Link: Report: Alabama and Cincinnati Talk About 2015 Game

RTR91 · Jun 17, 2014

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Nick Saban could face Tommy Tuberville once again if Alabama plays the Cincinnati Bearcats in 2015, as a 247Sports report suggests.

Tom Groeschen of the Cincinnati Enquirer said Monday afternoon that the schools have discussed playing at some future point, with a 2015 date in Cincinnati being one possibility.

TUSKtimes · Jun 17, 2014

Whiskey and Cincy? That's what I'm talking about.

TiderJack · Jun 17, 2014

This would help with our Ohio recruiting.

jthomas666 · Jun 17, 2014

TiderJ said:
This would help with our ongoing campaign of vengeance.

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BigEasyTider · Jun 17, 2014

This makes a lot of sense in furtherance of our continued recruiting reach up into the Ohio River Valley.

That said, playing Cincinnati on the road is probably the most barring "major" OOC match-up we've had in ages.

alabama mike1 · Jun 17, 2014

If this happens, maybe the game could be played at Paul Brown Stadium. UC's field only seats about 30,000.

CrimsonMapper · Jun 17, 2014

alabama mike1 said:
If this happens, maybe the game could be played at Paul Brown Stadium. UC's field only seats about 30,000.

Actually, that would be the first game in the renovated stadium. I'm told seating would still only be in the low 40's. UC is actually playing their home games at Paul Brown this year while the stadium is undergoing renovations.

B1GTide · Jun 17, 2014

CrimsonMapper said:
Actually, that would be the first game in the renovated stadium. I'm told seating would still only be in the low 40's. UC is actually playing their home games at Paul Brown this year while the stadium is undergoing renovations.

Yep - scheduled to be completed for the 2015 season, but I doubt that the game would be played there. They would probably play in Paul Brown Stadium - still small by SEC standards, but much larger than Nippert. I think PB seats about 65k.

selmaborntidefan · Jun 17, 2014

Why in the world would we want to play Cincinnati?

They didn't beat us. If this is to get back at Tubs, are we going to go schedule Texas State as well so we can drill Franchione?

CrimsonForce · Jun 17, 2014

I wouldn't mind them as a filler game instead of western Carolina. I wouldn't want it to be our traditional one marquee OOC game.

deliveryman35 · Jun 17, 2014

We played a series against them back in the 80s.

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BamaJama17 · Jun 17, 2014

Ehh it's better than Georgia State or Western Carolina and it is Tubs coaching them.

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BamaFlum · Jun 17, 2014

BamaJama17 said:
Ehh it's better than Georgia State or Western Carolina and it is Tubs coaching them.

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This. We whine about playing nobodies and then when they try to schedule a decent out of conference team, we still complain. I've always wanted to play one great OOC team, one/two good ones, and one/two lesser teams: like FSU, Baylor, Pitt, and UC for example.

RT3413 · Jun 18, 2014

CrimsonForce said:
I wouldn't mind them as a filler game instead of western Carolina. I wouldn't want it to be our traditional one marquee OOC game.

If it's 2015 we already play Wisconsin in Dallas that year.

Blindside13 · Jun 18, 2014

BamaFlum said:
This. We whine about playing nobodies and then when they try to schedule a decent out of conference team, we still complain. I've always wanted to play one great OOC team, one/two good ones, and one/two lesser teams: like FSU, Baylor, Pitt, and UC for example.

I agree take this years schedule for example. If we were to replace Florida Atlantic with a Cincinnati type opponent them, Wake Forest, Pitt, Houston, just to name a few it would not be a bad schedule. Last years record aside West Virginia when scheduled was a very good OOC matchup. Granted Southern Miss has been down but I have seen years where they were the best team in Mississippi; they still get good players and they are not Georgia State. I still like the cupcake before the barn.

bamahippie · Jun 18, 2014

selmaborntidefan said:
Are we going to go schedule Texas State as well so we can drill Franchione?

Hey, that's a good idea! :biggrin2:

TideEngineer08 · Jun 18, 2014

I like it and I would like to see us play the game at Nippert - at night. I'm nostalgic that way.

RTR91 · Jun 18, 2014

Folks have said they are tired of the neutral site games. When word starts to spread Alabama might play Cincinnati in Nippert, folks want to talk about moving the game to Paul Brown Stadium because Nippert is too small. I get the stadiums are in the same city, but we might as well play them in their stadium if we're going to Cincinnati. So what if the stadium is small. That's part of it.

ALA2262 · Jun 22, 2014

The additional game will not be played anywhere but BDS.

BamaJama17 · Jun 23, 2014

I'm tired if neutral site games. I wish they'd bring back home and home games.

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