Early 2026 Alabama Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Mike Rodak of Bama247 to preview Alabama’s 2026 season.
Alabama Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/alabama/
(00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:40) - Vibe Heading into 2026 (00:05:00) - Staff Changes (00:10:00) - Quarterbacks (00:15:15) - Runningbacks (00:18:00) - Offensive Line (00:20:50) - Wide Receivers (00:22:40) - Offensive Name To Know (00:24:40) - Defensive Front (00:28:05) - Linebackers (00:30:00) - Defensive Backs (00:33:00) - Schedule Breakdown
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:19.1 | What's going on, y'all? |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Bud Elliott, and welcome back to summer school. It is in session here on the cover three podcast with Mike Rodak, your Alabama expert today. That's right. It's Alabama. Let's go, man. Let's have fun with this. Yeah, it's going to be fun. No doubt. All right. So last year, you know, tied pretty good year. Obviously, Alabama fans' expectations are always sky high. |
| 0:40.9 | You can do three hours of local radio every day on, you know, the college football team and have like a viable business. |
| 0:46.2 | Obviously, you all absolutely crushed what you're doing for 24-7 sports. |
| 0:50.8 | 11 and 4, you know, lost in a playoff, 6 and 2 in the SEC, you know, lost the SC title game to Georgia. |
| 0:58.8 | What's the general vibe right now around where this program is under Kailin DeBore? |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, I mean, it was kind of an interesting year in that it started off very badly in a very kind of shocking way, you know, with the Florida State game and losing that |
| 1:12.7 | when a lot of people just weren't expecting that at all. And that kind of really put Kalin de Boar behind |
| 1:18.1 | the eight ball. And there's, you know, stories about booster discontent and just a lot of bad vibes. |
| 1:24.9 | And, you know, they kind of pulled it together. And they were able to go to Georgia and win. They're able to beat Tennessee. And they kind of pulled it together and they were able to go to |
| 1:28.1 | Georgia and win they were able to beat Tennessee and they kind of had that that winning streak in |
| 1:32.4 | the middle of the season you know they they did lose that game to Oklahoma November but |
| 1:37.0 | it was really the end of the season that I think you either have to take it one way or the other. |
| 1:44.5 | You can say they made the SEC championship game and they made the playoff, which was an |
| 1:49.6 | improvement from Kalin DeBoer's first year. |
| 1:52.5 | And those are steps forward. |
| 1:54.0 | And I think that's really the line that DeBoer is trying to sell right now. |
| 1:59.0 | Or you can look at the way the SEC championship game |
| 2:02.4 | unfolded, which was a pretty resounding win for Georgia. And then you can look at the way the Rose Bowl |
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