Expectations for Alabama football should be high ahead of the 2025 season, at least, according to ESPN’s SP+ rankings.
Bill Connelly’s SP+ projection model puts a number to the returning production, recent recruiting and recent history of each team in FBS, turning these figures into “a tempo- and opponent adjusted measure of college football efficiency.”
And according to its post-spring practice measurement, the Crimson Tide is near the top of the list.
Alabama has the second-best SP+ nationally behind reigning national champion Ohio State. The Crimson Tide sits ahead of Penn State, Georgia and Texas.
Connelly lists the Crimson Tide having the fifth-best offense and the fifth-best defense according to the SP+ model. Alabama is also helped by returning 64% of its production from 2024, including 69% of its defense from last season.
Alabama football schedule 2025: Where Crimson Tide opponents rank in SP+
According to the latest SP+ ranking, Alabama has the No. 11 strength of schedule in college football, just outside of a top-10 that includes LSU (No. 9), South Carolina (No. 7), Florida (No. 2) and Oklahoma (No. 1)
Here’s a look at how each Alabama opponent fared in the latest SP+ rankings:
Florida State: No. 36Louisiana Monroe: No. 116Wisconsin: No. 37Georgia: No. 4Vanderbilt: No. 55Missouri: No. 21Tennessee: No. 13South Carolina: No. 17LSU: No. 9Oklahoma: No. 16Eastern Illinois: N/AAuburn: No. 25
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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