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Alabama is set to open the 2025 college football season in Tallahassee, Florida against the Florida State Seminoles. The game will be played Saturday, Aug. 30 at 3:30 p.m. ET on ABC. Contact/Follow us @RollTideWire on X, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Alabama news, notes and opinion.
The Crimson Tide has high expectations for a rebound season in Kalen DeBoer's second year as Alabama's head coach.
Alabama football is in the running for an SEC championship according to the league's preseason media poll. The Crimson Tide had 29 votes as SEC champion behind Texas and Georgia, finishing third in the overall preseason SEC media poll ahead of LSU, South Carolina and Florida.
Eleven different teams got votes to win the SEC championship. Georgia was second with 44 votes, followed by Alabama (29), then LSU (20), South Carolina (5), Oklahoma (3), Vanderbilt (2), Florida (2), Tennessee (1), Ole Miss (1) and Auburn (1). Alabama’s 1st big overtime win led to an SEC championship Jul. 21, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
While OU is just inside the top 10, they ranked 6th in votes to win the SEC Conference Championship. On the player side, a few Sooners earned some SEC preseason honors. Jaydn Ott was a part of the 2025 Preaseason Media Days All-SEC Team. And on defense, R Mason Thomas was nominated for the 2nd team.
In his preseason SEC football power rankings this week, the veteran college football scribe has Alabama at No. 3 behind Texas and Georgia -- the two teams who met in last year's conference title game.
Alabama may have high expectations for the 2025 season, but the Crimson Tide did something for the first-time ever in the preseason poll.
In the 2008 preseason poll, the most recent without Alabama as the highest-ranked SEC team, Georgia was No. 1. Alabama led the conference’s rankings in the preseason poll in the 11 seasons from ...
Alabama received 84 votes as the SEC champion pick, while Georgia got 45 votes. The Crimson Tide also had a league-high 16 players on the preseason all-SEC team. Georgia and Auburn had 10 players ...
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