2024 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

The 2024 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "Bama", or "The Tide") will represent the University of Alabama during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season will mark the Crimson Tide's 130th overall season, and 91st as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Crimson Tide will play their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It will be the first year under new coach Kalen DeBoer.

Nick Saban, who had coached the team since 2007 winning six National Championships, retired in the offseason.

NFL draft
The NFL draft was held at Campus Martius Park in Detroit, MI on April 25-27, 2024. Crimson Tide who were picked in the 2024 NFL Draft:

Transfer portal
Forty-one Alabama players elected to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal during or after the 2023 season. Over the off-season, Alabama added thirteen players from the transfer portal. According to 247 Sports, Alabama had the No. 3 ranked transfer class in the country.
 * 2023 PT = 2023 Playing Time

Note: Players with a dash in the new school column didn't land on a new team for the 2024 season.

Recruiting class
The following recruits and transfers have signed letters of intent or verbally committed to the Alabama Crimson Tide football program for the 2024 recruiting year.

*= 247Sports Composite rating; ratings are out of 1.00. (five stars= 1.00–.98, four stars= .97–.90, three stars= .80–.89) †= Despite being rated as a four and five star recruit by ESPN, On3.com, Rivals.com and 247Sports.com, Mbakwe and Williams received a five star 247Sports Composite rating. Δ= Julian Sayin, Peyton Woodyard and Jameer Grimsley left the Alabama program following signing but prior to the 2024 season.
 * Originally class of 2025, but reclassified to 2024.

2024 Overall class rankings

 Walks-ons 



Spring game
The Crimson Tide are scheduled to hold 15 spring practices on March 8-17, 2024 with the Alabama football spring game, "A-Day" to take place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 13, 2024 with the Crimson team beating the White team 34–28.

Preseason media day
The 2024 SEC Media days will be held on July 15–18, 2024 at Omni Hotel Dallas in downtown Dallas, TX. The Preseason Polls were released July 2024. Each team had their head coach available to talk to the media at the event on July 17, 2024, with Kalen DeBoer (HC), Jalen Milroe (QB), Tyler Booker (OL) and Malachi Moore (DB). Coverage of the event was televised on SEC Network and ESPN.

Preseason All-SEC teams
First Team

Second Team

Third Team

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Preseason All-Americans
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Award watch lists
Listed in the order that they were released

Coaching staff
Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer entered his first year as the Crimson Tide's head coach for the 2024 season. During his previous seventeen years with Alabama, Saban led the Crimson Tide to an overall record of 201 wins and 29 losses (.870) and the 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020 national championships.

Western Kentucky

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South Florida

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at Wisconsin

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Georgia

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at Vanderbilt

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South Carolina

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at Tennessee

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Missouri

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at LSU

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Mercer

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at Oklahoma

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Auburn

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