Two losses in SEC play — Tennessee 52-49 (Jalin Hyatt, Hendon Hooker) and LSU 32-31 OT. The Process had not lost two SEC regular-season games in the same year since 2007.
2022 — The Recalibration
Alabama went 11-2 and missed the CFP for only the second time in the era — the season that asked whether the Process had peaked.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Bryce YoungQB3,328 passing yards
- Jahmyr GibbsRB926 rushing yards
- Jase McClellanRB655 rushing yards
- Jalen MilroeQB265 rushing yards
- Jermaine BurtonWR677 receiving yards
- Ja'Corey BrooksWR674 receiving yards
- Cameron LatuTE377 receiving yards
- DeMarcco HellamsDB95 tackles
- Henry To'o To'oLB89 tackles
- Brian BranchDB79 tackles
- Will Anderson Jr.LB10 sacks
- Dallas TurnerLB4 sacks
- Byron YoungDL3.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2022.
Sugar Bowl win over Kansas State 45-20. Bryce Young's final Alabama game. The roster's NFL-draft flight was already underway.
NIL + transfer portal reshaped the recruiting landscape. Alabama's 2022 class was still top-2; the ground rules had shifted. The Process's structural edge narrowed.
"The process does not flinch at rankings."
2022 is the chapter where the Process's universality was tested. Two SEC losses in a year is a crisis in most Alabama memories; in 2022 it was only a two-loss season. The CFP miss was the second in four years; the recalibration question became the chapter's subject. The chapter closes the question with 'not yet' — the 2023 team's SEC title and CFP return was the answer to 2022.