Alabama football fans wanting to get an early look at the upcoming team at the annual A-Day game will have to travel to Bryant-Denny Stadium to do so.
Alabama’s NIL collective, Yea Alabama, announced on Friday that the upcoming A-Day game on April 12 will kick off at noon but will not broadcast live.
Admission to the final spring practice will be free to the fans.
This will be the first time since 2007, Nick Saban’s first year as head coach, that Alabama’s A-Day game has not been broadcasted live on television or streamed online.
Last year's game was the first under new head coach Kalen DeBoer in which he moved away from the traditional format, putting the entire offense against the entire defense instead of the traditional first team against second team. While some schools have decided not to have a spring game because of injuries and transfer portal tampering, DeBoer indicated that this year’s game would be modified and resemble more of a practice than a scrimmage.
“A lot of times here, the A-Day Game, it’s been more of a practice, and there’s been some scrimmaging, not necessarily much of a game,” DeBoer told On3. “Even when I was at Fresno State, we called it the spring preview. Especially this year, there’s some things we’re working through with some injuries and so forth. So it’ll definitely be modified.”
For fans making the trip to Tuscaloosa, there will be plenty of events to attend besides the A-Day game. Before the game the University of Alabama will recognize the previous season’s captains, Jalen Milroe, Tyler Booker, Malachi Moore and Deontae Lawson, by having their hands and footprints placed in cement next to Denny Chimes.
After the game, the Alabama baseball and softball teams have home SEC matchups. The baseball team will host Mississippi State at 2 p.m. while the softball team will host the defending national champions Oklahoma at 2:30 p.m. for the first time since joining the SEC.
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