On Thursday it was announced by Western Kentucky that their football team has added a non conference game against Ohio State during the 2023 season subsequently pushing back their matchup with Alabama to 2024.
Alabama will now play Western Kentucky on Aug. 31, 2024, which will be the season opener for both of the schools.
Even after pushing the game back a season, Alabama will still have an impressive non conference schedule as the crimson tide host Texas and Central Michigan, while traveling to play South Florida. In 2024 Alabama will open with Western Kentucky, host USF and travel to face Wisconsin.
The crimson tide and hilltoppers have squared off as recently as 2016 where Alabama pulled off a 38-10 victory. Both schools have met a total of three times with Alabama winning all three.
Listed below are Alabama’s future non conference games:
2020: USC, Georgia State, Kent State, UT-Martin
2021: Miami, Southern Miss, New Mexico State, Mercer
2022: at Texas, Utah State, ULM
2023: Texas, at South Florida, Central Michigan
2024: at Wisconsin, South Florida, Western Kentucky
2025: Wisconsin, ULM
2026: at West Virginia, South Florida
2027: West Virginia
2028: at Notre Dame
2029: Notre Dame
2030: N/A
2031: N/A
2032: at Oklahoma
2033: Oklahoma
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Patrick Dowd is a Reporter for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via Pat_Dowd77