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Alabama all business for Cotton Bowl

DALLAS | Friday's inclement weather had a few Alabama players scrambling to get back to Tuscaloosa for the team chartered flight to Texas on Saturday morning and some even took buses to make it in time.

No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 3 Michigan State

When: 7 p.m., Thursday

Where: Arlington, Texas

Records: Alabama 12-1

Michigan State 12-1

TV: ESPN

Radio: 95.3 FM, 99.1 FM

It was a scheduling nightmare for Alabama's director of football operations but everything worked out in the end as the team arrived in the Lone Star state in the early afternoon, welcomed by the Townview High School (Dallas) marching band as the team strolled into its hotel.