According to Dillon Faulkner at CFABowl.com, “Alabama and Miami will face off on the gridiron in the 2021 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium. An exact date, kick time and television network will be finalized at a later date.”
Percy Vaughn, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl chairman said, “With two teams of this caliber playing for the first time in nearly three decades, it really is going to be an electric atmosphere and an epic celebration of college football here in Atlanta.”
The matchup seems to spark the imagination of college football fans of the 1980s and ’90s, when ‘The U’ was producing amazing football teams with many players going to the NFL.