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 Alabama enters the Sept. 4 game with Miami in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium with a perfect 10-0 record in these neutral-site non-conference games that began with the upset of Clemson. The sport is changing by the minute and the future of scheduling games remains uncertain. Alabama doesn’t have a single neutral-site game on the books as it pivots to a structure of home-and-home series. With games set for teams in all four current Power 5 conferences stretched all the way through 2035,

 Alabama’s clearly taking exits not labeled Atlanta or Arlington unless it’s the postseason.None of that is lost on Gary Stokan, the CEO of the Peach Bowl, Inc., who will be welcoming the Tide to Atlanta for the sixth Labor Day  Alabama football live online Saturday game next week.“I think ADs are also looking at, ‘Hey, revenue-wise, we need to keep our season-ticket holders happy and interested,” Stokan said. “And so we need to schedule big time against at home so that’s a lot of revenue when you’re talking about the season ticket base.” Alabama hasn’t played a non-conference road game since 2011 on a return game to Penn State a year after the Nittany Lions came to Tuscaloosa. Alabama AD Greg Byrne said they want to bring more value to season ticket holders and with increased luxury seating options, bringing three non-Power 5 opponents on top of the four SEC games didn’t have quite the magnetic effect on Bryant-Denny.That said, the Week 1 games on neutral ground have been good to the Tide. They’ve won all 10 such meetings by an average final score of 38-13. None of those 10 Power 5 opponents kept it closer than 10 (Virginia Tech in 2009 and West Virginia in 2014).Alabama shredded top-10 teams like No. 8 Michigan (41-14 in 2012) in Arlington and No.

 3 Florida State (24-7 in 2017) in Atlanta. The game with the Seminoles was infamously dubbed the G.O.A.T., short for Greatest Opener of All Time in a showdown that was never actually competitive. Alabama beat Duke, 42-3 in a considerably less-hyped 2019 opener in the most recent of these games. The buzz has simmered for these games following the much-hyped game with Florida State with 2018 game with post-Lamar Jackson Louisville in Orlando followed by Duke back in Atlanta.“I think it’s really cool whenever you get a chance to play on a big stage in a neutral site like Atlanta in a really nice stadium – a great venue for football,” said Alabama offensive lineman Emil Ekiyor, who played in that 2019 blowout of the Blue Devils. “So it’s really exciting to have a chance to play in places like that.”Stokan sure hopes schools share that enthusiasm.He currently Alabama football live streaming  has the kickoff game scheduled through the 2025 season with Georgia as the regular headliner. The Bulldogs are scheduled to face Oregon to begin the 2022 season in Atlanta and then Clemson in 2024. Stokan said Georgia coach Kirby Smart saw the value Alabama took from playing in those Week 1 games in the Georgia Dome in his time as defensive coordinator and wanted to replicate that with his program. His first game as head coach was a 33-24 win over North Carolina in 2016.“So Georgia’s kinda taken that position that they want to be in this type of game,” Stokan said. ‘So we filled it with Georgia.”The Bulldogs also played a high-profile home-and-home with Notre Dame in 2017 and 2019 that famously blended the two football cultures from different regions on campus – the vision Byrne and others had when bringing the likes of Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Arizona to future Alabama schedules.

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