The Alabama Crimson Tide did not see their 2024 season end the way they wanted. They lost key games that kept them out of the SEC title game and the College Football Playoff.
However, 2025 is a new year. Emerging from Year 1 of the post-Nick Saban era, the Tide can reset and establish a new era under Kalen DeBoer and new offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb. Let’s look at Alabama’s 2025 schedule and the top games for the Crimson Tide.
Note: We ranked the games on Alabama’s schedule based on multiple factors, including but not limited to expected excitement around the opponent, anticipated effect on each team’s season, rivalry impact, and more.
Alabama’s 2025 Football Schedule
- at Florida State Seminoles
Saturday, Aug. 30, time TBA - vs. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks
Saturday, Sept. 6, time TBA - vs. Wisconsin Badgers
Saturday, Sept. 13, time TBA - at Georgia Bulldogs
Saturday, Sept. 27, time TBA - vs. Vanderbilt Commodores
Saturday, Oct. 4, time TBA - at Missouri Tigers
Saturday, Oct. 11, time TBA - vs. Tennessee Volunteers
Saturday, Oct. 18, time TBA - at South Carolina Gamecocks
Saturday, Oct. 25, time TBA - vs. LSU Tigers
Saturday, Nov. 8, time TBA - vs. Oklahoma Sooners
Saturday, Nov. 15, time TBA - vs. Eastern Illinois Panthers
Saturday, Nov. 22, time TBA - at Auburn Tigers
Saturday, Nov. 29, time TBA
Ranking Alabama’s Full 2025 Schedule
12) vs. Eastern Illinois Panthers (Saturday, Nov. 22)
Are you really in the SEC if you’re not playing an FCS program in late November?
In the last four seasons, the Crimson Tide played against an FCS team in November three times, winning by an average margin of 45 points. This is a business, and while anything is possible in the world of sports, late-season “buy” games will never be the most anticipated matchup in any schedule.
11) vs. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks (Saturday, Sept. 6)
After a Week 1 challenge—more on that later—Alabama is set to face off against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks in its second game of the season. While the Warhawks have not been successful in recent seasons, going 10-26 in the Terry Bowden era, they enter a new stage under the guidance of Bryant Vincent.
After coaching at UAB for almost a decade, Vincent took over the Warkaws in 2024 and improved to 5-7. As CSN’s Oliver Hodgkinson put it, “No one, and I mean no one, did more with less in 2024.”
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Hodgkinson gave Vincent an “A” for his debut head coaching campaign, and if the Warhawks can continue to improve around the margins, they could be a fun team to watch. However, facing an Alabama team ready to go may be no harder early-season task.
10) at Missouri Tigers (Saturday, Oct. 11)
The Missouri Tigers have plenty to look forward to in 2025 between the top-tier transfer class and a strong recruiting class. However, I am tempering expectations for this specific matchup.
Both the Tigers and the Tide have many moving parts heading into the new season. While there is a chance both have it all figured out by midseason, it could very easily end up being a one-sided affair.
9) vs. Wisconsin Badgers (Saturday, Sept. 13)
The 2024 edition of the Alabama-Wisconsin Badgers home-and-home series was no contest, as the dynamic QB Jalen Milroe dominated top to bottom, recording five total touchdowns on a 70.6% completion rate. Wisconsin was otherwise a top-50 defense in points per game, but Alabama routed them.
During this go around, the Badgers are fielding a team decimated by transfer portal departures, losing more than 20 players, including running back Tawee Walker and all four scholarship quarterbacks.
While they added some offensive firepower in QB Billy Edwards Jr. and TE Tanner Koziol, this game is too early in the season to trust that the Badgers are performing at their peak.
8) vs. Oklahoma Sooners (Saturday, Nov. 15)
The “welcome-to-the-SEC” moment many fans expected to hit the Texas Longhorns seemed to have bounced off and landed on the Oklahoma Sooners. Still, injuries were a key contribution to the Sooners’ 6-7 season, which only included two conference wins.
However, the Tide’s late-November loss to the Sooners, a lame 24-3 performance, ultimately killed Bama’s CFP dreams and caught the college football world by surprise.
Alabama will undoubtedly look to rebound in 2025, while Oklahoma looks like a lost program. Still, there’s plenty to look forward to between OC Ben Arbuckle and QB John Mateer leading the offense.
7) at Florida State Seminoles (Saturday, Aug. 30)
Will the Florida State Seminoles be good again in 2025? That is the one question that will determine this season opener.
While 2024 was disastrous, as a shell-of-itself unit crawled to a 2-10 finish a year after going 13-1, there’s plenty of reason for FSU to be optimistic about 2025. The team retained head coach Mike Norvell and hired new offensive (Gus Malzahn) and defensive (Tony White) coordinators, who have almost four decades of combined college coaching experience.
From the new coaches and schemes to new offensive players like QB Thomas Castellanos, WR Squirrel White, and OL Micah Pettus to new defensive players like James Williams and Deamontae Diggs, optimism is abound for the Seminoles. But still, it’s hard to trust FSU to be polished in August.
6) vs. Vanderbilt Commodores (Saturday, Oct. 4)
The last time Alabama lost to the Vanderbilt Commodores was back in 1984. And while the Crimson Tide could serve a cold dish of revenge in 2025, you have to wonder if the curtain is down on one of college football’s most hammer-nail rivalries.
Vandy is returning key players across the board, and there’s optimism that head coach Clark Lea can do it again. It hasn’t happened since 1955-56, but never say “never.”
5) at Auburn Tigers (Saturday, Nov. 29)
Putting the Iron Bowl outside the top five would be sacrilegious, but Alabama has some serious firepower on its schedule, and Auburn has some questions to answer. However, by late November, we should know who the Tigers are.
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The Iron Bowl has not had the same luster in recent seasons, with the Tide on a five-game winning streak. Only two of those games have been within one score, and the average margin has been +14 in Alabama’s favor. But if transfer QB Jackson Arnold and Hugh Freeze can find their footing, this could be a key contest, as CFP berths could hang in the balance.
4) vs. LSU Tigers (Saturday, Nov. 8)
The LSU Tigers are chock-full of talent in 2025, and they should be considered a real threat to take the SEC crown. Any potential SEC title game preview should demand attention, and this game could be no different.
Alabama has a ruthless three-game stretch that includes a home game against the Tennessee Volunteers, a road trip against the South Carolina Gamecocks, and a home game against LSU. If the Tide holds strong through that gauntlet, they could be ready for a CFP run.
The Tigers will be the last obstacle in a stretch that should make or break the season.
3) vs. Tennessee Volunteers (Saturday, Oct. 18)
We did not get the Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava breakout campaign we were hoping for in 2024, and while he got the job done for the Volunteers, it was not clean. Against ‘Bama, he threw for one score and one pick while totaling 194 yards in the air with a 51.9% completion rate.
However, his team was credited with six drops, and Iamaleave had a season-high 16.6-yard average depth of target while recording three big-time throws and just one turnover-worthy play.
Iamaleava was slinging it, and if his receivers had not let him down, Tennessee might have won more comfortably. Can the Volunteers replicate their success in 2025? They’ll have to if they want to make it two in a row against the Crimson Tide.
2) at South Carolina Gamecocks (Saturday, Oct. 25)
The trench battle between South Carolina EDGE Dylan Stewart and Alabama OL Kadyn Proctor will be cinema, but that’s just one slice of the pie. ALabama’s offensive line will face off against a pass-rushing unit that ranked second in PFF pass-rushing grade, No. 8 in sacks per game, and boasted four players with 25-plus pressures last year.
While several key players are headed to the NFL Draft for the Gamecocks and Alabama, these teams will likely be ready for a game that starts and ends in the trenches.
1) at Georgia Bulldogs (Saturday, Sept. 27)
It feels like we see these two teams play each other every year, but did you realize they have faced off in the regular season just three times since 2008? This has been a once-in-a-presidency contest outside of national championship games.
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However, they have played in four SEC title games since 2012 and two CFP National Championships since 2018, making this a blue-blood showdown with championship history. Yet, Georgia is just 1-9 in its last 10 matchups against ‘Bama.
It’s time for some classic, top-tier gridiron football between elite coaches that could be a preview for a potential conference championship or even a national title game.
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