threw a pair of touchdown passes in the first half, as LSU led 17-0 at the break. Michael Clayton had an especially big day for the Tigers, with 12 catches for 130 yards and a score. Brian Bostick’s 27-yard field goal with 6:49 remaining prevented Alabama from getting shut out. Perhaps the only highlight for the Crimson Tide was the play of safety Charlie Peprah, who had 14 tackles, an interception and a forced fumble and recovery. LSU went on to win the national championship that season, while Alabama finished 4-9. Shula never beat LSU in four tries, coming closest in a 16-13 overtime loss in Tuscaloosa in 2005, the year Miles replaced the NFL-bound Saban as head coach.

Dennis Franchione (2001) — Lost 35-21

Saban’s first LSU team was as explosive offensively as the national championship squad two years later, and this homecoming game at Bryant-Denny Stadium turned into the Rohan Davey and Josh Reed Show. Davey riddled the Alabama defense for a then-SEC record 528 yards on 35-for-44 passing, while Reed had an astounding 19 receptions for 293 yards and a score (both SEC records at the time). Amazingly, the game was tied 21-21 late in the third quarter after Crimson Tide quarterback Tyler Watts ran 22 yards for a touchdown and then hit AC Carter for two points. But Davey went to work and fired a 25-yard TD to Reed with 4 seconds left in the third to put the Tigers on top for good. LaBrandon Toefield also ran for three short touchdowns for LSU, which rang up 611 yards and 30 first downs. LSU went on to win the SEC championship that season, finishing 10-3 after beating Illinois in the Sugar Bowl. The loss dropped Alabama to 3-5, but the Crimson Tide rallied to win its final four games — including a one-point win over Iowa State in the Independence Bowl — to end up 7-5. One postscript that must be noted is that Franchione and Alabama pummeled LSU 31-0 in Baton Rouge the following season, one of the worst losses in Saban’s 28-year career as a college head coach.

Mike DuBose (1997) — Lost 27-0

Alabama had not been shut out at home by LSU in 95 years when Gerry DiNardo’s team rolled to victory at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Crimson Tide quarterback Freddie Kitchens completed just 8 of 24 passes for 95 yards and was sacked four times, while backup Lance Tucker fumbled in the end zone and the Tigers’ Chuck Wiley recovered for a first-quarter touchdown. Kevin Faulk ran for two touchdowns — including a 53-yarder in the fourth quarter — and 168 yards, the most Alabama had allowed in six years. The Tigers ran for 265 yards as a team, while Wiley had three tackles for loss, two sacks and three quarterback hurries in addition to the fumble recovery. The loss was part of a four-game skid to end the season for Alabama, which finished 4-7, its first losing record since 1984, and just its second since 1958. LSU ended up 9-3, beating Notre Dame in the Independence Bowl. DuBose would get his revenge the next season in Baton Rouge, however, as Alabama rallied in the fourth quarter for a 22-16 victory. The Crimson Tide also won in Tuscaloosa in 1999, before the Tigers claimed a 30-28 victory in 2000 under first-year coach Saban.

Gene Stallings (1990) — Won 24-3

The last Alabama coach to beat LSU in his first season dominated the Tigers in his career, winning six of seven meetings overall. The 1990 game also appeared to get Stallings’ team and the Crimson Tide program over the hump. Alabama lost its first three games that year, but the LSU win put it over .500 for the first time all season at 5-4. Chris Anderson rushed for 116 yards and two long touchdowns — covering 30 and 46 yards, while the Crimson Tide defense held the Tigers to just 61 yards rushing and 166 yards of total offense. Spencer Hammond also returned an interception 12 yards for a touchdown for Alabama, which was in the midst of a four-game stretch in which it did not allow a touchdown. The game was also notable for being the last at Bryant-Denny Stadium played on artificial turf, which was ripped up and replaced by natural grass that offseason. The Crimson Tide closed out the regular season with wins over Cincinnati and Auburn in Birmingham before losing to Louisville in the Citrus Bowl to finish 7-5, but the 1991 and 1992 teams combined for a 24-1 record, with a national championship in the latter year. Early the following season, Alabama would embark in a 31-game unbeaten streak that wouldn’t end until LSU won in Tuscaloosa in 1993. The 1990 Tigers finished 5-6, spelling the end for fourth-year head coach Mike Archer.

Bill Curry (1987) — Won 22-10

One of the more surprising outcomes in series history came at Tiger Stadium in Curry’s debut season, as an Alabama team that had lost at home to Memphis State earlier in the year and struggled to beat lowly Mississippi State in Birmingham a week prior dealt fifth-ranked LSU its first loss of the season. Bobby Humphrey ran all over the defending SEC champion Tigers to the tune of 177 yards, including the clinching 10-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter. Freshman Philip Doyle kicked three field goals for Alabama, which forced five LSU turnovers. Linebacker Derrick Thomas also had a monster game for the Crimson Tide with two sacks, a forced fumble and recovery and a partially blocked punt. The good times would quickly end for that particular Alabama team, however, which ended the season with losses to Notre Dame, Auburn and Michigan in the Hall of Fame Bowl to finish 7-5. LSU — which had tied Ohio State early in the year — would not lose again that season, though the loss to Alabama cost the Tigers a second straight SEC title (which went to Auburn in 1987). LSU finished 10-1-1 and ranked No. 5 nationally after beating South Carolina in the Gator Bowl.

Ray Perkins (1983) — Won 32-26

The win in Baton Rouge was part of an up-and-down debut season for Perkins, whose team won its first four games before losing to Penn State and Tennessee in October. Alabama entered the LSU game at 5-2, and fell behind almost immediately when Jeff Wickersham hit Eric Martin on an 80-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter. The Crimson Tide rallied behind its defense and special teams, holding LSU to 61 yards rushing and scoring on a 46-yard blocked punt return by freshman linebacker Cornelius Bennett (who also blocked the kick). Ricky Moore and Kerry Goode combined for 184 yards rushing for Alabama, which Walter Lewis threw touchdown passes to Moore and Joey Jones. Wickersham threw for 344 yards and three touchdowns for LSU, while Martin caught eight passes for 209 yards and two scores. Still, the Crimson Tide led from the middle of the second quarter onward, and went up by two scores twice in the second half. LSU had one last shot to win with 1:36 remaining, but couldn’t get the ball past the Alabama 47. Alabama lost close games to Boston College and Auburn late in the regular season before thumping SMU 28-7 in the Sun Bowl to finish 8-4. LSU ended the year 4-7 (including 0-6 in the SEC), and fourth-year coach Jerry Stovall was shown the door at season’s end. Perkins never beat LSU again, losing close games in Birmingham in 1984 and 1986 and escaping with a 14-14 tie in 1985 when the Tigers missed a chip-shot field goal in the final seconds.

Paul “Bear” Bryant (1958) — Lost 13-3

It’s an odd bit of trivia that Bryant’s first game as Alabama head coach took place not in Tuscaloosa or Baton Rouge or even in Birmingham, but at Ladd Stadium in Mobile. The Crimson Tide played one a game a year in the Port City in those days, though most often against Tulane or Southern Miss. But it was the eventual national champion Tigers and future Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon who greeted Bryant and the Crimson Tide on this day. LSU, on its way to an 11-0 finish under coach Paul Dietzel, got 86 yards and a touchdown rushing from Cannon, who would win the Heisman the following year. Alabama actually led 3-0 at halftime on a short field goal by Dave Sington, but LSU dominated the second half. A 12-yard pass from Warren Rabb to Johnny Robinson and Cannon’s 20-yard run accounted for the Tigers’ two touchdowns. Aside from being Bryant’s debut, the game is perhaps best known today for an incident during the second quarter in which the bleachers in one end zone collapsed due to rain-soaked conditions, injuring more than 60 spectators. Alabama finished the year 5-4-1, the first of 25 consecutive winning seasons under Bryant. Under the SEC’s odd schedule rotation during that era, the two teams wouldn’t play again until 1964. Bryant had Alabama rolling by that time, on its way to a second national championship in four years and the first of two in a row (and six total before his retirement at the end of the 1982 season). LSU’s national championship that season would be its last until 2003 under Saban. The Tigers remained highly competitive for much of the next two decades, but won only one SEC title (1970) between 1958 and 1986.

So that’s the list of how first-year Alabama coaches have fared against LSU, a 3-5 record dating to the Bryant era. DeBoer will have his chance to help the Crimson Tide improve that record on Saturday night.