If you're hoping to get your first look at the 2026 Alabama football team on Saturday for A-Day, the spring game for the Crimson Tide, you'll have to make your way to Tuscaloosa to watch the festivities from a seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium.
For the second year in a row, despite a return to a more traditional scrimmage experience for A-Day, Alabama's spring game won't be televised. Alabama beat reporter Charlie Potter confirmed that on X on Thursday:
A-Day won’t be televised. https://t.co/m1WuWOnRfp
— Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) April 9, 2026
As of now, no streaming plans have been announced by the University or Yea-Alabama, the school's NIL collective. And that's a shame, too, because no fanbase has shown more support for spring games than the Crimson Tide's, and it's a disservice to fans for there not to be a way to watch on TV or streaming.
Alabama's A-Day game won't be televised once again
A year ago, programs across the country were cancelling spring games or turning them into something radically different. The spring portal window was feared by all, and they didn't want under-the-radar players to be on full display and for rampant tampering to potentially pull a player at the end of spring practice.
But that portal window is no more, so things can go back to normal. But we're still a long way off from normal.
For the last decade and a half, Alabama fans could reliably watch the A-Day game, up until last season, on either TV or an ESPN stream. From the moment Nick Saban set foot on campus in 2007, there's been a lot of hype and support surrounding the Tide's spring game.
It was standing room only with droves of fans being turned away for Saban's first A-Day. That support isn't quite as rampant now, but there's still a lot of interest for fans. Not everyone can make the trip to Tuscaloosa on a Saturday in April, and those fans deserve the opportunity to get a glimpse of next year's team, too, even if it's just a scrimmage and vanilla play-calling on both sides of the ball to avoid any tipping of the hand.
That's especially true this year when Alabama has a genuine quarterback battle on its hands between Austin Mack and Keelon Russell.
But if you aren't in Tuscaloosa this Saturday, you'll have to rely on clips posted to social media and anyone you know who was in attendance to get the 4-1-1.