TUSCALOOSA, Ala.–Alabama took the field against Texas A&M Saturday and left a smoldering crater where Aggies once stood. The final score was 59-0, but that scoreline is deceiving. Alabama was in total control for the entire game, and Texas A&M never threatened to score. They barely threatened to get more than two first downs on […]

A while back, we posted a review of Lars Anderson’s “The Storm and the Tide,” which covers the April 27, 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado and the subsequent national championships won by Alabama. It is a great book, which we highly suggest buying and reading. It isn’t an easy read, though, so you might want to grab a […]

Alabama has struggled these past two weeks, but Nick Saban and his players are ready to come home and rebound on Saturday against Texas A&M. “We’re looking forward to being at home this week,” Saban said Wednesday. “It’s been a month since we’ve played a home game and it should be a great beautiful fall […]

The 2015 football schedules for Alabama and Auburn were released last night, along with every other SEC school — and it answered some questions. With the addition of Middle Tennessee State and Charleston Southern, Alabama now has a game for every week and its bye week is set. Each team in the SEC has only […]

Alabama fans hold their team to a high standard, and understandably so. It is a standard that Nick Saban set for himself and his team through years of championships and dominance. The only problem with such a standard is the fans demand it weekly — in perpetuity — instead of abiding by the ebb and […]

A win’s a win, right? In one of the sloppiest games in recent memory, Alabama survived its trip to Fayetteville with a 14-13 win over Arkansas. What started as some good ol’ ugly SEC football became a comedy of errors for both teams, complete with five turnovers combined — Alabama recovered a couple would-be fumbles […]

With the loss against Ole Miss and the loss of star running back Kenyan Drake, Alabama is forced to refocus. Drake was felled by a broken leg early in the second quarter of the game against Ole Miss, a gruesome injury that was mistakenly shown on replay twice. After being carted off the field, tears […]

AJ McCarron seems to be playing a lot of armchair quarterback these days. While the former Alabama star is injured in Cincinnati, McCarron is continuing to criticize this new iteration of the Crimson Tide. During his weekly segment on “The Game” with local Tuscaloosa sports station 99.1 FM, McCarron said the team was bereft of […]

Well, that was interesting. Loads of top teams lost, meaning the power rankings look a bit different than they did last week. Of course, this isn’t the Final Four and there’s still plenty of football left to be played, but maybe this year will be filled with chaos instead of nice uniformity. My first idea […]

OXFORD, Miss.–The Grove in Oxford, Mississippi is where the party’s at, and it has been that way for years. Oak trees envelope the 10-acre centralized campus park and encase it in college football amber. It is an area straight out of central casting for a lush, Southern landscape — that is, except on Saturday October […]

Alabama entered Saturday’s game against Ole Miss with lofty expectations, but the team left Oxford with a 23-17 loss and the need to once again find its wayward identity. How did this happen? Was it the crowd? The penalties? Turnovers, miscues, or the pressure of the moment? The reasons for Alabama’s eventual loss included all of these. […]

The bye week couldn’t have come at a better time for Alabama, especially for its starting quarterback. Blake Sims went down with a shoulder injury against Florida, but was able to return to the game and throw a few passes. Naturally, one of the primary concerns for Alabama going forward was Sims’ health. Would he […]

Blake Sims isn’t the only Alabama player to put aside the Iron Bowl rivalry for a meaningful message this season. While Sims has been wearing a “Kayla” wristband — a tribute to Auburn student Kayla Perry, who was recently diagnosed with cancer — Alabama tight end Brian Vogler wears a navy blue band to commemorate […]

Week 5 turned out to be pretty fun after looking like a poor slate of games. Florida State and Texas A&M almost lost while several other top teams had bye weeks, but the truly big games start this Saturday. For now, here are this week’s top 10. The Crimson Tide had a bye and it […]

AUBURN, Ala. — During an Alabama bye week there were multiple ways I could spend my Saturday. I could catch up on some reading, re-watch all of Game of Thrones to figure out who the Children of the Forest are, spend time with my family, or go to the Auburn game. Football is always the […]

With his checkered past as a head coach, Alabama’s hiring of Lane Kiffin was met with skepticism by many of the Crimson Tide faithful. And some saw it as an outright mistake, the invitation of unwanted baggage to a program in reloading mode. But the arrival of the oft-fired offensive coordinator has ended up being […]

This week helped shed a little more light onto who is inching closer to the Playoff Four, except teams we thought would be very good had bad games. I’m looking at you, LSU. Here’s our power rankings for Week 4: The Crimson Tide made plenty of mistakes in this game, but put everything together to […]

At times is was shockingly great football, at other times it was painfully sloppy, but in Saturday’s 42-21 victory over Florida, the only team that got in Alabama’s way was Alabama. “I’m really proud of the way our guys overcame adversity in this game,” said Alabama head coach Nick Saban. “I wish we didn’t do […]

SEC football in Kansas on a Thursday night just feels strange. Thursday nights are for NBC comedies, NFL football, Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal. USC in its glory years would always drop a Thursday night game in Oregon or at Cal, and MAC football makes its money on mid-week games, but Thursday nights feel like they’re suited for teams who play […]

The season starts now. After only playing one Power 5 conference team in its first three games, Alabama hasn’t really had to focus as much as usual. But with the Florida Gators coming to Tuscaloosa this weekend, that’s about to have to change. “I think that in games like this players really get excited. If they […]

Landon Collins is always ready to tackle somebody, but this weekend, he’s gunning for a family member. Collins’ younger brother Gerald Willis is a freshman defensive lineman on Florida, who has also been seen on special teams. The two brothers have never played against each other, always playing on the same defense growing up, but […]

After three weeks of football, the dominant teams have emerged and everything is clear. Ok, I lied, every team has its weaknesses and there has yet to be a single team — let alone four of them — to set itself apart from the pack. All of these ranked teams are about to start playing […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Now the real fun starts. With Alabama’s 52-12 victory over Southern Miss on Saturday, the non-conference schedule has come to an abrupt end. Mourn it for its low stress level and halftime blowouts, just don’t think we’ve been cleared of questions: they still persist. This systematic win was more of the same from […]

Maybe this game will go for the entire allotted time. Florida Atlantic had its turn in the Bryant-Denny disintegrator last week and that game was cancelled with 7:53 left in the fourth quarter, but the game really ended midway through the first quarter. Now it’s Southern Miss., who comes to Tuscaloosa as a 40-ish point […]