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Alabama football announced kick off time for Week 3 game against USF

Alabama vs. USF set to kick off in primetime at 6 p.m. CT

The Alabama Crimson Tide have announced their fourth kickoff time of the 2024 season as they will host the USF Bulls at 6:00 p.m. CT in Week 2 under the lights.

After traveling to Tampa in 2023, the Tide will have two home games against the Bulls in 2024 and 2026 as part of a special two-for-one deal.

The Alabama faithful hope this year’s matchup is significantly less stressful than a year ago as the Tide survived USF in a monsoon by an ugly score of 17-3. Most notably, Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe didn’t appear in the game after being benched due to a poor performance against the Texas Longhorns in Week 2.

There will obviously be some growing pains in Kalen DeBoer’s first couple of games in charge, but I think the Alabama team as a whole will want to make a statement after last year’s showing.

Known kickoff times for Alabama’s 2024 football schedule:

– Aug. 31, Western Kentucky, 6 p.m.
– Sept. 7, USF, 6 p.m.
– Sept. 14, at Wisconsin, 11 a.m.
– Sept. 28, Georgia, 6:30 p.m.

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Kickoff time announced for Alabama football’s road trip to Wisconsin

Alabama at. Wisconsin set to kick off at 11 a.m. CT on FOX

Kalen DeBoer’s first real test as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide will come in Week 3 as the Tide travel to Madison, Wisconsin to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. With the Badgers being a consistent top-25 team and it being the first road game of the DeBoer era, it will be a challenge. Fortunately, Alabama avoided a rowdy primetime crowd as FOX announced that the game will kick off at 11:00 a.m. CT.

Despite the major coaching change, Alabama is still widely considered a top-ten team by everyone in the country heading into next season. The Crimson Tide returns some valuable pieces such as quarterback Jalen Milroe and safety Malachi Moore while also adding some nice players such as Parker Brailsford, Germie Bernard, Domani Jackson and Ryan Williams. It certainly doesn’t hurt the Tide’s odds that DeBoer is coming off of a national title appearance with the Washington Huskies.

For the Badgers, 2024 is going to be a very telling season for the program. Luke Fickell was a highly regarded hire a year ago, but after a 7-6 campaign in year one, people will expect more.

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— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) May 13, 2024

ESPN breaks down the biggest overreactions for Alabama football heading into 2024

ESPN’s Chris Low says that a brewing quarterback controversy is the biggest overreaction from spring ball

As spring ball wraps up and the season is still about four months away, this is easily the worst time of the year on the football calendar. With nothing to preoccupy our minds, we tend to get wrapped up in overreactions from spring football such as position battles or transfer speculations. After a busy winter transfer portal window for the Alabama Crimson Tide due to Nick Saban’s retirement, the spring window was fortunately pretty slow with only a handful of departures, however, position battles are wide open.

Quarterback Ty Simpson had a really strong spring camp as well as transfer Austin Mack who came over with head coach Kalen DeBoer from the Washington Huskies. However, Chris Low of ESPN argues that the biggest overreaction in Tuscaloosa is that a QB controversy is brewing. Low says of the Tide,

“Let’s pump the brakes on a quarterback controversy looming in Tuscaloosa as Kalen DeBoer takes over for Nick Saban as Alabama’s coach. The Tide staff loved what they saw this spring from Ty Simpson and the steps he took. He was much more decisive in his decision-making and played with more confidence than he did last spring and preseason when he was competing for the starting job. But Alabama’s starter unequivocally remains Jalen Milroe, who was the key to Alabama’s transformation a year ago from an above-average team to a playoff team. Milroe should thrive in DeBoer’s system and has a year of experience to build on as a second-year starter. The best news for the Crimson Tide is that they have two quarterbacks they believe in, and that’s always comforting going into a season.”

It will take some time for Kalen DeBoer’s offense to be fully integrated to the Alabama players, but returning a starting quarterback like Jalen Milroe through the coaching transition is absolutely massive. Milroe is the highest-returning Heisman vote-getter from a season ago and looks to take a massive step forward in DeBoer’s QB-friendly offense.