What was Alabama's one loss? (2023)

What was Alabama only loss?

Alabama was coming off a 52-49 loss to Tennessee Saturday, the second consecutive year the Tide's only regular season loss came on a field goal on the final play of a road game.

In 2011, Alabama lost 9-6 on a last-second field goal to LSU at Bryant Denny-Stadium.

Throwback Thursday: The moments that defined Alabama's 41-38 loss to Texas A&M in 2021.

I was proud of the way our guys competed in the game, we just didn't make quite enough plays when we needed to, and didn't make the play at the end of the game.” -- Saban said you have to play well on the road if you want to win the SEC West.

Not only do the Longhorns have a winning record against the Crimson Tide, they have the best record of any team that has faced Alabama more than once outside of Rice (3-0). Texas is 7-1 in the series.

Through the 2020 season, Alabama has compiled an official overall record of 929 wins, 331 losses, 43 ties and has appeared in 73 bowl games, with the most recent appearance and win coming in the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship.

The Crimson Tide finish the 2021 season with a record of 13–2 (7–1 in the SEC) as the defending consensus national champions and SEC champions, beating an undefeated Cincinnati in the College Football Playoff Semifinal before losing to Georgia in the 2022 College Football National Championship (rematch from the from ...

The Tide plays its home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Their overall official record under Saban is 189-27 (. 875) (194–27 on the field), 22 bowl game appearances with 16 victories, nine SEC West titles, eight SEC championships, and six national championships.

The last time Alabama lost 2 consecutive games was 2013, when they lost the Iron Bowl and then a bowl game to Oklahoma. Saban hasn't lost 2 consecutive regular-season games since his inaugural season in 2007.

FINAL: Tennessee takes down Alabama, 52-49

6 Tennessee tasted victory over No. 3 Alabama, topping the Tide 52-49 in an SEC thriller.

How did Alabama lose to Texas?

Texas A&M beats No. 1 Alabama 41-38 on last-play field goal. — During a speaking engagement this spring Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher used colorful language to proclaim his team would beat Alabama during coach Nick Saban's career.

The last time Alabama lost three games in one season was back in 2010, in Nick Saban's fourth season as head coach. Ranked No. 1 for the first half of the season, they fell to South Carolina by a two-touchdown margin before losing close games against LSU and Auburn that year — all three of whom were ranked.

With the departure of Hugh Freeze from Ole Miss and Kevin Sumlin from Texas A&M, Auburn coach Gus Malzahn stands alone among 13 current SEC coaches: he's the only one to have beaten Alabama's Nick Saban head-to-head.

You've got to learn from the mistakes that you made." Nick Saban after Alabama's heartbreak loss to Tennessee. The media could not be played. “You've got to learn from these experiences,” Saban said. “You've got to learn from the mistakes that you made.

Look, I can't blame the players. I'm responsible for all this stuff, so if we didn't do it right, that's on me, and we've gotta do a better job of coaching the players so that we give them a better chance to have success and when we get opportunities, we take advantage of them.”

It's the answer to a strange trivia question regarding Alabama football, that the Owls are the only college football team Alabama has played more than once and has never beaten. All three meetings took place in the 1950s, one in a bowl game and two in the regular season.

Alabama hasn't lost a game to the Razorbacks since 2006 in a 24-23 overtime thriller.

Including walk-ons, the Crimson Tide had 20 departures, including linebacker Drew Sanders to Arkansas, Shane Lee to Southern California, and numerous players to Texas, although not all made it through the season with their new teams.

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The loss was so painful at the time that I wasn't phased one bit by the the Wild Turkey bottle that smashed on my shoulder as I knew it was thrown for good reason.

How did Texas A&M beat Alabama?

The Texas A&M Aggies reeled off one of the biggest upsets of last season after taking down the No. 1-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide 41-38 in College Station. Aggies kicker Seth Small barely sneaked a 28-yard field goal into the uprights to give A&M one of its best wins in program history.

Alabama was the only school to appear in each of the first five Playoffs. The Tide lost to Ohio State in the semifinals in their 2014 debut before advancing to the title game the next four years. Alabama missed the 2019 College Football Playoff, but rebounded with another national championship in 2020.

Alabama hasn't lost back-to-back games since 2013 when the regular season ended with a loss in the Iron Bowl on the Kick Six followed by a 45-31 loss to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. It hasn't lost consecutive regular season games since Nick Saban's first season as the Alabama head coach in 2007.

Alabama hasn't lost to an unranked team since falling to Louisiana Monroe in 2007. Since then, the Tide have won a record 87 consecutive games against unranked teams heading into Saturday's game against … you guessed it, … unranked Tennessee.

Alabama leads the series in all three venues: for games contested in Birmingham, 21–14–6; in Knoxville, 27–21–1; and in Tuscaloosa, 10–4. Tennessee won the most recent game, played on October 15, 2022, 52–49, snapping a 15-game losing streak. Alabama and Tennessee both have 12 shutouts in the series.

Who is the best Alabama player ever?

The last time Alabama faced Texas in football was none other than the 2010 BCS National Championship Game, held on January 7, 2010, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. That game saw the Crimson Tide take down the Longhorns in a 37-21 victory to claim its first national title since 1992.

Alabama is just 1-7-1 vs. Texas, including regular-season losses in 1902, 1915 and 1922 in which the Longhorns outscored the Crimson Tide by a combined 49-10.

The Georgia Bulldogs defeated Alabama with a 33-18 victory over the Crimson Tide in the CFP National Championship Game. Alabama's 15 point loss on Monday night was their second-worst performance under Nick Saban.

19 losses in 10 years.

Few things in sports—or in life for that matter—are more difficult than beating the University of Alabama in football in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Consider this: Since the 2008 season, Nick Saban's second as head coach, the Crimson Tide is 84-5 at home. That's right--84 wins and only five losses in 13 seasons.

Before Nick Saban started winning national championships on the field at Alabama, he won them on the recruiting paths. It only took one year for him to accomplish the latter feat for the first time with the Crimson Tide. Rivals ranked Saban's 2008 recruiting class as the best in the nation.

It's a stat that showcases the utter dominance of Saban's program that stretches 16 seasons now. Alabama has an active streak of 54 consecutive non-conference regular season games without a defeat (last loss coming back in 2007). That streak is the longest of its kind in the AP Poll Era (since 1936).

The former Crimson Tide offensive coordinator is never at a loss for words, and certainly wasn't during his postgame press conference. It came down to the end again, but Lane Kiffin has yet to beat his former boss and head coach, Nick Saban.

What do Alabama fans yell at kickoff?

"Reverse Rammer Jammer"

Dubbed the "Reverse Rammer Jammer," the beat and music are the same, but the words of the chant are changed to, "Hey, Alabama!

"Roll Tide." It's a saying that, unless you're an Alabama Crimson Tide fan, you probably can't stand hearing people yell to each other. Using it as a way to show both unity and appreciation for one another, it has been yelled at some pretty interesting times—which have, thankfully, been caught on tape.

-- Nick Saban is frustrated that his football team has lost two games by four points total, with both defeats coming on the last play of the game.

6 Tennessee snapping a 15-game losing streak against No. 3 Alabama with a 52-49 victory secured in the last second. The Tennessee Volunteers scored the most points ever in the 105-game series and some fans in their celebrations even took down the goalposts.

The Volunteers of 1980 were not a good football team, but they had a splendid outing at Auburn. They just plain trampled the Tigers, 42-0, and Tennessee's delirious fans chanted, “We want 'Bama, We want 'Bama.”

Nick Saban warns of falling for rat poison ahead of Alabama football vs. Texas A&M. Fall for the rat poison once, shame on you. Fall for the rat poison twice, shame on me.

Alabama vs. Ole Miss over/under: 65 points. Alabama vs.

And, because whenever oddsmakers do doubt college football's most feared program, it gets even scarier. They've labeled Alabama an underdog three times over 13 seasons: the 2009 SEC championship against Florida; a 2015 regular season game against Georgia; and last month's SEC title game against Georgia.

If the Crimson Tide win the game by three or more points, a $100 wager on Alabama would come with a payout of $90.91.

Who has Alabama lost to in the last 5 years?

The No. 6 Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost in overtime at No. 10 LSU, 32-31, Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd at Tiger Stadium.

Alabama hasn't lost to an unranked team since falling to Louisiana Monroe in 2007. Since then, the Tide have won a record 87 consecutive games against unranked teams heading into Saturday's game against … you guessed it, …