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1975 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1975 Alabama Crimson Tide football
SEC champion
Sugar Bowl champion
Sugar Bowl, W 13–6 vs. Penn State
Conference Southeastern Conference
Ranking
Coaches No. 3
AP No. 3
1975 record 11–1 (6–0 SEC)
Head coach Bear Bryant (18th year)
Captain Leroy Cook
Captain Richard Todd
Home stadium Denny Stadium
Legion Field
Seasons
← 1974
1976 →
1975 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#3 Alabama $ 6 – 0 – 0     11 – 1 – 0
Florida 5 – 1 – 0     9 – 3 – 0
#19 Georgia 5 – 1 – 0     9 – 3 – 0
Ole Miss 5 – 1 – 0     6 – 5 – 0
Tennessee 3 – 3 – 0     7 – 5 – 0
Vanderbilt 2 – 4 – 0     7 – 4 – 0
LSU 2 – 4 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
Mississippi State 1 – 4 – 1     6 – 4 – 1
Auburn 1 – 4 – 1     3 – 6 – 2
Kentucky 0 – 6 – 0     2 – 8 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Mississippi State later forfeited all 1975 wins and one tie due to NCAA violations.
Rankings from AP Poll
1 2 3 4 Total
• Missouri 10 10 0 0 20
#2 Alabama 0 0 0 7 7
  • Date: September 8
  • Location: Legion Field
    Birmingham, AL
  • Game attendance: 63,000
  • Sources:
1 2 3 4 Total
Clemson 0 0 0 0 0
• #14 Alabama 16 19 7 14 56
  • Date: September 20
  • Location: Denny Stadium
    Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Game attendance: 58,383
  • Sources:
1 2 3 4 Total
• #11 Alabama 10 10 6 14 40
Vanderbilt 0 0 7 0 7
  • Date: September 27
  • Location: Dudley Field
    Nashville, TN
  • Game attendance: 34,000
  • Sources:
1 2 3 4 Total
Ole Miss 0 0 0 6 6
• #9 Alabama 0 16 6 10 32
  • Date: October 4
  • Location: Legion Field
    Birmingham, AL
  • Game attendance: 70,000
  • Sources:

The 1975 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 81st overall and 42nd season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 18th year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with eleven wins and one loss (11–1 overall, 6–0 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a victory over Penn State in the Sugar Bowl.

The 1975 squad entered the season with the No. 2 ranking in the AP Poll and as one of the favorites to compete for the national championship. Their championship hopes were dashed after they were upset by an unranked Missouri team in their season opener at Legion Field. Although Alabama dropped into the No. 14 position prior to their second game against Clemson, they would not lose another game during the season as they climbed up the polls back into a top five position by season's end.

After their shutout over Clemson, Alabama traveled to Nashville in the first road game of the season where they defeated Vanderbilt. The Crimson Tide then returned to Birmingham and defeated Ole Miss the week before their victory over Washington in the first meeting between the schools since the 1926 Rose Bowl. They followed this with wins over Tennessee, TCU, Mississippi State, LSU and Southern Miss on homecoming in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide then closed the season with wins against Auburn in what was Ralph Jordan's final game as the Tigers' head coach and Penn State in the Sugar Bowl that ended a seven-game losing streak in bowl games.


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