🏈 Alabama has exclusive rights to Cowboys Stadium in 2019 or 2020

[planomateo]

Hell ya!

@bcracker

 

[PhillyGirl]

Rename it the Crimson Classic!

 

[sean]

Rename it the Crimson Classic!

if we keep winning the way we have, they should name it the BAMA BASH! (being as literal as possible)

 

[UAgrad93]

I have tickets for the Wisky game this Fall and the wife and I have already dialed in for the 2016 kickoff against USC. Looks like 2019&2020 will be on the calendar as well if the opponent is to my liking.

 

[planomateo]

I have tickets for the Wisky game this Fall and the wife and I have already dialed in for the 2016 kickoff against USC. Looks like 2019&2020 will be on the calendar as well if the opponent is to my liking.

Very cool!

Curious what tickets for these games are going to be going for closer to game day. I know the Wisconsin game is already way over priced. I can't imagine what USC is going to be like.

I know I'll be a both, the question is how much is it going to cost me

 

[bamaraider]

Recruiting in the Dallas-Ft Worth area is going to start getting big. Fans/alumni might start buying condos down there.

I got tickets to the UW game and I'm definitely going to the USC game next year.

 

[bcracker]

@planomateo Yes Sir! Maybe we should sell our firstborns and perhaps a kidney each and pool our resources to buy box!

 

[252BAMA]

I have tickets for the Wisky game this Fall and the wife and I have already dialed in for the 2016 kickoff against USC. Looks like 2019&2020 will be on the calendar as well if the opponent is to my liking.

Which opponents are to your liking?

 

[TerryP]

Which opponents are to your liking?

You have to figure they'll come from west of the Mississippi.

 

[252BAMA]

You have to figure they'll come from west of the Mississippi.

Or North of the Mason-Dixon Line. They just can't be Big 12 teams because obviously Bama will have the TV rights, therefore the Big 12 TV contract would not allow one of their teams to be the opponent.

Notre Dame learned that the hard way at the outset of their 'Shamrock Series'. As you may know those are nothing more than off site home games whereby ND controls all of the tickets and NBC has the TV rights. They booked the Alamodome in San Antonio in 2009 thinking they could go in there and schedule Texas or aTm or any one of the Big 12 teams. Wound up playing Washington State. :eyeroll:

They made the same mistake at the same time in SEC territory. They booked the Citrus Bowl in Orlando for 2010 and 2011 thinking they could come in there and play Bama and/or Florida. They booked the Superdome in New Orleans in 2012 thinking they could play Bama or LSU. SEC TV contract would not allow that to happen in either case.

They got out of the Orlando booking because the Citrus Bowl did not make all of the stadium upgrades required in their contract. They had Baylor scheduled in New Orleans for 2012 but I suppose they bought out of both contracts (game and stadium) because they played Miami in Chicago that year.

 

[UAgrad93]

@252BAMA, I don't care to see us bitch slap Michigan, Michigan State, or Notre Dame again. A rematch with Ohio State in '19 or '20 would be nice. A Pac 12 opponent like Stanford would intrigue me.

 

[TerryP]

A rematch with Ohio State in '19 or '20 would be nice.

What happens if between now and then Bama runs into them in the playoffs? As I see it that makes it that less likely the two meet.

I'm still wondering what's on the slate for ATL to open 2018. The "front runners" are said to be Clemson and Boston College. I like the publicity aspect a game like BC would give to the academic side of UA. There's a lot there to point out.

 

[UAgrad93]

@TerryP, you are right about Ohio State. I imagine a rematch with them in the playoffs between now and '19 or '20 would dmake a season opener out of the question.
A game with BC would be intriguing simply because you would have a school from the Northeast coming down for an opener in ATL. It would be the first time we had played them since '85, right?

 

[TerryP]

It would be the first time we had played them since '85, right?

It was Perkins, home and home where Bama lost both. It wasn't '85 though. That leaves us with '83 and '84.

 

[BamaFan334]

I think Baylor is a flash in the pan team that will be a Top 25 team by this point in 2018, but not the top team they think they are right now.

I would like to see us play a UCLA, Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, or someone like that. We'll see Ohio State again in the playoffs. UCLA has been recruiting well, so I'd like to slap them. Been wanting to play Oregon for a while, even though they may drop off a hair the next year or so.

 

[252BAMA]

Correction on my post above concerning the ND 'Shamrock Series'. The 2011 booking was in Arlington. ND had Arizona State scheduled for that one but as in 2012 they must have bought out of both contracts because they played Maryland in Landover. Which means the ACC TV contract has no such restrictions and proves what ND intended to do in the other locations. Might be why they aligned themselves with the ACC.

 

[UAgrad93]

'84 with BC, all the more reason to play them. Getting a shot at "Bigmouth Bob" after our letdown in the Sugar a couple of years ago would be refreshing.

 

[TerryP]

It was announced this week that Auburn and Oregon will open their season in Dallas in 2019. Now, assuming they don't have two games that weekend in Dallas (like they've done in ATL) I guess we can assume Bama will be in Dallas in 2020.

 

[252BAMA]

It was announced this week that Auburn and Oregon will open their season in Dallas in 2019. Now, assuming they don't have two games that weekend in Dallas (like they've done in ATL) I guess we can assume Bama will be in Dallas in 2020.

I was hoping Bama-Oregon. Suppose that's off the board now.

 

[TerryP]

I was hoping Bama-Oregon. Suppose that's off the board now.

I certainly would assume so.

I ran across a blurb in the last day or two that mentioned Oregon is going to get 3.5 million for their appearance in Dallas in 2019. I don't know if the same applies to Auburn (didn't bother reading further) but still...that's what, 2.5 million less than what Bama is contracted to receive (at minimum?)