The Alabama Crimson Tide has started the 2025 season in the worst way possible.

Florida State played Alabama in Week 1 of the 2025 college football season, and the game did not go as many experts had predicted.

If No. 8 Alabama is going to return to the College Football Playoff, the Crimson Tide will need to play better away from home.

Alabama dropped road games to Vanderbilt, Tennessee, and Oklahoma last year and then lost to Michigan in a bowl game in Tampa, Florida. Those setbacks left the Tide at 9-4 and would snap the program’s 16-year run with double-digit victories.

Over the weekend, the Alabama Crimson Tide fell to Florida State, 31-17, in what was arguably the most surprising result of Week 1. It was a frustrating game where the fan base wanted safety Bray Hubbard cut from the

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