ESPN recently gave Alabama football wide receiver Ryan Williams an impressive ranking in their top 100 players list.

The Sooners are one of those real mystery teams in 2025, coming off a disappointing season but one with sprigs of hope. Injuries decimated the OU offense for big portions of last season in a way that skewed some results. Scoring one of the top transfer QBs in John Mateer pumped some energy into a program that needs a boost.

Alabama failed to meet expectations the last two seasons, but it should look different with Kalen DeBoer's year of experience.

Will Alabama contend for the national championship in 2025, or make the College Football Playoff? Joel Klatt gave his analysis of Kalen DeBoer's team.

The College Football Playoff selection committee announced it will place more emphasis on strength of schedule this year when determining the 12-team field.

USA TODAY Sports preseason college football rankings have higher view of the Alabama Crimson Tide in Year 2 under Kalen DeBoer than the top 25 polls.

Bud Light announced Aug. 20 it is bringing back its college football team cans for the 2025-26 season. See which teams are represented.

The new metric -- titled record strength -- will give further credit to how a team performs against its schedule. It will give extra credit for beating quality teams, while lessening the penalty for losses against tougher opponents.

Five of the six national champions from the 2018-23 seasons went undefeated, marking an era filled with dominant teams. Last year’s debut of the 12-team College Football Playoff featured a two-loss Ohio State team as national champion, which could signal that being a dominant champion is now more difficult.

The Athletic has released its list of the 25 most interesting people in college football, and Clemson standout Peter Woods made the cut.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— Sixth-year Alabama veteran Jah-Marien Latham has more or less seen it all. He's the last man standing from the 2020 national championship team. He moved to Wolf linebacker for this fall. Now, he's taking reps at various spots in camp.