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Alabama will welcome East Carolina, Florida State, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M, Chattanooga and Auburn to Tuscaloosa next season
As for this season, Alabama will face Oklahoma on Friday, December 19 (7 p.m. CT, ABC/ESPN) in Norman, Oklahoma in the first round of the 12-team playoff. If the Crimson Tide wins that game, it will advance to the Rose Bowl to face No. 1 seed Indiana.
Alabama will host Georgia and Auburn during the 2026 season, while also traveling to Tennessee and LSU. Here is Alabama's complete 2026 schedule.
The Crimson Tide football program announced Tuesday, Dec. 2 it would move its 2026 meeting with the Bulls to 2032 and replace the game with one against Chattanooga. Alabama signed a three-game contract with South Florida on April 4, 2019. The Crimson Tide beat the Bulls in each of the first two meetings in 2023 and 2024.
The Tide will face Chattanooga in 2026 following a mutual agreement with the USF Bulls. Alabama has also scheduled a future matchup with Marshall.
The Crimson Tide, along with the rest of its conference peers, will have a nine-game SEC schedule next season.
The Sun Belt and Conference USA clash in the Salute to Veterans Bowl, with Troy taking on Jacksonville State in Montgomery.
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2026 SEC schedule release shows Alabama has a brutal five-week stretch that could dictate the future of the Crimson Tide
The Alabama Crimson Tide is focused on a rematch with the Oklahoma Sooners next weekend, aiming to go on a run and use the extra week off to get some much-needed pieces back in the lineup.