Alabama and Oklahoma schedule home-and-home series for 2032 and 2033
Oklahoma has another 2019 College Football Playoff team on its schedule in the 2030s.
Alabama and Oklahoma will meet in a home-and-home series in 2032 and 2033, the two schools announced Tuesday. The first game will be in Norman while the second game will be in Tuscaloosa.
Two weeks ago, Oklahoma and Clemson agreed to a home-and-home series in 2035 and 2036. A freshman in 2032 who redshirts and plays four additional seasons for the Sooners will be around for both Alabama games and both Clemson games.
A home-and-home trend
It’s fun to see power programs scheduling home-and-home games against each other, even if the games are way out in the future. As neutral site games have been the moneymaker of the past decade for power programs, there’s been a decided shift toward Power Five programs scheduling home-and-home series with each other.
Oklahoma deserves kudos for being on the forefront of the trend. The Sooners are in the middle of series with UCLA and have home-and-homes with Tennessee, Nebraska, LSU and Michigan scheduled for the future in addition to the games with Alabama and Clemson.
It’s also nice to see Alabama shift the scheduling philosophy, even if the shift isn’t happening right away. The Crimson Tide have (understandably, from their perspective) eschewed home-and-home series in recent years and played a lot of neutral site games. The last non-conference road game the Tide played was in 2011 at Penn State.
Alabama has neutral site games against Duke, USC, and Miami over the next three seasons but has home-and-home setups with Texas, West Virginia, and Notre Dame after that. The Texas game in Austin in 2022 will be Alabama’s first non-conference road game since that Penn State game.
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Nick Bromberg is a writer for Yahoo Sports.
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