Posted on 07/29/2019 4:27:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Crimson Tide play Duke (at a neutral site) and host New Mexico State, Southern Mississippi and Western Carolina for their four non-conference games this season. That has led to criticism that they are playing too soft a schedule.
During an appearance Friday on “Golic and Wingo,” Saban shared his side. The Crimson Tide coach says he has long advocated for Power 5 teams to only play each other. He also says the reason Alabama struggles to schedule strong non-conference opponents is because teams don’t want to play the Crimson Tide. Furthermore, he says Alabama ends up playing neutral site games because that’s the only way some teams will agree to face the Crimson Tide.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
And my UW Huskies played #2 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl and beat the snot out of them. Plus they had already beat Michigan at Michigan earlier in the year.
If Bobby Bowden wasn’t so selfish they would have been awarded the College Football Coaches National Championship, but he was pissed that his ‘Noles were on probation and cast his vote for his own team.
Announced today: https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2019/07/alabama-adds-home-and-home-with-big-ten-school.html
“The Crimson Tide will face Wisconsin in 2024 and 2025 to add to the list. Alabama will head to Madison in 2024 with the Badgers making the trip to Tuscaloosa in 2025.”
SNIP
“Alabama now has home-and-home series scheduled with Texas, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Notre Dame and Oklahoma. There’s also a 2-for-1 series set for South Florida from 2023-2026.”
Future Alabama non-conference opponents
2019: Duke (Atlanta)
2020: USC (Arlington)
2021: Miami (Atlanta)
2022: at Texas
2023: Texas, at USF, WKU
2024: USF, at Wisconsin
2025: Wisconsin
2026: at WVU, USF
2027: WVU
2028: at Notre Dame
2029: Notre Dame
2032: at Oklahoma
2033: Oklahoma
The Best opening game will be Oregon Ducks vs. Auburn Tigers Aug 31, 2019 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. GO DUCKS!
Agree. Houston/Oklahoma on Sunday could be interesting for a half...
Story about Bama’s future non-conference opponents out just a little while ago:
Future Alabama non-conference opponents
2019: Duke (Atlanta)
2020: USC (Arlington)
2021: Miami (Atlanta)
2022: at Texas
2023: Texas, at USF, WKU
2024: USF, at Wisconsin
2025: Wisconsin
2026: at WVU, USF
2027: WVU
2028: at Notre Dame
2029: Notre Dame
2032: at Oklahoma
2033: Oklahoma
https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2019/07/alabama-adds-home-and-home-with-big-ten-school.html
it’s not unusual They often play on saturday nights and the game is not in the news till Monday. I guess Hawaii is the same.
Lol! Might as well do some light reading!
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