Roster Tracker: Where Alabama football stands after the recent transfer portal changes and NFL decisions
Stephen Lew-Imagn Images Alabama’s roster for the spring is getting closer to finalized, but there’s still room for the Tide to add more There’s been a good bit more movement in the transfer portal following Alabama’s bowl loss to Michigan. While we got a one week reprieve leading up to the game, the roster continues […]
Victory Thread: Tide rolls over Sooners
Will McLelland-Imagn Images Alabama 107, Oklahoma 79 Alabama opened up SEC play in impressive fashion, destroying Oklahoma 107-79. After navigating a brutal non-conference schedule, the Tide looked energized following a much needed week off before conference play. This especially showed up on the defensive end, where an Oklahoma team that came in averaging 83 points […]
Xs and Oats: Just how good are the No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners? Alabama finds out in its SEC opener
Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images Alabama opens its SEC schedule at home against an unknown quantity Ed. Note: First, some administrivia: I’ve decided to change the title up on these previews. While BB4 did a fantastic job for years with his granular breakdown of opponents, and player-level analytics and so forth, I’ve accidentally taken a different tack […]
Jumbo Package: Jalen Milroe, Tyler Booker, Jihaad Campbell announce for NFL Draft
John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports Your latest Crimson Tide news and notes. Happy Friday, everyone. Alabama got some draft decisions yesterday, as Jalen Milroe, Tyler Booker, and Jihaad Campbell each announced that they will be leaving for the NFL . Jalen Milroe is no longer in Alabama football’s quarterback room. But he has a better […]
Tonight’s the Night Random 10
The Guardian Well, let’s dance… T.G.I.F. 1. Let’s Dance by The Ramones 2. Lay it Down Clown by The Replacements 3. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul & Linda McCartney 4. Mistadobalina by Del the Funky Homo Sapien 5. Life’s Been Good by Joe Walsh 6. Havana Affair by The Ramones 7. A Horse With No […]
Points in the Paint: Early Bracketology has ‘Bama sitting pretty. Maybe.
Will McLelland-Imagn Images You really do not want to finish with a 3-seed this year. Here’s today’s installment of our semi-regular data roundup of where the Tide stands, analytically. With teams kicking off their conference schedules this week, the bracketologists have dusted off their spreadsheets and cobbled together their first projections of 2025. Just about […]
Jumbo Package: Alabama football ready to turn the page to 2025 season
Matt Pendleton-Imagn Images Your latest Crimson Tide news and notes. Happy Thursday, everyone. We now know three of the four college football semifinalists as Penn State, Texas, and Ohio State have punched their tickets. Joining them will be either Notre Dame or Georgia who play today at 3pm CT on ESPN after being postponed due […]
Graphing the Tide vs. Michigan (2024 ReliaQuest Bowl): The charts won’t really explain it
Coach DeBoer doesn’t get a headline image today | Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images That was a full on stink, and these metrics lying about it doesn’t help. Well, Hell, that’s one way to punctuate the season. Let’s get this over with and, ultimately, hope that this kind of thing is a few blips on the […]
New Year’s Day Jumbo Package: Where does Alabama go after its worst season in almost two decades?
Legacy play | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images 9-4 may cut it some places. Alabama is not one of those places. You are what your record says you are. And, in the case of the 2024 Alabama Crimson Tide, that means either this was a 9-4 squad that overcame the unexpected loss of the GOAT, and the […]
Postgame Thread: Alabama goes out with a whimper
Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images Michigan 19, Alabama 13 Well, that wasn’t fun. Alabama coughed up the ball for basically the entire first quarter to spot Michigan 16 points, and the offensive ineptitude was such that they never reached that number. It’s hard to imagine a scenario where Jalen Milroe starts for Alabama next […]