The 2022 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "Bama", or " The Tide") represents the

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in the

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. This season marks the Crimson Tide's 129th overall season, 90th as a member of the

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(SEC), and 31st within the SEC Western Division. They play their home games at

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, and are led by 16th-year head coach

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Previous season

The Crimson Tide finish the 2021 season with a record of 12–2 (7–1 in the SEC) as the defending consensus national champions and SEC champions, beating an undefeated

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in the College Football Playoff Semifinal before losing to

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in the 2022 College Football National Championship (rematch from the from

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and 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship).

Offseason

Departures

Team departures

Over the course of the off-season, Alabama lost 37 total players. 8 players graduated, 6 declared for the 2022 NFL Draft, while the other 23 entered the transfer portal.

Outgoing transfers

Twenty-three players elected to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal during or after the 2021 season. Note: Players with a dash in the new school column didn't land on a new team for the 2022 season.

Acquisitions

Incoming transfers

Over the off-season, Alabama added 6 players from the transfer portal. According to 247 Sports, Alabama had the 6th ranked transfer class in the country. The first transfer was running back

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. Gibbs transferred from

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. On the offensive side, Alabama also added

wide receiver

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wide receiver Tyler Harrell and Vanderbilt offensive lineman Tyler Steen. However, Alabama only took 1 defensive transfer in

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defensive back Elias Ricks.

2022 recruiting class

Alabama signed 26 players in the class of 2022. The Crimson Tide' recruiting class ranks 2nd in the 247Sports and Rivals rankings. Nineteen signees were ranked in the ESPN 300 top prospect list. Alabama also signed walk-ons during national signing period. *= 247Sports Composite rating; ratings are out of 1.00. ''(five stars= 1.00–.98, four stars= .97–.90, three stars= .80–.89, two stars= .79–.70, no stars= <70)''
†= Despite being rated as a four and five star recruit by

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, On3.com,

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and 247Sports.com, Alexander received a five star 247Sports Composite rating.
Δ= Left the Alabama program following signing but prior to the 2022 season. 2022 overall class rankings

Walk-ons

2023 recruiting class

2023 Overall class rankings

NFL Draft

Several Crimson Tide players have declared for the 2022

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thus far. Wide receivers Slade Bolden, John Metchie III and Jameson Williams, running back Brian Robinson, offensive lineman Evan Neal, defensive lineman Phidarian Mathis, defensive backs Josh Jobe and Jalyn Armour-Davis and linebackers Chris Allen and Christian Harris. They all entered their names into the draft pool. Due to COVID-19, the NCAA granted an extra year of eligibility to all college athletes, and all could have returned for another year at Alabama.

Returning starters

Offense Defense Special Teams † Indicates player was a starter in 2021 but missed all of 2022 due to injury.

Preseason

Spring game

The Crimson Tide are scheduled to hold spring practices in March and April 2022 with the Alabama football spring game, "A-Day" to take place in

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on April 16, 2022.

Award watch lists

Listed in the order that they were released

SEC media days

The 2022 SEC Media days were held on July 18–21, 2022 at College Football Hall of Fame and The Omni Atlanta Hotel at

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with Nick Saban (HC), Bryce Young (QB), Jordan Battle (DL) and Will Anderson Jr. (LB). The Preseason Polls were released July 22, 2022. Each team had their head coach available to talk to the media at the event. Coverage of the event was televised on

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and

Preseason All-SEC

Media

First Team Second Team Third Team Source:

Coaches

First Team Second Team Third Team Source:

Preseason All-Americans

Personnel

Roster

Coaching staff

;Support staff * JT Summerford – Director of Football Operations * Brandy Lyerly – Associate Director of Football Operations * Ashleigh Kimble – Associate Director of Recruiting Operations * Ellis Ponder – Associate Athletic Director & Football Chief Operating Officer * Sam Petitto – Director of Personnel Operations * Bob Welton – Director of Player Personnel * Roger Bedford – Assistant Director of Player Personnel * Joe Pendry – Special Assistant to Head Coach * Todd Watson – Special Assistant to Head Coach *

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– Senior Special Assistant to Head Coach * Drew Svoboda – Senior Special Assistant to Head Coach * Erinn Joe – Assistant Director of Player Personnel * Denzel Devall – Player Personnel/Player Development Assistant * Josh Chapman – Director of Player Development * Evan Van Nostrand – Assistant Director of Player Development, Character and Career Development * Daniel Bush – Director of Football Recruitment * Makenzie Votteler – Associate Director, Football Recruitment * Carrigan Johnson – Football Operations Coordinator * Cedric Burns – Athletics Relations Coordinator * Savannah French – Football Marketing Coordinator * Kyle Smith – Director of Football Equipment * Jeff Springer – Assistant Athletic Director of Equipment Operations * Tim Roberts – Intern Equipment Manager * Linda Leoni – Administrative Assistant * Glenda Edwards – Administrative Secretary * Daniel Lyerly – Assistant Athletic Director of Football Video Operations * Kaleb Medema – Assistant Director of Football Video Operations * Cass McCord – Assistant Director of Football Video Operations * Jessica Beckenstein – Head Coach's Office Coordinator * Paul Constantine – Director of Sports Applied Science * Rick Danison – Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach * UJ Johnson – Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach * Jessica Pare – Deputy Athletic Director, External * Josh Maxson – Assistant Athletic Director of Communications ;Assistants * Max Bullough * Brenten Wimberly * Ryan Finck * Braxton Barker ;Analysts *Dean Altobelli *Bert Biffani *

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* Will Lawing * Dave Huxtable *Nick Cochran *George Banko *

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* Derek Dooley * Todd Grantham * Cornelius Williams * Nick McGriff

Depth chart

''True Freshman''

Schedule

The 2022 Crimson Tide' schedule consists of 7 home games and 5 away games for the regular season. Alabama will host four SEC conference opponents

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(

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), Vanderbilt,

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and arch-rival Auburn for the 87th

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to close out the SEC regular season at home and will travel to four SEC opponents,

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, Ole Miss (

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(

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) and rival

(

) to close out the SEC regular season on the road. Alabama is not scheduled to play SEC East opponents

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(

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, and

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in the 2022 regular season. The Crimson Tide's bye week comes during week 9 (on October 29, 2022). Alabama's out of conference opponents represent the

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, Sun Belt and ASUN conferences. The Crimson Tide will host three non–conference games which are against

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from the Mountain West, Louisiana–Monroe from the Sun Belt and to close out the regular season with Austin Peay from the ASUN (FCS) and will travel against

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(Big 12) in Austin, TX.

Game summaries

Utah State

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at Texas

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Louisiana–Monroe

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Vanderbilt

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at No. 20 Arkansas

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Texas A&M

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at No. 6 Tennessee

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No. 24 Mississippi State

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at No. 10 LSU

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at No. 11 Ole Miss

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Austin Peay

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Auburn

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vs. No. 9 Kansas State

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Rankings

Statistics

Team

Individual leaders

Defense

Key: POS: Position, SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, PD: Passes Defended, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FR: Fumbles Recovered, FF: Forced Fumbles, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties, TD : Touchdown

Special teams

Scoring

Alabama vs Non-Conference Opponents Alabama vs SEC Opponents Alabama vs All Opponents

After the season

Awards and SEC honors

All-Americans

All Star game

NFL Draft

The

will be held at Arrowhead Stadium in

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on April 27–29, 2023. Crimson Tide who were picked in the 2023 NFL Draft:

NFL Draft combine

No members of the 2022 team were invited to participate in drills at the

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. † Top performer DNP = Did not participate

Media affiliates

Radio

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(Tide 102.9) – Nationwide (Dish Network, Sirius XM,

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radio and iHeartRadio)

TV

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Family – CBS 42 (CBS),

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Family –

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(ABC),

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, ESPNU, ESPN+,

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Family –

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(FOX),

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, FSN *

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–

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, NBC Sports, NBCSN

TV ratings

All totals via Sports Media Watch. Streaming numbers not included. † - Data not available.

References

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