Is Alabama football improved enough to make the CFP in 2025?

Happy Friday, everyone. Alabama Baseball has a big one to close the home schedule this weekend.

The long -awaited series between No. 23 Alabama baseball and no. 6 Georgia has arrived. The Bulldogs (39-11, 15-9 sec) will travel to Tuscaloosa this weekend for the second SEC series for the conference tournament.

The Crimson Tide (37-12, 13-11 SEC) divided its last four games on Tuesday, with a 10-2 victory over number 19 Troy as his most recent outing. Team captain Kade Snell Had four hits in the game. Alabama lost his last sec series to Vanderbilt after a walk-off, 9-7 defeat in Nashville last Sunday.

Georgia wiped Missouri on the road last weekend and did not play a midweek, which means that the visitors are fresher than the Karmozijnrode tide at a point in the season where teams finish their midweek; The Troy game was Alabamas last midweek of the campaign.

Bring it better, guys.

The athletics investigate which football programs have or not improved to make a run this season.

The violation staggered in some early situations, most clearly in a disastrous performance in a loss of 24-3 in Oklahoma. The losses for Tennessee and Michigan were better. Alabama finished 22nd in Yards each (6.33) and scored (33.8), but the attack was inconsistent. Opponents registered 77 tackles for loss against the Crimson Tide, which is permitted in TFLs Nationally 97th. They also committed 21 turnover, which were also in 97th place. That is many negative plays.

Jalen Milroe was an exciting quarterback with seductive highlights but ugly lows. With Milroe to the NFL, the Crimson Tide needs more consistency at Quarterback. Ty Simpson, backup from last year, is in charge of a three-man race for the track.

Deboer brought Ryan Grubb, his old attacking coordinator, to Tuscaloosa, who should benefit the violation. Alabama also added Miami Transfer Isaiah Horton (56 catches for 616 Yards and five touchdowns in 2024) to a receiving corps with a star of second -year student Ryan Williams and veteran Germie Bernard.

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The Longhorns who came in at number 4 in the Talent Composite in 2024 had set up two defensive tackles on day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft. No problem, right? Stop and just go thanks to your recruitment profits.

Not so fast.

Seven DTs played more than 10 snaps behind that set up for Texas last season. Two graduated. Four introduced the transfer portal.

This way you arrive at a place where Texas, after four straight-six recruitment classes, has to sign five defensive tackles in the portal.

You can see such examples in all the top grilles. Georgia lost the number 3 player in the portal, Damon Wilson, to Missouri. Alabama lost his start -judge Tackle Elia Pritchett Unpleasant Nebraska. Clemson lost part -time starting DT Tre Williams To Michigan.

The top programs still have more talent than anyone else, but other teams spend a lot of upgrading their schedules through the transfer portal. Fortunately, keeping depths strikes makes it more difficult than ten years ago when Nick Saban was in fact stored a controversial recruit for two or three years before they came forward as fully formed samples. In this era, those players transfer after a season or two to go up the field.

Anyone who cannot objectively see that the product on the field is less, just doesn't want that.

Lotzeir Brooks continues to get all hype.

Top newcomer: WR Lotzeir Brooks (No. 102 in the ESPN 300)

Why: Alabama was not particularly aggressive in the transfer portal, so there could be a chance for a first -year student from his fourth ranked recruitment class to stand up. The 5-9, 180 pound Brooks is the most decorated high school receiver coming from New Jersey and sets the state record for receiving yards (4,615) and touchdowns (67). He arrived early in Tuscaloosa and played heads in Alabamas Spring practices as a final recipient.

What to expect: Playing next to second -year Ryan Williams, Brooks could arise as a contribution to the attack of Kalen Deboers as the season progresses. It is small but dynamic and very quickly and suddenly in his movements. Brooks creates separation as a route buyer, especially underneath. He is a chain mover after the catch with large burst and acceleration, and he sees the field well. Brooks could show off those attributes early as a point -backer.

If you go to Minnesota for a recruit, it should be an offensive lineman.

Currently the number 1 rated recruit via 247sports Rankings and the 247 composition for Minnesota in their 2026 class is Jackson County Central Four-Star Roman Voss. Voss has just announced on social media That he has now received a top two schools of the In-State Golden Gophers and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Minnesota coaches Eric Koehler, Greg Harbaugh and head coach PJ Fleck have made it clear to Voss that he has been a huge priority for them for almost a year since the GoPher offer. Voss came to a Gopher competition last fall, was back on campus for a junior day in the winter, and was most recently on campus for a spring training.

Alabama is a newer offer to the party for Voss, but there are many connections with the Crimson Tide coaches Kalen Deboer and Ryan Grubb, who have strong connections with that part of the state.

View this nugget from the Michael Lynn Davis test.

Johnson testified that his intention was to be back to Birmingham in the driver's seat.

Johnson turned right to University Boulevard before he made an directly in an alley on the other side of the Houndstooth bar in the direction where the car of some friends, a Red Chevy Impala, was parked.

The same Impala can be seen on surveillance video shown in court after Johnson on the short narrow space that connects to Grace Street. This is when the headlights of the Jeep were switched off. Johnson testified that he did not know that the lights were cut off.

Cedric went home, but first he just had to come to a parking lot to meet his buddy to help him pull a gun out of the trunk, then turn his lights off and pull around with his lights if someone planned would do a drive-by shoot.

Which of us did not do that, am I right?

Oh yes, he also gave his phone to the police that night, but did not remember the password and was so often wrong that the phone was locked. There are no indications that the police were trying to get further access to his phone information. Somehow, after all, Cedric has not been a suspect in this matter at all.

Last … just fun.

The 24-year-old friend of UNC-Chapel Hill Voetbal Coach Bill Belichick73, it is not permitted in the football building or on the football field at the university, higher ups at the school last week, according to ESPNS Pablo Torre, who broke the news on his podcast on Friday 9 May.

Two sources gave the information to Torre, he said Pablo Torre finds out.

Don't think you hear a lot from Jordon who is making progress, a source reportedly told the broadcaster.

Hudson is set to compete in the Miss Maine USA parade This weekend.

Meanwhile, Belichick The best paid state employee in North Carolina For $ 10 million a year and UNC, the University Football season starts when the team accepts TCU in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland on 29 August.

That's about today. Have a nice weekend.

Roll Tide.