Alabama football’s 2026 schedule favors the Tide in the long run

Alabama football’s 2026 schedule favors the Tide in the long run

While the Southeastern Conference decided to move to a nine-game conference schedule to make each team’s schedule rougher and each team’s resume stronger, the alignment of Alabama’s schedule favors the Tide in the long run. The good news for the Tide lies in the fact that, while Alabama’s quality of opponents does not drop, and realistically improves, the scheduling of the games should allow the Crimson Tide to stay healthy and adequately prepar…