Alabama football never found consistency in Kalen DeBoer’s first season in charge. It wasn’t the top-level opponents that ruined the Crimson Tide’s College Football Playoff chances, instead it was teams that shouldn’t have had a chance against UA on paper.

During an exclusive interview with AL.com’s Beat Everyone podcast, DeBoer said Alabama was working to improve in those positions for the 2025 season.

“What we always are going to do is look at those things year-to-year and now we have experiences that we’ve been through as a team,” DeBoer said. “And again, that’s where the continuity is key, because we all know what it was that we went through and, so you’re just trying to do everything you can.”

The most obvious example came after the Crimson Tide beat Georgia early in the year. UA took over the No. 1 spot in the nation following the dramatic win, but then lost to Vanderbilt a week later.

The Tide had two losses later in the year, dropping a game to Tennessee, but was flying high after crushing LSU and Mercer, and would have had the CFP if it had simply won out. Instead, DeBoer and company went to Oklahoma and lost to a Sooner team that needed the win to obtain bowl eligibility at six victories, and lost that bowl to Navy.

After missing the playoff, Alabama faced another letdown. The Crimson Tide lost the ReliaQuest Bowl to a Michigan team missing most of its starters.

“There was a win and a loss afterward,” DeBoer said of the season’s trend. “I think it was different reasons for different losses. You can’t have excuses because nobody cares. It doesn’t matter.”

DeBoer and Alabama’s other coaches have focused on the consistency issue throughout the offseason. Defensive coordinator Kane Wommack said after the 2024 campaign that the Crimson Tide handled success poorly during the season.

UA’s head coach shared how he and his staff are going about fixing the problem.

“Creating adversity within a workout,” DeBoer said. “Creating adversity throughout practices, situational things that you’re gonna throw at the guys. And I think that’s the biggest thing, is we have to be great in the critical moments… We lost three games by one score or less– five, six and seven points. So it isn’t about one play, but it’s about those moments.”

Alabama will begin preseason camp in early August. The Crimson Tide will open DeBoer’s second season with an Aug. 30 trip to play Florida State in Tallahassee.