2023 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 2023 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "Bama", or "The Tide") represents the University of Alabama in the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season marks the Crimson Tide's 129th overall season, 90th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and 32nd within the SEC Western Division. The play their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and are led by 17th-year head coach Nick Saban. This is also expected to be the final year for the West division as Texas and Oklahoma will join the SEC in 2024. Offseason

Team departures 
Over the course of the off-season, Alabama lost 45 total players. 15 players graduated, 12 declared for the 2023 NFL Draft, while the other 18 entered the transfer portal. Transfer portal

Outgoing transfers 
21 Alabama players elected to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal during or after the 2022 season. Note: Players with a dash in the new school column didn't land on a new team for the 2023 season. Incoming transfers 
Over the off-season, Alabama added six players from the transfer portal. According to 247 Sports, Alabama had the No. 60 ranked transfer class in the country. Returning starters 

* Bowl game not played. ^ Waiting decision for 2023 season. † Indicates player was a starter in 2021 but missed all of 2022 due to injury. Recruiting class 

Alabama signed 29 players in the class of 2023. The Crimson Tide' recruiting class ranks No. 1 in the 247Sports and Rivals rankings. 23 signees were ranked in the ESPN 300 top prospect list. Alabama also signed walk-ons during national signing period. 2023 Overall class rankings

NFL draft

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Preseason

Spring game 

The Crimson Tide are scheduled to hold spring practices in March and April 2023 with the Alabama football spring game, "A-Day" to take place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 22, 2023, with the Crimson team beating the White team 30–21. Award watch lists 
Listed in the order that they were released

SEC media days 
The 2023 SEC Media days were held on July 17–20, 2023 at Grand Hyatt in Nashville, TN. The Preseason Polls were released July 2023. Each team had their head coach available to talk to the media at the event on July 19, 2023, with Nick Saban (HC), JC Latham, (OL), Kool-Aid McKinstry, (DB) and Dallas Turner, (LB). Coverage of the event was televised on SEC Network and ESPN. Preseason All-SEC teams and All-American honors

Media 
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Second Team

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Personnel

Roster

Coaching staff 
Alabama head coach Nick Saban entered his seventeenth year as the Crimson Tide's head coach for the 2023 season. During his previous seventeen years with Alabama, he led the Crimson Tide to an overall record of 188 wins and 27 losses () and the 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020 national championships. Graduate Assistants  
 Brenten Wimberly – Graduate Assistant 
 Braxton Barker – Graduate Assistant
 Jamey Mosley – Graduate Assistant

Analysts 
Dean Altobelli – Defensive Analyst
Bert Biffani – Defensive Backs Analyst
Ryan Finck – Offensive Analyst
Nick Cochran – Offensive Analyst
George Banko – Football Analyst
 Tony Billings – Assistant Offensive Analyst
 Zach Mettenberger – Football Analyst
 Derek Dooley – Offensive Analyst
 Jake Long – Defensive Analyst
 Nick McGriff – Special Teams Analyst
Charlie Strong – Defensive Analyst

Depth chart 

True Freshman

Injury report

Schedule 
Alabama and the SEC announced the 2023 football schedule on September 20, 2022. The 2023 Crimson Tide' schedule consists of 7 home games and 5 away games for the regular season. Alabama will host four SEC conference opponents Arkansas, Ole Miss (rivalry), Tennessee (Third Saturday in October) and arch-rival LSU (rivalry) at home and will travel to four SEC opponents, Kentucky, Mississippi State (rivalry), Texas A&M and in-state-rival Auburn for the 88th annual (Iron Bowl) to close out the SEC regular season on the road. Alabama is not scheduled to play SEC East opponents Florida (rivalry), Georgia (rivalry),Missouri, South Carolina and Vanderbilt in the 2023 regular season. The Crimson Tide's bye week comes during week 9 (on October 28, 2023). Alabama's out of conference opponents represent the Conference USA, Big 12, American and SoCon conferences. The Crimson Tide will host three non–conference games which are against Middle Tennessee from the C-USA, Texas from the Big 12 and to close out the regular season with Chattanooga from the SoCon (FCS) and will travel against South Florida from the American. Game summaries

Middle Tennessee

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No. 11 Texas 

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At South Florida 

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No. 15 Ole Miss 

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at Mississippi State

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at Texas A&M

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Arkansas 

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No. 17 Tennessee

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No. 14 LSU 

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At Kentucky 

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Chattanooga 

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Rankings

Awards and honors

Media affiliates

Radio 
 WTID (FM) (Tide 102.9) – Nationwide (ESPN Radio, Dish Network, Sirius XM, Varsity Network and iHeartRadio)

TV 
CBS Family – CBS 42 (CBS), CBS Sports Network
ESPN/ABC Family – ABC 33/40 (ABC), ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN+, SEC Network
FOX Family – WBRC (FOX), FOX/FS1, FSN
NBC – WVTM-TV (NBC), NBC Sports
WVUA-CD (campus TV station)

TV ratings 

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

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