It took several years, but former Alabama football head coach Nick Saban appears to finally be getting his way. A ccording to a report from On3’s Chris Low , the Crimson Tide will not be playing LSU yearly under the SEC’s new scheduling model .

Instead, Alabama will have Mississippi State as one of its yearly opponents. The Bulldogs will reportedly be on the Tide’s schedule every season, along with Auburn and Tennessee.

In 2023, after a report that Alabama would have drawn LSU as one of its three opponents during an earlier attempt at moving to a nine-game conference schedule, Saban cried foul to Sports Illustrated

“I’ve always been an advocate for playing more (conference) games,” Saban told Sports Illustrated in a 2023 story . “But if you play more games, I think you have to g

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