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Alabama and Southern Mississippi to renew their series in 2019
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:10 am
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:10 am
This is according to FBSchedules.com
It's a $1.85 million guarantee for USM.
It's a $1.85 million guarantee for USM.
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Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:19 am to CapstoneGrad06
Wow, $1.85M?
I will say, they quit playing us in the mid 2000s because they wanted P5 teams to play home and homes. They have done a pretty good job making that happen since then.
2003 - Nebraska
2006 - NC State
2009 - Virginia
2010 - Kansas
2012 - Louisville
2015 - Mississippi State
2017 - Kentucky
TBA - BYU
I will say, they quit playing us in the mid 2000s because they wanted P5 teams to play home and homes. They have done a pretty good job making that happen since then.
2003 - Nebraska
2006 - NC State
2009 - Virginia
2010 - Kansas
2012 - Louisville
2015 - Mississippi State
2017 - Kentucky
TBA - BYU
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:21 am to CapstoneGrad06
Is this every year or what?
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:24 am to SummerOfGeorge
Played them every year from 1992-2005. They hadn't expanded their stadium at that point, so there was no way we were traveling to Hattiesburg. Of course, they did a lot of a major updates since then. And that's helped to get some larger programs to agree to home and home.
But I doubt Alabama ever will. Likely just to host them every few years.
But I doubt Alabama ever will. Likely just to host them every few years.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:25 am to _Hurricane_
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Is this every year or what?
Just for 2019. Last played them in 2014. And 1992-2005 prior to that.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:32 am to CapstoneGrad06
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They hadn't expanded their stadium at that point, so there was no way we were traveling to Hattiesburg
They can add another 20,000 to it and we still ain't ever traveling to Hattiesburg.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:35 am to SummerOfGeorge
Oh, I know. But at the time they were trying to call our bluff with nothing to stand on. Of course Mal Moore wasn't bluffing. We were never going to play in Hattiesburg.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 8:40 am to CapstoneGrad06
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But at the time they were trying to call our bluff with nothing to stand on.
I don't think they actually thought they would convince us to go to Hattiesburg. I think it was more to show they would rather play Kansas and Virginia there than play at Alabama every year. They were pretty full of themselves at that point, too (as evident by firing Bower).
Posted on 9/21/16 at 11:19 am to SummerOfGeorge
Ughhh.......no more Southern Miss please
Posted on 9/21/16 at 11:32 am to 14&Counting
I like playing Southern Miss, a bit of a regional rival. I would rather play them every year, then a FCS school.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 12:36 pm to remaster916
We pay a lot for guarantee games. Some schools only pay like $600k or less.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 12:51 pm to 14&Counting
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Ughhh.......no more Southern Miss please
I agree. I hate playing those guys. Seems like half of their roster is made up of Alabama kids who are bitter.
Posted on 9/21/16 at 7:16 pm to CapstoneGrad06
My first in person Bama game was in 1990 watching Stallings first team lose to them 27-24. Brett Favre was their quarterback.
This post was edited on 9/21/16 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 9/21/16 at 7:37 pm to sunseeker
The last game I saw at Legion Field was a Dubose Bama squad lose to Southern Miss 21-0
Posted on 9/22/16 at 9:08 am to 14&Counting
Sunseeker that was my first ever Bama game too. It sucked. I was 11. Sumbitch Favre.
Posted on 9/22/16 at 9:34 am to Ol'DirtyCam
Tip of the cap to Southern, those are some mean sumbitches that played us tough regularly and got the occasional upset. They are dangerous and we gain nothing from playing them except not having to hear people bitch about another FCS opponent. If we win, we were supposed to. If we lose, huge feather in their cap.
Posted on 9/22/16 at 10:12 pm to CapstoneGrad06
This post was edited on 11/8/20 at 1:24 pm
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