Alabama continues to take itself off the neutral-site market in future college football seasons.
Athletic officials from Alabama and Wisconsin on Monday announced a home-and-home series for the 2024-25 seasons. The 2024 matchup will be held at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, with the 2025 contest set for Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa.
"Players come here to play in big games against the best teams. It's a way to measure themselves," Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said in a release. "A matchup like this excites your team. It picks up the tempo during your offseason, just like when we opened the season with LSU and Alabama a few years ago."
Alabama and Wisconsin opened the 2015 season at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with the Crimson Tide winning 35-17 to ignite a run to the national championship.
"This home-and-home series will be a tremendous opportunity for our programs to play in two of the best atmospheres in college football," Tide coach Nick Saban said. "Matchups like this are so important to the health of college football because it provides fans exciting matchups and players new challenges."
Alabama has neutral-site contests scheduled each of the next three seasons, with the Tide facing Duke next month in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta, Southern California next season in Arlington and Miami in Atlanta in 2021.
After that, however, there are no neutral-site games on the Tide horizon, with Alabama now having scheduled home-and-home series with Texas (2022-23), Wisconsin (2024-25), West Virginia (2026-27) and Notre Dame (2028-29). Alabama also has a home-and-home with Oklahoma in 3032-33.
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