2008 Football Schedule

Most people have been wondering when (or if) Alabama will finally schedule the neutral site game with Clemson in Atlanta. Saban has been wanting to recruit Atlanta heavy, so I imagine he will be pushing extremely hard for this to come together.

Just for kicks, I should mention that we’re looking to schedule our “Away” game at Duke in Atlanta as well for 2010. Coach Saban did mention wanting to schedule West Virginia very soon since he grew up near Morgantown, so we could end up with another game in Atlanta since I imagine WVU would like to recruit the ATL as well (big if though).

Back to 2008. Currently, our schedule pans out as the following:

August 30 Western Kentucky
September 6 Tulane
September 20 @ Arkansas
September 27 @ Georgia
October 4 Kentucky
October 11
October 18 Ole Miss
October 25 @ Tennessee
November 1 Northern Illinois
November 8 Mississippi State
November 15 @ LSU
November 29 Auburn

We still have a date to fill. There has been talk of moving Western Kentucky and playing Clemson the first game, so let’s go ahead and insert Clemson. I don’t know where that would leave Western Kentucky, so I hope somebody can help me out on that one.

Also, we could take an off date before Auburn and after LSU or we can take it in the middle of the season. We’ll insert a scrub game (maybe WKU? Although I really don’t consider them scrubs in the full sense of the word) in the middle just for the heck of it. Of course, this all depends on how the early season scheduling works out. Let’s see what it looks like:

August 30 Clemson (Atlanta)
September 6 Tulane
September 20 @ Arkansas
September 27 @ Georgia
October 4 Kentucky
October 11 Scrub game
October 18 Ole Miss
October 25 @ Tennessee
November 1 Northern Illinois
November 8 Mississippi State
November 15 @ LSU
November 29 Auburn

Certainly a tough schedule for Coach Saban and the team early on if true. We will get to at least make up for Shula’s NIU disaster, so that’s always a positive (I guess). Still, we’ll get tested early and often. And, if this is the true schedule, it would appear that both Alabama and Auburn would have two difficult schedules next season. This means both teams should be pretty battle-tested by the time of next season’s Iron Bowl in Tuscaloosa. Stay tuned for more updates when relevant.

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