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Alabama and Georgia Tech schedule home and home
"Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave."

So goes the line in the Alabama fight song.

WSFA out of Montgomery reports:

Bama and GT have scheduled a series although it's about 10 years out.

A couple of notes about this:

1. It's becoming more and more common for SEC and ACC schools to schedule each other out of conference. There's history to this match-up, but there are plenty of others who have rarely ever met. I think ESPN is pulling the strings on that to a significant degree. They own both leagues and automatically own the content every time the two schedule a game against each other.

2. Looking at Alabama's future schedules, and the link above contains the P5 games that Bama has coming up in the next 12 years or so, I think 10 Power games is about to become a reality pretty soon.

We've got 10 scheduled in 2025 and 2026. The GT series fills a gap where no P5 had been(2030 and 2031). So I think that's the direction we're moving. Hoping to see it sooner than later, but it will depend.

In 2024, we're going to need someone who can provide a home game as we're on the road to Wisconsin. Problem is, we also need a home game in 2023 because that's the year we're going to South Florida. We're actually playing USF in both of those seasons and that's not a bad opponent at all even though we don't technically get credit for a P5 in that match-up.

We've got Texas in 2022 and 2023 so it may be possible to line up another P5 for a 2 year stretch in there somewhere, but not sure.
01-16-2020 11:15 AM
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RE: Alabama and Georgia Tech schedule home and home
Makes a lot of sense

The South is CFB Mecca so SEC teams playing FSU, GT, Clemson, VT heck even Miami and UNC is ratings gold for the networks
01-16-2020 12:45 PM
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RE: Alabama and Georgia Tech schedule home and home
GT to the SEC confirmed.

Seriously though, I'm glad Alabama is moving towards home and homes and even 10 P5 games. Other schools have been doing this but Alabama following along is still a big deal.
01-16-2020 04:10 PM
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