Sometimes it will just be one movie. Sometimes it will be as much as a six-hour viewing session.

That's how much Bo Scarbrough likes the Lifetime channel. Most probably think of Lifetime's programming as being geared toward women. Not Scarbrough.

Alabama's sophomore running back, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound freakish athlete that just ran for 180 yards during the Tide's Peach Bowl win over Washington, doesn't like watching ESPN or other sports channels. For Scarbrough, Lifetime serves as a mental break from football, something that's been important at times the last two years due to injuries and the pressure that comes along with being a former five-star recruit known to many as "The next Derrick Henry."

"If you watch one show on there, you're going to want to watch another one," said a smiling Scarbrough, who is especially a fan of Lifetime's murder mysteries. "My family gets mad at me sometimes. They'll be watching football, and I'll come in and flip the channel to Lifetime. It's my getaway from football time."

'It was a lot of pressure'

The comparisons to Henry started last year. Even former teammates have referred to Scarbrough as "The next Derrick Henry."

It's easy to understand why.

Henry and Scarbrough are around the same size. Both are rare athletes who have run low 4.5 40s while weighing more than 240 pounds. They also look similar on the football field with big frames, dreadlocks and the ability to both overpower and outrun opposing defensive players.

The comparisons to last year's Heisman Trophy winner added to expectations that were already outrageous and unfair for the former prized recruit from Tuscaloosa, expectations that became even more ridiculous after Scarbrough rushed for 243 yards and four touchdowns while averaging 11.6 yards per carry during Alabama's first two spring scrimmages.

It created a lot of pressure for a running back that, while talented, hadn't gotten more than 18 carries in a season since 2013 and was just one year removed from suffering a torn ACL in April 2015.

That's why Scarbrough's mom, Donetris, got annoyed whenever she saw or heard people making the comparisons to Henry leading up to the season, whether it was on social media or at the hospital she works at.

"We saw and heard it like every day, and I hated it," Donetris Scarbrough said. "Every time I looked on Facebook or social media, I would see people posting pictures and comparing them. We love Derrick Henry, and Derrick did a great job, but don't compare him to Derrick Henry. Bo is Bo. It put so much pressure on Bo, and deep in his mind he was thinking, 'OK, I've got to do this. I've got to do that.'"

Scarbrough didn't discuss the comparisons with people close to him -- and didn't say anything about the comparisons creating additional stress. Still, those close to him could see that it led to added pressure.

"Before the season, he was held so high and expected to be a Derrick Henry," Scarbrough's cousin, Luther Allen, said. "It was a lot of pressure. I could see it because I'm close to him and I know him."

'He's just warming up'

Scarbrough says he began to get into a groove during Alabama's 10-0 win over LSU Nov. 5.

After getting eight carries or fewer in each of the Tide's previous seven games, Scarbrough had 11 carries for 52 yards vs. LSU, including a key 10-yard run to convert a fourth-and-1 early in the fourth quarter while playing through a sprained knee.

After missing two games due to the knee injury, Scarbrough has had 11 rush attempts or more and 90 rushing yards or more in each of the Tide's last three games, including a career-high 19 carries, an Alabama bowl record 180 yards and two touchdowns in the Peach Bowl.

Scarbrough's second touchdown was a 68-yard run during the fourth quarter that pushed the Tide's lead to 24-7.

While celebrating the touchdown, some Alabama defensive players brought up a Scarbrough prediction from the week before that proved accurate. According to star linebacker Reuben Foster, Scarbrough had told teammates that he was "going to go off" against Washington. He did.

For the year, Scarbrough is up to 719 rushing yards, nine rushing touchdowns and an average of 6.6 yards per carry. The yards per attempt is higher than the 5.8 yards per carry Henry averaged as a sophomore in 2014, the year before he ran for 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns en route to winning the Heisman Trophy.

People have been telling Scarbrough's mom at work, "That's the Bo we've been looking for all season."

"He's just warming up," she says.

Aided by Lifetime

After the 68-yard touchdown run against Washington, Allen got a text that read, "He looked like Leonard Fournette just now."

"He looks like Bo, not Leonard," Allen responded.

Like Donetris Scarbrough, Allen isn't a fan of people comparing Bo to Henry or any other running back.

He sees Scarbrough as unique -- both as a running back and as a person.

This rare combination of size, speed and power is also an aspiring FBI agent and maybe the only star football player you'll find that's open about his love for the Lifetime channel.

Courtesy of Scarbrough, Allen is also now hooked on Lifetime and said Scarbrough recently recommended a Lifetime movie called "The Wrong Child" about a teenager that torments a family after presenting himself as the father's long-lost son.

Even now, the routine hasn't changed.

Scarbrough will go through practice and his normal daily work. Then, according to Allen, Scarbrough heads home and decompresses with some Lifetime.

It's working for him.