Alabama football: Way-too-early game-by-game predictions for 2023

Let’s predict just how good the Alabama football team will be in 2023 with its season schedule.

Alabama enters the 2023 college season with two new coordinators, a new starting quarterback and something to prove, alright.

Despite clobbering Kansas State in the Sugar Bowl, that wasn’t good enough for Nick Saban’s juggernaut program. The Crimson Tide have not won a national title since the height of COVID. What is going on in Tuscaloosa?! Relax, Alabama should be fine, but fine is not what the Crimson Tide faithful want to hear coming out of Mal Moore. So how good will Alabama be this season?

Let’s take a look at the 2023 regular-season schedule for the Tide and see how they will do.

Alabama football: Way-too-early game predictions for the 2023 Crimson Tide

You or I could start at quarterback vs. Middle Tennessee and Alabama will win

There are no preseason games in college football, but that is what the Week 1 home opener will feel like for the Crimson Tide. Middle Tennessee comes into Bryant-Denny to collect a paycheck and an opportunity of a lifetime, as Saban’s team will roll big time into Week 2. The best part is he does not even need to name a starting quarterback to win this game over the mighty Blue Raiders.

Winner: Alabama (1-0)

Texas will get a little taste of what it will be like to play on the road in the SEC

It may be all gas and no brakes for Steve Sarkisian in Austin, but on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, Texas will still not be back. The monkey business may be over. Quinn Ewers may be without his mullet, but not even five-star Arch Manning and his student ID losing ways can save the Longhorns in this one. It will be too bright of a stage in this non-conference game for the Longhorns to be victorious.

Winner: Alabama (2-0)

Alabama starts to look like Alabama again by throttling South Florida in Tampa

Alex Golesh may have it in him to fix whatever the hell Jeff Scott did before him in Tampa, but South Florida is a long ways away from being anything other than a doormat in the AAC. Texas may have given the Crimson Tide fits in the first half, but this rare road date at Raymond James will give Saban’s team the confidence it needs in the early part of the year. Oh, the Tide will roll!

Winner: Alabama (3-0)

A Lane Kiffin pulse check will be required after this barn burner with Ole Miss

No, your teenage daughter did not spend $750 at a local Zara; you merely watched the Crimson Tide take on the Ole Miss Rebels. Eventually, Lane Kiffin will beat his mentor head-to-head, but probably not until this rivalry game returns to Oxford again. The margin for error is too slim for the Rebels to prove victorious in Bryant-Denny, but Saban will be handing out some ass-chewings…

Winner: Alabama (4-0)