Alabama rolled into Chicago tonight to face Illinois and walked out victorious, winning by a score of 90-86. This was an entertaining game from the opening tip. Illinois flexed its muscle in the paint early and got a hot start from Andrej Stojakovic to jump out to a seven point lead at 19-12, but Alabama […]
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In yet another game of contrasting styles, Alabama travels to Chicago tonight to face the Illinois Fighting Illini. Like last week’s outing against Purdue, Alabama will want to turn the game into a track meet while Illinois is contend to slow it down. The Illini rank 178th in pace of play this season. Three Keys […]
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Happy Gump Day, everyone. Since it’s Gump Day, we’re first going to talk about how Alabama is about to finish the season by blowing the doors off of Auburn and Georgia and earn a bye on the way to the national championship. And they’d better after last night’s committee rankings, just to be safe. I […]
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The newest College Football Playoff rankings have been released, and yet again, we get a hodge podge of ever-changing criteria for the committee to rank the teams as they see fit. Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M remained the top three teams in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday, while Alabama dropped six […]
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In week 1 of the 2025 season, the Alabama Crimson Tide was run over by a Gus Malzahn offense, giving up 31 points in a loss that had Alabama fans ready to fire everyone on the coaching staff. Defensive Coordinator Wommack caught plenty of flak, as the issues seemed to be carryover issues from losses […]
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For Alabama fans, it was a pretty lousy Saturday. The only real chaos occurred in Bryant Denny Stadium. Oklahoma 23 Alabama 21 – This is going to sound like Gump sour grapes, but the better team did not win this game. It was the Crimson Tide mistakes that set the Sooners up for scores. Bama […]
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With the Oklahoma loss behind us, we got the thoughts of the Alabama coaching staff after they had a couple of days to ruminate. Ryan Grubb On the offensive line: “You know what? I thought they played well, honestly, I thought the last two weeks, they’ve been building. It’s been a little bit of a […]
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Happy Monday, everyone. There won’t be much going on this week, with Eastern Illinois coming to town for the SEC’s traditional cupcake week before rivalries are played over Thanksgiving weekend. The Panthers are 3-8 at the FCS level this season. As you all know, Alabama lost to Oklahoma on Saturday in a frustrating game that […]
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Alabama has played a string of close games this season and managed to escape on multiple occasions, but they were unable to do so yesterday. The Oklahoma game had all of the right conditions for an upset. They are a tough team, desperately had to have the game to keep playoff hopes alive, and had […]
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Box Score – Alabama vs Oklahoma Box Score Alabama vs. Oklahoma • Nov 15, 2025 Stats Alabama Oklahoma Points 21 23 Game Excitement 6.7 6.7 Total yards 406 212 Rush yards 80 74 Rush attempts 33 28 Yards per rush 2.4 2.6 Pass yards 326 138 Pass attempts 28-42 15-23 Yards per pass 7.8 6.0 […]
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Alabama had a tough opponent coming to Tuscaloosa tonight in a rested Oklahoma Sooners team playing for its playoff life. Unfortunately, some critical errors aided the bad guys and Alabama took a tough 23-21 home loss. Kalen DeBoer led the team out of the locker room wearing his black hoodie and tried to bring a […]
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Well, that was a predictably gross half of football. Alabama opened the game with a couple of three and outs and a pick six, plus gave up a 43 yard punt return and spotted the Sooners 10 points to start. To their credit, the Alabama defense pretty well stymied the Sooner offense the enter half, […]
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GAME 10: Saturday, November 15, 2025 – HOMECOMING Alabama Crimson Tide (8-1) vs Oklahoma Sooners (7-2) Tuscaloosa, AL ~ 2:30/3:30 ABC *** Please NO embedded Tweets, jpgs, gifs, etc. We ask these things because it slows down load times. *** ROLL TIDE!
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Alabama is hosting Oklahoma in just a few short hours, and a win would, for all intents and purposes, lock up a playoff spot for the Tide. It’s be a big one, as the Sooners are the team that officially put the nail in the coffin for Alabama a year ago, so the stakes to […]
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With Alabama taking on Oklahoma later today, long time friend of the blog, Jack Shields, joined once again to give his thoughts on Sooner program as a whole. 1. I asked you this last year, and I want to follow it up a year later to see how you’re feeling. Are you still liking the […]
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It is getting down to crunch time in the chase for the 2025 Big Beer Tap Trophy. For the Crimson Tide, it is only a matter of taking care of business. But it could not hurt to have some other teams falter this weekend for various reason. Some help Alabama. Some help the SEC. And […]
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Happy Friday, everyone. As you well know, Oklahoma comes to town tomorrow. Your previews and predictions: OU leads the nation in rushing success rate* allowed, while Bama’s run game ranks 109th. Ty Simpson and the Tide will have to succeed through the air, but the Sooners also rank ninth in passing success rate allowed. If the Tide […]
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The 8th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide played host to 1st/2nd ranked Purdue on Thursday in a raucous Coleman Coliseum. In a game that had an Elite 8 or Final 4 feel, the Boilermakers outlasted the Tide 87-80 to improve to 3-0 on the season while Bama fell to 2-1. The sold out crowd provided a […]
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Alabama hosted 2nd-ranked Purdue in a massive early season matchup tonight and the game lived up to its billing, but in the end Purdue got it done by a score of 87-80. The contrasting styles were evident from the opening tip. As much as we expected to see Purdue dominate the glass, the reality was […]
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Alabama will host one of the biggest nonconference games in Coleman Coliseum history tonight, as a Purdue team ranked #1 in at least one major poll makes the trip down to Tuscaloosa. As well as Alabama played in Madison Square Garden on Saturday, this veteran Boilermakers squad is a whole different animal. Three keys to […]
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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, Auburn, and South Carolina haven’t […]
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Happy Thursday, everyone. Yeah, football is on Saturday, but who has time for that with 2nd-ranked Purdue visiting Coleman tonight? Alabama men’s basketball secured a win this past weekend that will likely go down as one of the best of the season, if not the best. The Crimson Tide went on the road to Madison Square […]
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Happy Gump Day, one and all. Let’s dive into the Foosball this morning. It’s of the Debil. Better than morning coffee. The Alabama Crimson Tide checked in last night at No. 4 in the CFP rankings, mirroring its placement in both the AP and Coach’s polls. We had some words to say about that, and […]
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Without much elaboration, Oklahoma’s offense was an abject disaster a year ago. The offensive coordinator was fired mid-season, and the starting QB, Jackson Arnold, transferred to Auburn only to get benched there, of all places. They were 97th in the league in scoring, only breaking 20 points against P4 opponents 4 times (and one of […]
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