Everyone knows I am a geek and hate P5 vs D1AA games. I am updating the record of P5 vs D1AA for my own interest, but that is not really what this post is about. It was just while doing so, I noticed something interesting to me (maybe some others might find it interesting) about Alabama. From 1902 to 2003, Alabama had 595 home games of those they played:
313 in Tuscaloosa
237 in Birmingham (this does not count the games against Auburn when it was an Auburn home game)
23 in Montgomery
22 in Mobile
47% scheduled home game outside of your home stadium seems a lot. In the early 2000 Alabama fans must have said enough is enough. I thought that maybe it was just that Legion Field was so much larger than Bryant-Denny Stadium, but checking both had relative similar capacities thru their history.
313 in Tuscaloosa
237 in Birmingham (this does not count the games against Auburn when it was an Auburn home game)
23 in Montgomery
22 in Mobile
47% scheduled home game outside of your home stadium seems a lot. In the early 2000 Alabama fans must have said enough is enough. I thought that maybe it was just that Legion Field was so much larger than Bryant-Denny Stadium, but checking both had relative similar capacities thru their history.
