Alabama Football: The 16-week college football regular season begins today.
Alabama football fans can rejoice with the return of college football tonight. It begins not with an FBS game, but it is football as Central Arkansas takes on Austin Peay at 8:00 PM CST on ESPN. It somehow seems appropriate the season’s first game is in the state of Alabama, at Montgomery’s Cramton Bowl.
UAB and South Alabama join the parade on Thursday, Sept. 3. UAB hosts Central Arkansas and USA travels to Southern Mississippi.
There are other interesting games in September, while Alabama football fans wait for the Crimson Tide to open away at Missouri. BYU and Navy will highlight the season’s week one. Week two opens with UAB at Miami on Thursday, Sept. 10. A slew of games follows on Sept. 12.
Also in week two are Clemson at Wake Forest; Duke at Notre Dame; Georgia Tech at Florida State; SMU at TCU and Syracuse at North Carolina. For fans interested in a one-sided beatdown, there is Missouri State at Oklahoma.
Week three, and the final week before Alabama football signals the real start of the football season, has Houston at Memphis; Boston College at Duke; Maimi at Louisville; Syracuse at Pittsburgh and Virginia at Virginia Tech. Alabama football fans wanting to assess Clemson’s depth can follow the Tigers against The Citadel. Dabo’s backups should see plenty of action.
Week four should be a go for the SEC, providing weeks zero through four, are not significantly quarantine or cancellation disrupted.
An interesting take on the season comes from Bill Bender, writing for The Sporting News. Bender projected the best game each week during the 2020 season. In the 12 weeks of the season for the SEC and Alabama football, Bender states the Alabama Crimson Tide will have the nation’s premier game four times. Those four games are Georgia at Alabama; Alabama at Tennessee; Alabama at LSU and Auburn at Alabama.
Other weekly premier games selected by Bender are Mississippi State at LSU on Sept. 26; Auburn at Georgia on Oct. 3 and Florida at Tennessee on Dec. 5. Out of the SEC, weekly, premier games chosen by Bender include Texas vs. Oklahoma on Oct. 10; Clemson at Notre Dame on Nov. 7 and Oklahoma State at Oklahoma on Nov. 21.
Alabama football fans want the one word to describe the season to be ‘winning.’
Alabama football fans are rightly stating the Crimson Tide has one of the toughest schedules in the nation. It is certainly tougher than the schedules of Clemson and Notre Dame.