Don't expect Alabama football to play any in-state school not named Auburn.
That was the message new athletic director Greg Byrne delivered at the SEC spring meetings in Sandestin, Fla. Alabama hasn't faced a non-Auburn in-state opponent since 1944 and Byrne doesn't see any reason to change that.
"I think we have a very good model that's worked well for us and I don't see that changing," Byrne said.
Byrne squashed any hope that a new Capstone regime might mean good things for UAB, South Alabama, Troy and Samford. Alabama has long refused to play any of those non-SEC Alabama schools, yet the reasoning has always been ambiguous.