The home and home with West Virginia reduced our home games to seven...and the Oregon game reduced the total to six. With the Arkansas game moving back to a Friday afternoon start we're down to five opportunities for a night game in Tiger Stadium. If Kentucky is a day game we're down to only four. Two of those are against Northwestern State and Western Kentucky which leave us with only two chances for a big night game. Unless Florida or Auburn are scheduled for a night start we're completely screwed this year. Tiger Stadium rocks regardless of the time or opponent but it's really sad we can't have at least 1-2 big games at night. I don't miss many games and never miss the bowls. Even so...getting excited about a morning game is difficult. If I'm going to miss a game this year the Kentucky starting time will probably be the reason. 9/10-Northwestern State (X) 10/1-Kentucky (X) 10/8-Florida (?) 10/22-Auburn (?) 11/12-Western Kentucky (X) 11/26-Arkansas (X)
I think we get back to something approaching a normal schedule in 2012. I'm just not a fan of these one-off games at neutral sites. I understand the $$$ involved, but season ticket holders spend enough money already without home games getting taken away. Give me a traditional home-and-away anytime, I don't care how hard they are to schedule, we've got plenty of folks in the AD to make that happen.
you can scratch the florida game, and the auburn game, and the arkansas game. CBS is single handedly eliminating our home field advantage in SEC play.
how did it make it worse? did ESPN's contract force CBS to only take 1 night game a year? I'm not trying to be a smart ass I really just don't have any idea. And everyone does realize that 1 night game will be in Tuscaloosa this year when we travel there.
