The Tide will face Chattanooga in 2026 following a mutual agreement with the USF Bulls. Alabama has also scheduled a future matchup with Marshall.

Alabama and South Florida mutually agreed to move next year's game to the 2032 season. The Crimson Tide were scheduled to host the Bulls on Sept. 12, though Alabama will play Chattanooga, an FCS program, instead.

The Crimson Tide football program announced Tuesday, Dec. 2 it would move its 2026 meeting with the Bulls to 2032 and replace the game with one against Chattanooga. Alabama signed a three-game contract with South Florida on April 4, 2019. The Crimson Tide beat the Bulls in each of the first two meetings in 2023 and 2024.

Alabama's 2025 SEC schedule has the Crimson Tide facing the same conference opponents as 2024, but with home/road assignments flipped. In 2025, Alabama will face Vanderbilt, Tennessee, LSU and Oklahoma at Bryant-Denny Stadium with road games against Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri and Auburn.

By all accounts, Alabama was more likely to make the College Football Playoff than not going into Saturday's SEC title game. Now it's not so certain.

The Crimson Tide and South Florida “mutually agreed” to move the 2026 game to 2032, UA announced Tuesday. Alabama and the Bulls have already played two of three games in the scheduled series. The Crimson Tide is 2-0 so far against the FBS school. The game in Tampa in 2023 was particularly close as Alabama won 17-3.

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Alabama stays in compliance with the new SEC scheduling policy of including one Power Four conference game with contests scheduled over the next 10 seasons. In seven of the next 10 years Alabama has two Power Four games on the schedule.