The Champagne of 'Bama Blogs
Happy Thursday and Merry Christmas, everyone. We’ll open up today with a little Christmas cheer from Parker Brailsford. University of Alabama offensive lineman Parker Brailsford’s childhood experiences inspire him to help Tuscaloosa’s underserved youth. Brailsford is an Arizona native, who has made a name for himself in the world of college football. But when he […]
Merry almost Christmas, everyone. With Alabama off until New Years, there’s not too much going on today. But feel free to hang out and talk. Can Zabien Brown get one more touchdown before he goes pro next year? My money is on yes. I think there’s also a very good chance he’s the top cornerback […]
Alabama has cleared their first College Football Playoff hurdle for 2025. Next is a much bigger obstacle in the top seeded Hoosiers. The oddsmakers do not have a lot of faith in the Crimson Tide. FanDuel has opening odds of Alabama being a 6.5 point underdog with an Over/Under of 48.5. The game takes place […]
Happy Monday, everyone. Alabama basketball won its game with Kennesaw State yesterday, though the second half wasn’t pretty. They now get a week off before facing Yale next Monday in the final tune-up for SEC play. After beating Oklahoma, the football team has a Rose Bowl date with Indiana. Prep your calendars and your travel […]
[With Christmas rapidly approaching and travel plans for some, we bring you Random Thoughts a day early. Ho! Ho! Ho!] Alabama made a statement. Oregon got a little lazy. And Miami-FL and Texas A&M gave us a classic. A classic bore. Meanwhile, it was not good week for the AAC teams with Tulane, Memphis and […]
The 16th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide defeated Kennesaw State 92-81 on Sunday afternoon in the Rocket City Classic in Huntsville’s Von Braun Center. The game was a homecoming for KSU coach Antoine Pettway, a former Alabama player and long time assistant coach. It would been nice to have given him his flowers at home in […]
Whew, what a game. I feel like I’ve written that coming out of several games this season, but I suppose that’s just the nature of this particular team and schedule. And by “what a game,” I mean that some mix of all of these emotions were experienced: About that “mirror image” Coming out of this […]
First things first – I want to apologize for not having anything together for the USF game earlier this week – my oldest kid was home sick and between that and my actual job, it just wasn’t going to happen. Shoutout to Josh for covering for me from the Atlanta airport. He gets paid the […]
Well, that was something. Alabama opened last night’s game looking like the team we saw in Atlanta. Frankly, they looked like an unprepared team perhaps led by a coach who had been distracted at practice. Down 17-0 in the second quarter without so much as a single first down for the offense, rallying for 27 […]
Things started out terribly but worked out in the end, as Alabama avenged their earlier loss to Oklahoma to advance in the College Football Playoff. Alabama won the toss and elected to defer, giving the ball first to Oklahoma QB John Mateer. The Sooners predictably tried to be aggressive on the first play with a […]
Well then. Alabama was an abject disaster for the 1st quarter. Oklahoma got out to a 7 point lead after the Tide went 3 and out. Then they went three and out again, and Oklahoma scored again. And rinse-repeat, and suddenly the Sooners were up 17-0, and the game felt pretty well over. Until it […]
College Football Playoff: Friday, December 19, 2025 #9 Alabama Crimson Tide (10-3) at #8 Oklahoma Sooners (10-2) Norman, OK ~ 7:00/8:00 ABC *** Please NO embedded Tweets, jpgs, gifs, etc. We ask these things because it slows down load times. *** ROLL TIDE!
Happy Friday, everyone. December 19 has finally arrived, which means it’s time for Alabama to face off against an Oklahoma team in the College Football Playoff, that wouldn’t be in the playoff if Alabama hadn’t managed to blow a game against them in Tuscaloosa. The game will kick off at 7pm CT on ABC, and […]
First up, the biggest news yesterday was Kalen DeBoer’s remark after Wednesday’s practice: For one, Cuevas has been Ty Simpson’s most clutch receiving option for much of the season, and his absence the last three games was clearly felt. Two, don’t discount Danny Lewis. The veteran tight end has barely played this season. Want to […]
The 16th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide took down the visiting South Florida Bulls 104-93 on Wednesday in Coleman Coliseum. The Bulls are coached by long time Nate Oats assistant Bryan Hodgson. Alabama improved to 8-3 with the victory while USF fell to 6-5. Oats tweaked the starting lineup again, beginning with Labaron Philon, Latrell Wrightsell, […]
Nate Oats’ squad will try to rebound from a disastrous second half in the last outing against top-ranked Arizona. It was the first time this season that the Tide looked truly overmatched in a game and should be instructive in terms of which areas need addressed. The problem is that the biggest issue, rebounding the […]
Let’s just start with this: After a year of trusting another defensive coordinator, head coach Brent Venables is back to acting as the DC this year. And, well, they’re giving up all of 14 points per game – one of the best in the entire country. The’ve absolutely stymied most of their schedule, but Michigan, […]
Happy Gump Day, everyone. Alabama basketball hosts South Florida tonight, hoping to recover from an embarrassing outing on Saturday night. The game will tip off at 7pm CT, streaming only at ESPN+. We will have preview coverage later on. We are two days away from the College Football Playoffs, and the Alabama injury report dropped […]
Alabama draws ever closer to the matchup with Oklahoma in Coach Kalen DeBoer’s first playoff appearance with the Crimson Tide. Ahead of that, us here at RBR wanted to give you our collection of opinions on Alabama’s season and the playoffs as a whole. 1) How much hope are you holding out that Alabama can/will […]
If this doesn’t give you goosebumps, call 911. Army-Navy served up another classic. AMERICA’S GAME: Navy 17 Army 16 – It was another wild amazing game with the Middies coming out on top. This match-up started out just about as expected. Navy had a scoring drive that took up 7:44 of the first quarter. Army’s […]
Alabama and Oklahoma have only played a couple of games since last playing each other, with the Sooners having bested the Tide by 2 points in a low-scoring slugfest on November 15th. Now, they’re matched up yet again in the first round of the College Football Playoffs, with the winner getting the privilege of taking […]
The circus that is the College Football Playoffs is starting up later this week, and, as always, everyone has a LOT of opinions. Whether it’s the national angst that Alabama is in the playoffs or the random inclusion of Tulane and James Madison because a weird series of events stemming from all the major conferences […]
Happy Monday, everyone. It’s playoff week, as Alabama gets set to face off against Oklahoma on Friday night. A head coach opening at Michigan has led to rumors about Kalen DeBoer leaving Tuscaloosa, but he put those to bed with a statement yesterday. Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer ended all speculation Sunday afternoon alluding to potential interest in […]
The 12th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide took on the top-ranked Arizona Wildcats on Saturday night at Legacy Arena in Birmingham. In the words of former Alabama coach Avery Johnson, it was a tale of two halves. The Tide and Cats brawled through an exciting first half with Bama taking a 41-39 lead into the locker […]
After a much-needed week off for the guys to focus on exams, the 12th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide get ready to welcome in the top-ranked team in the country – the undefeated Arizona Wildcats. The game will be played in Legacy Arena at the BJCC in Birmingham Saturday night for this year’s edition of the C.M. […]