Early 2015 Schedule Outlook: Alabama

Alabama still has at least one game remaining on its schedule for this season, with the Sugar Bowl coming up on Thursday and a potential College Football Playoff Championship if they’re able to win.

The Crimson Tide will almost certainly enter 2015 as one of the top teams in the country, but they’ll be losing quite a few stars and have as tough of a road through the SEC as anyone next season.

Schedule breakdown

Home games (7): Middle Tennessee (9/12), Ole Miss (9/19), Lousiana-Monroe (9/26), Arkansas (10/10), Tennessee (10/24), LSU (11/7), Charleston Southern (11/21)

Road games (4): at Georgia (10/3), at Texas A&M (10/17), at Mississippi State (11/14), at Auburn (11/28)

Neutral site: Wisconsin, AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex. (9/5)

Open date: 10/31

Longest home stretch: 3 games (Middle Tennessee, Ole Miss, Louisiana-Monroe)

Longest road stretch: No consecutive games away from home

Opponent breakdown

2014 ranked teams (final regular season): No. 7 Mississippi State, No. 9 Ole Miss, No. 13 Georgia, No. 18 Wisconsin, No. 19 Auburn, No. 23 LSU

2015 ranked teams (early projections): No. 6 Georgia, No. 12 Auburn, No. 14 Mississippi State, No. 15 Tennessee, No. 17 LSU, No. 19 Ole Miss, No. 21 Wisconsin, No. 22 Arkansas, No. 24 Texas A&M

Potential trap games: Arkansas, one week prior to traveling to Kyle Field to play Texas A&M; Tennessee, last game before Week 9 open date

Toughest SEC games: at Georgia, vs. LSU, at Auburn

Full schedule

Brett Weisband

A former freelance journalist from Philadelphia, Brett has made the trek down to SEC country to cover the greatest conference in college football.