Predicting the rest of Alabama’s 2025 schedule
By David Wasson
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Confession time: I love making predictions.
It isn’t so much that I am particularly good at it. Oh no, that’s not the case. It’s just that it is so much fun trying to peer into the future on something – especially something as fun as college football – and attempting to divine a result that is so consistently beyond logic.
After all, did anyone back in July have Notre Dame starting the season 0-2? Did anyone stand on a tall pile of dirt and predict that Texas quarterback Arch Manning would so thoroughly disappoint that we’d openly (and jokingly…) wonder if he was an adopted Manning? Heck, not even the fine folks inside the South Florida Bulls program would have predicted they’d beat back-to-back Top 25 programs.
But here we are, back in the saddle of trying to predict the thoroughly unpredictable – this time taking a hearty swing at the remainder of the Alabama Crimson Tide’s 2025 football season. As always, your mileage may greatly vary on this… but know that if it all turns out just like we say it will, better believe we will be bragging about it forever!
Week 5 — at Georgia
Ah yes, the Bulldogs. Alabama will come at this after an off week – which is great and all until you realize that Georgia is also idle this week and should be fresh as a daisy for the Crimson Tide. Dawgs QB Gunner Stockton might still be finding his sea legs in the SEC, but this one being in Sanford Stadium is an ominous sign for the Tide.
Georgia wins to kick Alabama to 2-2 and restart the “Fire Kalen DeBoer” bandwagon.
Result: Loss
Season Record: 2-2
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Week 6 — vs. Vanderbilt
Wait a tick, Vanderbilt is not only unbeaten and ranked in the Top 25 right now, but might roll into Tuscaloosa with a 5-0 record? This is not good. The Commodores so thoroughly embarrassed South Carolina in Columbia last week that Diego Pavia’s mom got a date out of the deal.
But with the lights on bright at Bryant-Denny Stadium? Pavia and Vandy aren’t sneaking up on Alabama this time. The Tide avenges 2024 with a 2-TD victory.
Result: Win
Season Record: 3-2
Week 7 — at Mizzou
Here is another SEC team that could well be undefeated by the time the Tide are in front of them, as Mizzou gets the reeling Gamecocks and Massachusetts before this clash at ol’ Faurot. Alabama has never lost at ol’ Faurot, though, winning all 3 times it has made the journey to the other Columbia. And while QB Beau Pribula has the Tigers humming along right now, figure they’ll be set up for a fall when Alabama dons the crispy white road uniforms.
Cinderella season go bye-bye here, as Alabama cruises.
Result: Win
Season Record: 4-2
Week 8 — vs. Tennessee
It is, indeed, the Third Saturday in October – which means tons of sherbet orange will invade the Capstone with Arturo Fuentes firmly in their corn-jar grips. Alabama has pretty much made Tennessee’s season over the past couple seasons, dropping 2 of the last 3 in this storied rivalry.
But sparking up in Tuscaloosa? Alabama has done it 11 times in 15 attempts, and the last time the Vols prevailed on the road in this rivalry was the Saban-forsaken “more free football” 5-OT loss in 2003. Not this time. Alabama wins with a 4th-quarter comeback.
Result: Win
Season Record: 5-2
Week 9 — at South Carolina
We really don’t quite know what to make of the Gamecocks. Beating Virginia Tech and South Carolina State were expected outcomes, but the oversized egg South Carolina laid at Williams-Brice against Vanderbilt no one saw coming.
Quarterback LaNorris Sellers was just starting to get some Heisman buzz when a helmet-to-helmet shot took him out against the Commodores, but we figure he will be back to 100% far before this one. I’d lean Gamecocks before realizing the South Carolina State Fair packs up the weekend before. So Alabama wins this one, too.
Result: Win
Season Record: 6-2
Week 11 — vs. LSU
Fortunately, this game will not be in Baton Rouge – home of the real Death Valley. Problem is, LSU has seen some success in Tuscaloosa as the road team. Brian Kelly has the Tigers rolling early, and woe unto us if we were to point out in a press conference that his offense might be underachieving a touch early on.
Alabama will be ranked back in the top 10 at this point, which will make the Tide ripe for a fall. And LSU will deliver with another debilitating DeBoer loss.
Result: Loss
Season Record: 6-3
Week 12 — vs. Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Sooners might be the surprise team in the SEC, in that they could conceivably be undefeated by the time the Boomer Schooner rolls into town. Quarterback John Mateer might also be a Heisman contender by this time, but lighting it up at Washington State isn’t quite the same as contending with 100,000-plus at Bryant-Denny.
This is where the reverse DeBoer kicks into gear – as Oklahoma is probably a better team than Alabama, but DeBoer can’t conceivably lose every toss-up game… right?
Result: Win
Season Record: 7-3
Week 13 — vs. Eastern Illinois
Ah finally, a cupcake. The Panthers will receive a relatively paltry $560,000 for this visit, a chance for Alabama to get well before taking the trip south to you know where. It’ll be Senior Day, too, which is always a time Tide players make sure to put their very best foot forward.
Eastern Illinois lost 38-14 to an Indiana State team that lost to Indiana 73-0. Transitive logic means Alabama should win 168-negative 5. That probably won’t happen, but this will certainly be a laugher.
Result: Win
Season Record: 8-3
Week 14 — at Auburn
The Plains. Jordan-Hare. Suburban Opelika. All places that mean the same thing: Ground Zero for inexplicable problems for Alabama over the recent years. The Kick-6 will be played to death again in the lead-up to this game, though the Gravedigger is what Alabama fans will choose to remember.
Nothing ever goes right for Alabama on these journeys to Lee County, and we will be the first to portend doom here. Auburn wins and gleefully pays the $500,000 SEC fine for torn-down goalposts.
Result: Loss
Final Record: 8-4
An APSE national award-winning writer and editor, David Wasson has almost four decades of experience in the print journalism business in Florida and Alabama. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several national magazines and websites. He also hosts Gulfshore Sports with David Wasson, weekdays from 3-5 pm across Southwest Florida and on FoxSportsFM.com. His Twitter handle: @JustDWasson.
