"He loves pressure," Jarod Neal, Simpson's high school coach, told CBS Sports. "He loves to be the man when things are on the line, he wants the ball. When we had games on the line, I said, 'Ty, it's yours, you have to make something happen here,' and he would."

Ty Simpson reacted accordingly after he was named the starting quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide for the 2025 college football season.

Here's how a Ty Simpson-led drive in one of Alabama football's worst games of the 2023 season helped spark an SEC championship and College Football Playoff bid.