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Alabama has 32 conference championships and holds NCAA records with 73 postseason bowl game appearances and 44 bowl game victories. [3] [4] The Crimson Tide has also had 11 undefeated seasons, a longest winning streak of 28 games between 1978 and 1980 and a home winning streak of 57 games between 1963 and 1982. [5] Alabama leads the SEC West ...
After Bryant retired, Ray Perkins extended Alabama's consecutive bowl game streak to 25 years with a victory in the 1983 Sun Bowl. [9] However, the streak ended when the 1984 team finished the season with a record of five wins and six losses and failed to qualify for a bowl for the first time in 26 years. [10]
Many cite the 2014 meeting as the biggest game in the series where Alabama faced a #1 ranked, 10–0 Mississippi State team with Dak Prescott as its quarterback. Alabama won 25–20, which helped catapult them into the first College Football Playoff. Alabama won the most recent meeting 40–17 in Starkville, and leads the series 86–18–3. [114]
Alabama has had 28 head coaches since organized football began in 1892. Adopting the nickname "Crimson Tide" after the 1907 season, 12 coaches have led the Crimson Tide in postseason bowl games: Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Harold D. "Red" Drew, Bear Bryant, Ray Perkins, Bill Curry, Gene Stallings, Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Shula, Joe Kines, and Nick Saban. [7]
In August 2017, The coaches poll ranked Alabama #1 for the 2nd straight year. It was later announced that the preseason AP poll had also ranked the Tide #1. #1 Alabama played #3 Florida State in a game billed as the greatest opener of all time. Alabama won easily 24–7 and injured FSU QB Deondre Francois. They defeated Mountain West opponents ...
The official NCAA record book claims a 233 game scoring streak for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1974 through to 1991 to place the Huskers tied for 24 on the list. However, Nebraska's streak during those years was 220 games [ 13 ] , and would not be sufficient to be in this top 25.
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The Alabama Crimson Tide football program is a college football team that represents the University of Alabama in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Southeastern Conference (SEC). These stats are updated through Alabama's game against Michigan on December 31, 2024.