The Champagne of 'Bama Blogs
After the worst performance – especially defensively – of the 2026 campaign, the 18th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide is now coming off back-to-back losses for the first time this season. Texas was also the first unranked team to best Nate Oats’ squad this year. To be completely frank – that was an ugly, and telling, loss […]
The semifinals brought some real drama. One game was a nail-biter that went down to who held the ball last. The other was a dominating blowout. Miami-FL 31 Ole Miss 27 – An exciting game came down to clock management and Mario Cristobal’s experience won out. Following a third quarter that produced only three points, […]
Three new players joined Alabama from the Transfer Portal on Monday, and all three fill needs for the Tide. First, kicker Lorcan Quinn signed from Marshall. The former Irish soccer player only first started kicking footballs in 2024. In one season with Marshall, he was exceptional, going 21-26, with 4-6 on 50-yarders and being named […]
Happy Monday, everyone. The women’s basketball team didn’t have a game this weekend, but will play at Mizzou tonight on SEC Network at 6pm. The ladies will be looking to follow up their resounding victory over 6th-ranked Kentucky last week. In transfer portal news, Alabama added a big body to the defensive line last night. […]
The 13th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide lost their second consecutive game Saturday night, losing 92-88 t0 the unranked Texas Longhorns. The Tide fell to 11-5 overall and 1-2 in the SEC while the Horns improved to 10-6 and 1-2 in league play. Bama trailed much of the game by double digits, fought their way back, […]
The Transfer Portal Window has been up and active for a week now, and something like 30% of the entirety of college football has entered it. And why not? Even if you intend to stay, it honestly isn’t a terrible idea to jump in anyway to see if you can secure a higher payment. For […]
Alabama hosted a Texas team that has lost six games against a tough slate in the early going and things didn’t go well for the home team, as the Longhorns walked out of Coleman with a 92-88 victory. Texas looked nothing like an unranked, winless in SEC play team early on. They were on fire […]
Well, that was certainly a basketball game that was played in Nashville the other night. Or maybe it wasn’t – tweet – just got called for another foul. An epic back and forth battle between two of the early favorites to win the SEC was highjacked after halftime by the officiating crew, who apparently did […]
Happy Friday, everyone. The Miami Hurricanes pulled out a close one last night to advance to the national title game, and tonight Oregon will face off against Indiana in the other semifinal. Indiana feels almost inevitable, but we will see. The Alabama women’s basketball team posted a huge win yesterday, and at 16-1 looks poised […]
Happy Thursday, everyone. Alabama basketball lost at Vanderbilt last night, but it has to be somewhat encouraging that they pushed an undefeated team to the limit on the road despite missing two key pieces in Aidan Sherrell, who sat out the game, and Labaron Philon who missed the final 16 minutes of action. Fortunately it’s […]
The 13th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide fell to 11th ranked Vanderbilt 96-90 on Wednesday night in Nashville. The Tide fell to 11-4 overall and 1-1 in the SEC while the surprising Commodores improved to 15-0, 2-0 on the season. Alabama’s Aiden Sherrell was considered a game time decision after being injured in the Kentucky game […]
The 13th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide fell to 11th ranked Vanderbilt 96-90 on Wednesday night in Nashville. The Tide fell to 11-4 overall and 1-1 in the SEC while the surprising Commodores improved to 15-0, 2-0 on the season. Alabama’s Aiden Sherrell was considered a game time decision after being injured in the Kentucky game […]
Alabama went on the road to face a tough Vanderbilt team tonight and wound up playing short-handed, resulting in the Tide’s first conference loss by a score of This one didn’t start out very well for the Tide. Vanderbilt’s home crowd offered energy and the Commodores fed off of it to jump out to a […]
Coming off of yet another spanking of the old SEC kingpin – Kentucky – in the conference opener, the 13th-ranked Crimson Tide now turn their attention to the new NIL-era powerhouse of the SEC – the #11 Vanderbilt Commodores. The undefeated ‘Dores are doing even bigger things on the court than they did on the […]
Crimson Tide quarterback Ty Simpson has informed the Alabama coaches that he will enter the NFL Draft. Simpson wrote in an Instagram post that included a narrated video: “Grateful for every single second. Blessed beyond measure to be able to chase my dreams. Time to roll. Roll Tide.” “It wasn’t all perfect and it didn’t […]
Happy Gump Day, everyone. Alabama basketball is in Nashville tonight to face unbeaten Vanderbilt. Tip-off is at 8pm CT on ESPN2, and we will have you covered on that later. Most of the current college sports news surrounds the football transfer portal, which many of you are probably tired of talking about. Still, we have […]
Indiana, Oregon, Miami-FL, and Ole Miss. Just like everyone predicted. Right? With one glaring exception, the lower seeds have won seven of eight games over the top 4 seeds in two years of the stupid expanded playoff. We have discussed this in previous weeks and it rang true once again for three teams this year: […]
If you missed it in our roster tracker article, there were three bigger pieces of new yesterday for Alabama’s roster. First, Parker Brailsford declared for the NFL Draft: I think Brailsford should be a solid day-2 pick, and any NFL team will be happy to have him. He was a bright spot for Alabama the […]
Happy Monday, everyone. Nate Oats’ squad opened SEC play in resounding fashion, whipping Kentucky in front of a raucous Coleman Coliseum crowd. Per usual, Nate was not shy in the postgame presser. “Kentucky’s not what everybody was hoping over there that they would be this year, but they still have a lot of talent,” Oats […]
The 14th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide defeated Kentucky for the fourth straight time Saturday by a score of 89-74 at Coleman Coliseum. The Tide beat the Cats three times last year and extended the teams longest winning streak over UK. Bama improved to 11-3 overall and 1-0 in conference play while the Wildcats fell to […]
Alabama’s basketball team did its level best to make Tide fans forget about the football debacle by whipping Kentucky at Coleman Coliseum today by a score of 89-74. Alabama got off to a fast start out of the gate. Kentucky came out focused on slowing early SEC Player of the Year candidate Labaron Philon, but […]
Alabama’s season is officially over, and the transfer portal window has now opened. The window will run for two weeks – from today until January 16th – and this extended January window eliminates the spring transfer window. For this year at least… Who knows what the rules will be next year. Alabama has generally seemed […]
Well, it is officially basketball season in Tuscaloosa, AL! Time to flush that Rose Bowl loss down the drain and focus on Tide Hoops! Not everyone can be a football school like Indiana, some of us have more of an affinity for the roundball. We contend for Final Fours on the hardwood around here! What […]
Happy Friday, everyone. Or, as happy as it can be around here after watching Alabama get dominated in another postseason game, the possibility of which had to be in the back of every Alabama fan’s mind. I am not going to bother writing an Initial Impressions post for that game. Here’s the impression: Alabama didn’t […]
Well, obviously that was horrible. Similar to the the last 2024 loss to Oklahoma, then the 2025 SECCG loss, I’m not going to try to talk you out of this one. (Notably, I’m not including the the Florida State loss, which was actually closer than it looked, nor the 2018 title loss to Clemson, where […]