You have quite a bit to learn about the sport you try to follow. Schedules are made between several entities in modern College Football and it takes more than 1 program to be willing to play each other. You'll learn with a dozen more years of study at this pace.
Yes but again, ADs have no conversations with their coaches on who they want to play. ADs just dial random phone numbers until the find another AD to talk to and schedule games. It definitely isn’t because one AD spoke with a coach about teams they would be open/want to playing and the AD tried to make direct contact with another school in order to start the steps in order to get a game(s) scheduled. Teams just show up to random stadiums hoping another team is there to play.
that's exactly what I said, and that I'm not sure Texas would agree. Alabama has changed home and home to a home and neutral at a later date before, or it was changed to just one neutral site game.
Which one? I'm not a neutral site fan, but all of the Alabama neutral site games in the Saban Era were scheduled as one off games from jump - not a home and home series later switched to a home and neutral series.
The math was done in 2008, when Clemson was the To 10 team, favored, closer to home and got their butts kicked 34-10 by Alabama in the ATL! That was actually the start of the Saban-Alabama Dynasty. Clemson is as good or better now, but that was a lesson well learned by the Tigers in 2008!
Interesting! Did not know that. Was just being funny, because the timing was right! Actually, kudos to Clemson for having a home and neutral with LA Tech.
And the Citadel finished ranked #3 in the country too right. Syracuse gave Clemson a better game so that says something about Alabama right? Or do you have to take the games on their own?
I don't know, it's rattling around in my memories somewhere, of course that's a red flag now that I think about it.
Close!
Close, but the home / home series was never set. When they started talking about playing, Wisconsin wanted a home / home, but Alabama only wanted the neutral. So, it was a one off neutral set-up from Jump, not scheduled and changed. HOWEVER, like you said, it is awesome that they have set-up for the home / home in 2024-5! I will most definitely go to the game @ Wisconsin!
On the other side of the coin, Alabama and Michigan State were scheduled for a home / home in 2016 and 2017. That was flat our cancelled as a mutual decision. Alabama scheduled USC @ Arlington in 2016 and FSU @ Atlanta to replace it. I would have preferred the Michigan State home / home, but it wouldn't have mattered from a result point of view.
My only point is the friendly jousting with @Texas Jefe is that this is not "par for the course". Alabama sets up neutrals when they want them to be neutral and home / home when they want them as a one off. Only Michigan State was cancelled, and that was a mutual decision. Basically, 'Bama boggied that hole, but it is not "par for the course".
Before. During 2013-14 range IIRC, as it played a part in me giving up my season tickets (from afar). So, after the CapitalOne Blowout @ Orlando but before the Cotton Bowl blowout @ Arlington!
True, but I'd bet that the RRSO is about as close as it can get to exactly the same distance for a neutral site game. Google maps shows:Atlanta has been neutral for Alabama and the teams they have played there. With the exception of West Virginia from the Big Xii, the other opponents there have been ACC programs with easy drive access to Atlanta - which is an ACC and SEC town after all. Even WVU to ATL is an easy drive. There were plenty of Mountaineer fans there.
No two teams are ever exactly the same distance from a neutral spot, but Atlanta has been easy enough for all of the teams Alabama has played. Definitely, more neutral than all of those USC Rose Bowl Games (as an example). It's other teams like Georgia (Boise State) and Auburn (Washington) who play Western teams in Atlanta.
Alabama plays those type of games @ Arlington (as you know!
