Don’t expect many changes to Alabama’s football schedule in the near future.
Athletic director Greg Byrne, who replaced Bill Battle on March 2, told the Tuscaloosa News that scheduling already has been discussed and that the Tide plans to follow a similar model moving forward.
“We have already had some discussions about that,” Byrne told the newspaper. “The model that we have used for the past several years (seven home games, four SEC games and an early-season game at a neutral site) has worked very well. I have not heard a lot of momentum for a nine-game SEC schedule, so we are proceeding forward as if that (eight-game league schedule) will stay the same.