The transfer portal closed after Jan. 16, meaning Alabama football’s undergraduate players are no longer able to enter. Schools have a few days to file the paperwork after a player requests to enter, but that time frame has also past, so it’s likely the Crimson Tide has finished losing players to the portal.

The second season of the Sam Shade era is on deck at Alabama A&M. The Bulldogs will open the season on Saturday, Aug. 29, against Howard in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge. The matchup is set at Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta.

Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer has the Crimson Tide a bit higher than the average in his final US LBM Coaches Poll of the 2025 season.

Indiana football center Pat Coogan pinpointed the exact moment he knew that the Hoosiers broke Alabama in the Rose Bowl.

Alvin Samples, an All-America lineman at Alabama in the late 1960s who later was active in politics in his hometown of Tarrant, died Tuesday. He was 77. A 1966 graduate of Tarrant High School, Samples played regularly at linebacker and on the offensive and defensive lines for coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s Crimson Tide from 1967-69 — by which time two-way players had become a rarity in college

After spending four years with the Alabama Crimson Tide, quarterback Ty Simpson has declared for the 2026 NFL Draft. This past season was his first year as the team's full-time starter. He completed 305-of-473 passes for 3,