The University of Alabama is the home of one of the most winning and successful football teams in the United States of America. Nicknamed the Crimson Tide, they have won twenty-two Southeastern Conference Titles and fourteen national championships. The football team has been invited to fifty-eight bowl games and has won thirty-two of them! The most recent bowl games that the team has played in are the Orange Bowl, the Independence Bowl, the Music City Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Capital One Bowl, and the BCS National Championship. The football program has been in place since 1892 and since has had thirty-one seasons in which they won all ten games. Currently the home football games are played at Bryant-Denny Stadium, which was originally opened in 1929. It can hold around 102,000 people since there have been some major additions to the original stadium. A notable of the Alabama football team was Paul "Bear" Bryant, who led the team to six national titles. Nick Saban is the coach at the present and in 2011 the Crimson Tide finished second in the nation during the regular season. The very first Heisman trophy winner, Mark Ingram, was awarded in 2009. The major rivalry of this football team is Auburn University, which is also located in the state. These two teams put up a great fight to become champions of their state and have been doing so since 1893. Other rivalries have formed between Alabama and the University of Tennessee and the LSU Tigers. The Alabama Crimson Tide has been Tennessee forty - eight times and LSU forty-six times. Alabama has had quite a few of their players go pro in the National Football League and some of them are: Josh Chapman, Darius Hanks, Andre Smith, Brad Smelley, Trent Richardson, Greg McElroy, Julio Jones, and Courtney Upshaw. The Bama Crimson Tide football team is by far one of the best in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference. When attending the football games at The University of Alabama, you will definitely see girls wearing crimson and white and also hounds tooth print! Judith March makes some great dresses with hounds tooth print incorporated into the design! Check out Judith March game day dresses on SidelineSweetie.com!

Greek Life Organizations at Alabama date back to the 1840's when two gentlemen from Yale started the first fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Following Delta Kappa Epsilon was Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, and Phi Delta Theta. At the beginning of the 20th century in 1903, the women started the Kappa Delta and Alpha Delta Pi sororities. To date there are twenty-nine fraternities and twenty-three sororities on campus. In addition there is a secret coalition of sororities and fraternities called "The Machine." "The Machine" has been around since 1914 and has been influencing the decisions of who gets elected to the Student Government, Homecoming, and even State Government positions. Not only will you find your typical fraternities and sororities on campus, but you will also find a number of honor societies. Some of these are the Anderson Society, the Mortar Board, the Order of Omega, and the Golden Key International Honour Society. Getting involved in a student organization on campus should not be extremely difficult with all the options offered to students.

The schools and colleges located on campus are: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Social Work, the Culverhouse College of commerce and Business Administration, the Capstone College of Nursing, the College of Communication and Information Sciences, the School of Law, the College of Community Health Sciences, the College of Human Environmental Sciences, the College of Continuing Studies, the Honors College, the College of Education, the Graduate School, and the College of Engineering. The most recently added college was the Honors College. The Honors College does not give out degrees but special honors classes are offered to its students. Currently there are close to 32,000 students that attend the school, and to those students is access to six libraries. The libraries on campus are the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, the Angelo Bruno Business Library, the Eric and Sarah Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering, McLure Education Library, the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, and the Library Annex. Other independent libraries on campus are the Bounds Law Library, the Health Sciences Library, the Map Library, the William E. Winter Reading Room, and the School of Social Work Reading Room. If you go to Alabama, there is no reason why or any excuse as to not being able to find a place to study! With facilities like these, students are given all the resources and space needed to adequately complete their studies.

Because of the number of students that live on campus, efforts are being made to expand housing. There are currently eighteen housing areas on campus and 30% of undergrads use these dormitories, suites, and apartment style living spaces. Most of the housing on campus is reserved for incoming freshman, although space for upperclassmen is granted when available. One of the first residences halls, Franklin Hall, still remains on campus and is referred to as the Mound on the Quad. Being one of the oldest colleges in the South, The University of Alabama's campus holds a ton of history on its grounds.

The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa. It started out as a seven building campus in the middle of nowhere. Now spanning out across 1,970 acres, Bama includes nearly three hundred buildings on campus! This university got its start in 1831 although the beginning was very rocky. At first, students were not allowed to drink, swear, leave campus unauthorized, or play a musical instrument for longer than one hour at a time. Crazy, huh? The reason for this was because there were major issues on campus with gun fights and riots! The President of The University of Alabama did all he could to keep the students under control. Fast forward to the present day and you will find a university that upholds honor and strong academic values. The school survived being set on fire by the Union Army during the Civil War and most recently the campus was spared from the damaging winds of a tornado that could have been devastating! Through it all the Alabama Crimson Tide rolls on! Rollllll Tide!!