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College GameDay heading to Tuscaloosa for massive Alabama-Auburn hoops game
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College GameDay will return to Tuscaloosa next Saturday when No. 3 Alabama hosts No. 1 Auburn in what promises to be one of the most influential games of the SEC regular season.
The traveling pregame show revealed on Saturday that it will return to Tuscaloosa on Feb. 15. Doors for Crimson Chaos members will open at 8:30 a.m. ET that morning with the general public being admitted 30 minutes later. GameDay will broadcast live from Coleman Coliseum beginning at 10 a.m. ET. The game is scheduled to tip at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN.
A mainstay in the football crew’s rotation, Alabama is a relative newcomer to GameDay’s basketball scene. Next Saturday will mark just the second time in program history Alabama will host the basketball version of the traveling pregame show. GameDay came to town in March 2024 when Alabama, ranked No. 14 at the time, hosted No. 4 Tennessee.
The Crimson Tide enter into the weekend with a 19-3 record on the season. They’ve won 8 of their first 9 games to begin league play but sit second in the conference. Alabama will have to navigate consecutive road games against Arkansas (8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday) and Texas (Feb. 11) before it hosts Auburn.
Auburn is 21-1 on the season. The top-ranked Tigers are unbeaten in league play, with 5 of the 9 wins coming by double-digits. Auburn hosts Florida on Saturday and has a midweek game at Vanderbilt on Tuesday.
These 2 teams split the regular-season series last year, with Alabama winning by 4 at home and Auburn winning by 17 a few weeks later. That win for the Tigers snapped a string of 3 consecutive wins in the series for the Crimson Tide.
Derek Peterson does a bit of everything, not unlike Taysom Hill. He has covered Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Pac-12, and now delivers CFB-wide content.
