re: Alabama's Home Schedule

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The boring home game schedule doesn’t help

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It’s the direct cause of students leaving early. Games against New Mexico State belong on the SEC Network and they’d rather have a competitive night game on over a 62-10 beat down. In September, that equals an unbearable afternoon slot.

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Do I care what your series record is with no context? No. Florida has been very up and down.

In the last 7 years you have played UGA and Florida in the regular season twice total.

LSU played both just last season.

Also I’m sure you like to pump up the “grind of an sec season” week in week out and don’t take into account what the effect of playing a top flight east team has on injuries and wear and tear. You only play a tough east opponent 2 years out of 12 and may catch them on a down swing. Whereas Tennessee is in a permanent down swing.

Its a significant advantage. Does it change much of what has happened over the past decade in terms of the west representative? Probably not but there’s no way to prove.

If you want a tougher schedule though there’s FAR simpler solutions than adding sec games

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You guys like to toss the Florida game out there as if it's a big deal. It isn't. We've beaten the shite out of Florida every time we've played them since 2008 - and almost all of those Florida teams have been their better teams. The only "good" Florida team we missed was the 2012 version. Every single time Florida has been to Atlanta in the last decade they've played us - and they've lost (badly, I might add).

So, complain about Tennessee all you want as if playing Florida is some great tribulation from the big mean SEC office - but know that we've actually beaten Florida as bad or worse as we've beaten Tennessee the last 10 years.

Alabama has utterly dominated everyone in this league outside of Auburn and the 2 year Ole Miss swing over the last 5 years. East, West, home, road, Atlanta, it doesn't matter. The fact that you guys still like to act as if playing a 9-4 Florida team vs a 6-7 Tennessee team is the linchpin to it all is just insanity.

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This has to be a frustrating year for the season ticket holder. You want the students/fans to stay until the end of the game? You might want to schedule some decent opponents at home.

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It has been frustrating the last decade. We get 3 rent a wins every year and then the big non conference game we could have had is done so at boring destinations like Atlanta or Dallas. Sprinkle in your meh games like Ole Miss, Arkansas, Vandy, Miss St, Kentucky, etc and all you are left with is one or two home games a year worth attending.

I get sick and tired of Saban whining about fans not staying for rent a wins. He should be happy anyone would buy tickets at all for such a joke of a game. And I don't buy for a second that we can't find any decent teams willing to play us. Saban whines about how he is the only coach proposing all Power 5 games, and yet he lets teams like Georgia and Florida lead by example in scheduling 2 P5 non conference games a year. He canceled the home and home with Michigan St because he sees the risk of a true road game as unnecessary. Thank goodness we started scheduling future home and homes again, but there are still two more shitty trips to Dallas and ATL before they finally happen. The fans forced that to finally change, not Saban.

I'd rather play a competitive schedule and potentially not go to the playoffs some years than play the shite schedule we play and coast to the playoffs without much drama. To be such a dynasty we have been more timid than any past dynasty I can think of when it comes to our nonconference schedule. One true road game (Penn State) during the entire 2008-present dynasty. That's pathetic.

Throughout Alabama's dynasty we became the most corporate program in the nation. Every decision made was calculated purely in regards to the analytics of how to find the easiest path to the playoffs. The fans/customers became merely a sideshow. If we complained about the schedule Saban just yelled that we weren't grateful.

It has been a good run but I fear that the lack of focus on continuing to build a true and loyal fan/customer base may doom the program long term after Saban is gone. The next generation of ticket holders will be a spoiled and entitled fan base loyal only to winning, rather than a deep rooted passion for the program and university. You won't see packed stadiums like the dozens of games I attended under Mike Shula despite the hard times.

Complains about lack of difficulty with schedule.

Continues to want to play Tennessee.




Since 2008 Tennessee has the same amount of bowl wins as vandy. Since 2017 Tennessee has 3 wins vs power 5 schools.

But yes continue to complain about schedules

It should have been dropped long ago but certainly after the sec expanded. No reason it should be twelve years before returning a visit to a conference opponent.

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Alabama set the mark for the league in older days by playing the powerful Southern California Trojans and Tom Osborne's Nebraska Cornhuskers and Notre Dame home and home.

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What the...?

Just, NO.

I'll give you USC (Alabama, 70-71, LSU 79-84), but LSU had home-and-away series with Nebraska (LSU 75-76, Bama 77-78) and Notre Dame (LSU 70-71, Bama 76-80) before Alabama did.

Why are Alabama fans so consistently ignorant of conference history?

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Complains about lack of difficulty with schedule.

Continues to want to play Tennessee.




Since 2008 Tennessee has the same amount of bowl wins as vandy. Since 2017 Tennessee has 3 wins vs power 5 schools.

But yes continue to complain about schedules

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I'm fine with ending the permanent crossover games. But not because of schedule parity. Tennessee will be back. They kicked our asses for a decade prior to 2007. I think we should end the permanent games purely to provide fans with some variety. It's absolutely necessary to end it if you are going to expand to 14 teams and yet keep only 8 conference games.

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Tennessee will be back.

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No they won’t. They have no recruiting base and the last time they were nationally relevant before the current players were born. They can’t recover from that.

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It's absolutely necessary to end it if you are going to expand to 14 teams and yet keep only 8 conference games.

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Yep. We should not go 12 years in between going to Athens

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It should have been dropped long ago but certainly after the sec expanded. No reason it should be twelve years before returning a visit to a conference opponent.

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No, we should have gone to 9 conference games with expansion. Then it would still been a home and away every 5 years. That's enough.

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Alabama set the mark for the league in older days by playing the powerful Southern California Trojans and Tom Osborne's Nebraska Cornhuskers and Notre Dame home and home.

What the...?

Just, NO.

I'll give you USC (Alabama, 70-71, LSU 79-84), but LSU had home-and-away series with Nebraska (LSU 75-76, Bama 77-78) and Notre Dame (LSU 70-71, Bama 76-80) before Alabama did.

Why are Alabama fans so consistently ignorant of conference history?

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Alabama played USCw at USCw in 1938

Alabama has played Nebraska, USCw, Missouri and Washington in the same season (none in the bowl)

Bama fans are very aware of conference history...