🏈 Alabama and Southern California Set for 2016 Cowboys Classic

[BAMANEWSBOT]

The University of Alabama football team will open the 2016 season in the Cowboys Classic against Southern California at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The game is scheduled for Saturday, September 3, with information on ticket sales as well as television coverage and kickoff time to be determined at a later date.

The eighth annual Cowboys Classic will be the eighth meeting between these storied programs, and the first regular season match-up since the 1970s when they split four epic battles during the 1970, 1971, 1977 and 1978 seasons. This came at a time in college football history when both universities were fighting for the national title on an annual basis, including a shared title in 1978 - when the only loss on Alabama's 11-1 record was a 24-14 defeat at the hands of a Trojans team that posted a 12-1 record and won the Rose Bowl. The two schools also squared off in the 1985 Aloha Bowl, with the Crimson Tide winning that contest 24-3. Alabama leads the all-time series 5-2.

Under head coach Nick Saban, the Crimson Tide has played in five previous neutral site regular season games and has two more on the schedule over the next two years. Alabama has a 4-1 mark in these games under Saban, which includes four straight wins. The Tide played Florida State in Jacksonville in 2007 as well as Clemson (2008) and Virginia Tech (2009 and 2013) in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff in Atlanta. UA played in the 2012 Cowboys Classic and defeated Michigan in front of 90,413 fans. Alabama will open the 2014 season in Atlanta with a matchup against West Virginia in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff and play Wisconsin on September 5, 2015, in Arlington.

The game will mark the eighth contest in the Cowboys Classic series with ABC/ESPN. Each matchup has featured nationally ranked teams with Brigham Young University upsetting the University of Oklahoma 14-13 in inaugural game in 2009, TCU knocking off Oregon State 30-21 in 2010, LSU defeating Oregon 40-27 in 2011, Alabama downing Michigan 41-14 in 2012 and LSU's 37-27 victory over TCU in 2013.

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[planomateo]

Awesome!

 

[bama alum]

Two storied programs with a bit of put up or shut up...This will be great!

 

[BamaFan334]

Oh heck yeah. What an awesome matchup and the envrionment will be crazy. Stanford still isn't happy though.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Awesome! Can't wait to kick some Trojan butt.

 

[riz]

LAINE KIFFKINS!

 

[TerryP]

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Notre Dame? Check
SC? Check
Ohio State....

 

[slee]

Notre Dame? Check
SC? Check
Ohio State....

I would add Oklahoma to that list we need to beat them. They've got the last three against us we need to correct.

 

[planomateo]

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Alabama has turned Bryant-Denny into a showplace with two well-done expansions since 2006, but how entertaining is it for the fans who buy the tickets and budget an entire day for the experience to watch their favorite team flex its muscles against Chattanooga?

Wouldn't it be nice to see USC or Wisconsin or some other Power 5 team with a pulse run out of the tunnel in Tuscaloosa? Wouldn't it be a treat for Alabama fans to take a road trip to LA or Madison or some other classic location as part of an old-school home-and-home?

At the SEC spring meeting in Destin, Nick Saban and Bill Battle both complained about the difficulty of lining up non-conference opponents, regardless of location, but other SEC schools have been able to put together quality home-and-home deals in recent months.

Georgia's going to play Notre Dame in Athens and South Bend. LSU will meet UCLA in Tiger Stadium and the Rose Bowl. Outside the SEC, Michigan and Oklahoma recently announced a two-game series in Ann Arbor and Norman.

Why can't Alabama do the same?

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[TerryP]

Repeating myself? Perhaps. Standing with a minority? Again, perhaps. Am I going to voice my opinion? Always. :devil:

"Wouldn't it be nice to see USC or Wisconsin or some other Power 5 team with a pulse run out of the tunnel in Tuscaloosa? Wouldn't it be a treat for Alabama fans to take a road trip to LA or Madison or some other classic location as part of an old-school home-and-home?"

A trip to Madison. No, that wouldn't be a treat and it's far from what I'd call a classic location. A road trip to LA? Again, not a treat.

Seeing these games is a treat because it's about the two teams playing each other. Seeing a team run out of a tunnel? I realize he's trying to paint a picture, but please. I want the game itself—not the drummed up pageantry.

Here's where my biggest contention lies.

Georgia's going to play Notre Dame in Athens and South Bend. — Georgia just canceled a series they had scheduled with Oregon. Georgia has scheduled a series with Notre Dame, but the chances of it happening are 50/50 at best.

LSU will meet UCLA in Tiger Stadium and the Rose Bowl. — LSU just paid to canceled a series they had scheduled with NC State. LSU has scheduled a series with UCLA, but the chances of it happening? UCLA just fell victim to Nevada canceling their series and they replaced them with BYU. This is a series that's scheduled eight years from now, btw.

Outside the SEC, Michigan and Oklahoma recently announced a two-game series in Ann Arbor and Norman.— (In 2025-2026) — Ironic, really, that Notre Dame cancels its series with Michigan and now Georgia is being lauded for scheduling games. Oklahoma cancels their series with Arizona State, a team the earlier lauded LSU just pushed back several years (likely to cancel down the road.)

If I were to lay odds I'd put the chances of these games happening along these lines—one of the three may happen. And, the chances of that one no better than 50-50 because I think Notre Dame is going to have to rethink its position on being a partial member of a Big5 conference.

I see a lot of style, pageantry, and headlines. No substance of note.

 

[planomateo]

Gotta admit, 2016 Week 1 schedule looks pretty good....except Ohio State.

It would be more interesting if LSU vs Wisconsin was in Houston that year. 4 big OOC games in the state of Texas on the same day. If the scheduling works out (which I doubt it will), could you imagine making all 3 of those games in the same day - Kyle Field, DKR Stadium, then Cowboys Stadium?

 

[252BAMA]

Repeating myself? Perhaps. Standing with a minority? Again, perhaps. Am I going to voice my opinion? Always. :devil:

"Wouldn't it be nice to see USC or Wisconsin or some other Power 5 team with a pulse run out of the tunnel in Tuscaloosa? Wouldn't it be a treat for Alabama fans to take a road trip to LA or Madison or some other classic location as part of an old-school home-and-home?"

A trip to Madison. No, that wouldn't be a treat and it's far from what I'd call a classic location. A road trip to LA? Again, not a treat.

Seeing these games is a treat because it's about the two teams playing each other. Seeing a team run out of a tunnel? I realize he's trying to paint a picture, but please. I want the game itself—not the drummed up pageantry.

Here's where my biggest contention lies.

Georgia's going to play Notre Dame in Athens and South Bend. — Georgia just canceled a series they had scheduled with Oregon. Georgia has scheduled a series with Notre Dame, but the chances of it happening are 50/50 at best.
LSU will meet UCLA in Tiger Stadium and the Rose Bowl. — LSU just paid to canceled a series they had scheduled with NC State. LSU has scheduled a series with UCLA, but the chances of it happening? UCLA just fell victim to Nevada canceling their series and they replaced them with BYU. This is a series that's scheduled eight years from now, btw.
Outside the SEC, Michigan and Oklahoma recently announced a two-game series in Ann Arbor and Norman.— (In 2025-2026) — Ironic, really, that Notre Dame cancels its series with Michigan and now Georgia is being lauded for scheduling games. Oklahoma cancels their series with Arizona State, a team the earlier lauded LSU just pushed back several years (likely to cancel down the road.)

If I were to lay odds I'd put the chances of these games happening along these lines—one of the three may happen. And, the chances of that one no better than 50-50 because I think Notre Dame is going to have to rethink its position on being a partial member of a Big5 conference.

I see a lot of style, pageantry, and headlines. No substance of note.

Odds of the UGA-ND thingy happening are slim to none. ND already has a conflicting series scheduled with Texas then, and I have seen no sign of that having been resolved.

http://www.fbschedules.com/2014/06/notre-dame-wants-to-postpone-2019-20-texas-games/