After falling just shy of reaching the College Football Playoff, Alabama is officially headed into the offseason.
Kalen DeBoer's first year in Tuscaloosa was nowhere close to a disaster. However, a couple of bad road losses—at Vanderbilt and Oklahoma—plus a loss to rival Tennessee kept the Crimson Tide out of the CFP as the program began the post-Nick Saban era.
Bama ended the campaign with a 9-4 record, closing the season in the ReliaQuest Bowl with a 19-13 loss to Michigan.
And now, the road to the Playoff restarts.
Though the Tide have to replace a good number of contributors, there is another new wave of talent on the way.