As for this season, Alabama will face Oklahoma on Friday, December 19 (7 p.m. CT, ABC/ESPN) in Norman, Oklahoma in the first round of the 12-team playoff. If the Crimson Tide wins that game, it will advance to the Rose Bowl to face No. 1 seed Indiana.

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 will welcome East Carolina, Florida State, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M, Chattanooga and Auburn to Tuscaloosa next season

Unpack the Crimson Tide's historic 2026 SEC slate, featuring an early conference opener and a tougher, new nine-game format.

Alabama will host Georgia and Auburn during the 2026 season, while also traveling to Tennessee and LSU. Here is Alabama's complete 2026 schedule.

Alabama faces a tough stretch in the middle of October. The Crimson Tide will host Georgia on Oct. 10 before traveling to Knoxville for its annual "Third Saturday in October" date with Tennessee. Alabama will return home Oct. 24 for its first home date against Texas A&M since 2022.

The No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners are about to host the No. 9 Alabama Crimson Tide in the first College Football Playoff game to ever be played in Norman.

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.

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.