In the sixth and final part of our 2025 high school football survey preview, the AL.com experts were asked to name one game they didn’t want to miss this fall. One of those games happens on the first Friday of the season.

Milroe played four seasons with Alabama, working his way up to sixth in Heisman Trophy voting in 2023. The senior threw for 2844 yards in 2024 to accompany 20 rushing touchdowns. He was drafted in the third round of this year’s NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks.

Now, Smart and the Bulldogs get their personal boogeyman at home in 2025 with a great deal on the line. No pressure or anything. CB 2024 Prediction: 10-2; I got this one right but had a loss to Alabama and Texas rather than Alabama and Ole Miss.

Ryan Williams has inked a major Name, Image and Likeness deal ahead of the 2025 football season. The Alabama football sophomore wide receiver was announced as a Nike athlete, joining a team of athletes such as LeBron James, Kylian Mbappe, Tiger Woods and Simone Biles.

In his preseason SEC football power rankings this week, the veteran college football scribe has Alabama at No. 3 behind Texas and Georgia -- the two teams who met in last year's conference title game.

Cary Cox and Holt Rast were teammates at Alabama in the late 1930s, and later served with distinction in the U.S. Army during the war. Cox was part of the Allied campaign in North Africa in 1942, and earned the Bronze Star for bravery during the invasion of Sicily the following year.

Alabama's Ryan Williams is officially a Nike athlete after a stellar freshman season that saw him become a college football star.

Chris Goode beat the odds by going from an Alabama football backup to an NFL veteran. Now he’s looking to beat them in HBCU football.

Alabama football finished just seventh in total offense in the SEC last season. Here's why Kalen DeBoer believes that will improve in 2025.

During the 2024 season, Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry became the 28th player in NFL history to score at least 100 touchdowns. With 16 rushing touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns pushing his career total to 111,