The Crimson Tide will be playing its first non-power conference game in 20 years.
and College Football Playoff ties created an unlikely sun-soaked getaway game for the Tide in Tampa.
The contract details, reviewed by AL.com, essentially amount to a home-and-home series with an added-on, discounted guarantee game — a normal practice of a major conference, or Power 5, program when it pays a non-power conference team to travel to the Power 5 team’s stadium. One clause in the contract states that “teams acknowledge the long-range nature of football schedule planning, and that the conference schedule rules, including the requirement to play minimum number of games each season ... the teams agree to discuss in good faith a future date for the game to be played.”
“It’s been our goal, now this was before conference realignment so that may have some impact on future, was we want to since we’re not going to play a neutral site game, can we get two quality opponents to be able to play in every season besides the SEC games,” Saban said this week, " ... and look it’s not easy to find people that will play you. And sometimes you have to give and take a little bit to try to get those games to where we have a quality home schedule.
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