Texas will not have a spring game in 2025.
Steve Sarkisian revealed the development on the “Up & Adams Show.”
Talks of teams adapting their spring practices and canceling their spring games have been a growing topic in recent months. The path is gaining popularity due to the transfer portal and concerns over the health of players.
Sarkisian revealed the health of his players played a pivotal role in his decision.
“I think a couple reasons why,” Sarkisian said. “Over the last two years, we’ve played 30 games. That’s a lot for college football. 14 two years ago, 16 this year, and I just mentioned we’ve had 25 guys get invited to the NFL Combine the last two years. So we’ve got a lot of young players on our roster. We have 21 mid-year high school kids who just showed up. And so the development that’s needed for these guys to get ready for the fall is a little bit different than it used to be. And so our approach is going to be a little bit more NFL-driven, kind of more of an OTA style early on. And as we grow into more of the scrimmage formats in the second half of spring ball, I just don’t know rolling the ball out, playing the game when we only get 15 practices is the best for us to maximize the opportunities that we get. So it’s going to be a little bit of different approach. But I think college think college football is changing right now, and we need to do a great job as coaches of adapting to college football, and that’s we’re trying to do, and I think it’s going to be good for our team.”
Alabama football still plans to have its annual spring game, A-Day.
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