23-07-2025
Georgia, LSU or Tennessee? ESPN names Alabama football's biggest 'swing game' of 2025
The 2025 schedule for Alabama football features no shortage of big games and challenges ahead.
The Crimson Tide have largely the same schedule as 2024. In SEC play, they'll face the same opponents as last season, only with home vs. away dates flipped. Alabama also hosts Wisconsin on the back end of a home-and-home series, leaving room for just three new opponents on the 2025 schedule.
Alabama opens the season with its first ever visit to Tallahassee to face Florida State instead of hosting Western Kentucky. The Crimson Tide host Louisiana Monroe (ULM) rather than South Florida, and Eastern Illinois replaces Mercer this year as an FCS opponent.
Having the same eight opponents in conference play also means that Alabama will face Georgia in a rematch of last year's classic won by the Tide. It will mark Alabama's first visit to Sanford Stadium since 2015 when the Crimson Tide won as underdogs against Mark Richt's final Bulldogs team.
On Wednesday, ESPN's panel of college football insiders called Alabama-Georgia the biggest swing game of the year for the Crimson Tide.
Chris Low reasoned:
"A loss at Georgia wouldn't necessarily be a crippling blow, especially since Georgia hasn't lost a game at home in five years, but winning in Athens would afford Alabama a mulligan (or two) if the Tide were to trip up the rest of the way against somebody they shouldn't lose to."
Alabama knows a thing or two about that, given that they followed up last year's thrilling 41-34 win over the Dawgs with a first-in-40-years loss to Vanderbilt. The Tide also "tripped up" late last season in an ugly 24-3 clunker at Oklahoma that ultimately proved fatal to their College Football Playoff hopes.
Earlier this summer, the SEC announced that kickoff for Alabama-Georgia would be in prime time (6:30 p.m. CT, ABC). Georgia's five-year home winning streak notwithstanding, Alabama hasn't lost a regular season game to the Bulldogs since Nick Saban's first year in Tuscaloosa in 2007. The Tide's last loss in Athens was in 2003 during Mike Shula's first season as coach; though in fairness, the two teams have met Between the Hedges only three times this century.
Something will have to give when Alabama and Georgia meet on Sept. 27.
Alabama football schedule 2025, game by game
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