re: Will Alabama continue to fight against the 9 game schedule?

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Saban was on record saying he didn’t want to play LSU, Auburn, and Tennessee every year. Wondering if now that he’s gone if Alabama will still not want a hard schedule and hold up what’s best for the league over it.

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We'll have a 9 game schedule.

But Bama won't play LSU every year.

Not because of "fear" or anything, but because they don't have the history with LSU that they do with other SEC teams and LSU has other teams (including the newcomers) that have a big interest in playing LSU more regularly more than Bama does (Texas, A&M, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and OU all have more interest than Bama).

Bama has 88 games against LSU. They have 107 vs MSU who I think will be their 3rd team to go along with Auburn and Tennessee.

Heck, they have 73 against UGA and we've been in different divisions for 30 years. 83 vs Vandy.

Pre SEC expansion, Bama's most frequent opponents were Tennessee, Auburn, MSU, Vandy and UGA.