When Birmingham plays its first Alliance of American Football game in February, expect plenty of players from Alabama and Auburn to be on the field.
The AAF announced its player-allocation policy on Thursday, and Phase 1 involves pairing former college stars with regional AAF teams.
Each AAF team will control the rights to players from at least five college programs. For Birmingham, the colleges include 13 state schools as well as South Carolina, Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech, North Carolina State, Maryland and Missouri. In addition to Alabama and Auburn, the state colleges on Birmingham's assignment list include UAB, South Alabama, Troy, Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Jacksonville State, Samford, Miles, North Alabama, Tuskegee and West Alabama.