The Tuscaloosa News reported late Saturday that Alabama is in talks regarding future home-and-home football series with Notre Dame and Texas.
A home-and-home would represent the Crimson Tide’s eighth and ninth games against the Fighting Irish, with five of the prior seven going to Notre Dame. Just one of those games has taken place in the last 30-plus years, though, a 42-14 clobbering of the Irish by Alabama in the 2012-13 BCS National Championship contest.
The report notes, through our site, Notre Dame’s future marquee opponents, including Vanderbilt, Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas A&M.
Texas has won seven of the nine prior matchups with Alabama (including a tie), with the only tilt between the two in the last 35-plus years being the Tide’s 37-21 defeat of Texas in the 2009-10 BCS National Championship. The Longhorns host USC next season, embark on a home-and-home with LSU in 2019 and 2020, then venture into the Big Ten for home-and-homes with Ohio State (2022, 2023) and Michigan (2024, 2027).
Alabama Director of Athletics offered a somewhat cryptic response to the report.
“I’ll say that we are exploring some home-and-homes,” Byrne said.
More on this story as it becomes available.
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Hopefully the ADs can get these series inked. True college football fans actually like to see competitive games like these in the conconf schedule instead of the cupcakes. It’s just one game per season, but better than 3 or 4 cupcake games that won’t be competitive. You have to give the Texas program credit, they have scheduled very few non power 5 games over the past decade. Sure, they have taken some lumps in doing so, but better viewing for the college football fans.
Alabama, as usual, will want one game (each) in Tuscaloosa, and one game "neutral", like Atlanta or Orlando.
your an idiot looking for attention
Neither Notre Dame nor Texas will do that.
Bill,
Just because these games may take place does not mean they will be competitive, I watched Texas vs Maryland last year, that was not competitive on Texas behave. Bama has been putting on a clinic in football the last 10 years & anyone that dares to play them either gets their ars whooped or the great teams like Georgia, Auburn, Clemson & even The Ohio State can either keep it close or beat them. Ole MIss & Texas A&M have had a couple of wins against them as well but normally Bama is only losing around one game a year.
As for calling teams cupcakes & not being competitive, do you not remember that FCS team that went into Ann Arbor & won 34-32? You don't think that was competitive? They're many FCS or G5 teams that play P5 & keep it close & sometimes actually win. I think you are more talking about watching P5 vs P5 then wanting to see P5 teams plays FCS & G5, which is fine but please don't call them not competitive.
Lost in Va,
Please give me an example of Bama wanting to play a game in Tuscaloosa & asking the other team to play in ATL or Orlando?
Hopefully these games will happen but both sides will have to come to some agreement. Also this may shut up the people that bash Bama for their OOC scheduling & make them happy that it is a home n home but I am sure they will find something to complain about never the less.
I hope Notre Dame insist on playing Alabama in South Bend in November and I hope it snows for several reasons
1. The Irish will probably need every advantage they can get
2. It would be interesting to see a southern team play in the elements which is why it would be great if every few years the CFP would have the championship game in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo.
This is counter to what Brian Kelly stated to the media before their latest bowl game. He said he thought the Irish's schedule strength had been overly strong,for the last number of years, as well as already scheduled future games, which has increased probability of a loss,reducing opportunities to make the FBS playoff each year,. In effect he desired a decrease in the ND schedule strength. At any rate, 2020-21 are the first two ND seasons with openings. And those schedules are plenty strong already. Not sure about an ND-Alabama regular season game anytime soon.
Michigan State-Alabama 2016-2017. This was supposed to be a home and home but Alabama wanted to change it to a home game in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site game. Michigan State would not do that so the series was cancelled.