Alabama Crimson Tide, Florida State announce home-and-home for 2025-26

Alabama continued to bolster its future schedules on Thursday as it announced a home-and-home football series against Florida State for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. The Crimson Tide already had at least one Power 5 non-conference opponent scheduled for every year of the coming decade. Now it will have two such games in 2025 and 2026.

“The addition of Florida State to the 2025 and 2026 schedules gives us our second non-conference Power 5 matchups of those seasons as we also play Wisconsin at home in 2025 and West Virginia on the road in 2026,” said Alabama Director of Athletics Greg Byrne. “We’ve been working diligently at building future schedules that provide our team and our fans a lot of excitement and opportunity, and we are pleased to add the Seminoles to that mix.”

The first game will take place in Tallahassee, Fla., on Aug. 30, 2025, with Florida State returning the trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Sept. 19, 2026.

“Our administration has worked extremely hard to upgrade our non-conference schedule in the coming years and the addition of Florida State in 2025 and 2026 is another great example,” said Alabama head coach Nick Saban. “This gives us two non-conference games against high-caliber Power 5 competition in those seasons, which is good for both our program and our fans. We have played a couple of great neutral site games with the Seminoles over the years and this home-and-home series should be no different.”

Alabama and Florida State will square off for the sixth time in history when the two programs meet at Doak Campbell Stadium to begin the home-and-home series. The Crimson Tide won the most recent matchup, 24-7, in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta, Ga., to open the 2017 season. Including the victory at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Tide holds a 3-1-1 advantage in the series.

A home-and-home with Virginia Tech from 2034-35 was also announced Thursday.

The Crimson Tide will visit Blacksburg, Va., on Sept. 2, 2034. The Hokies will play in Tuscaloosa on Sept. 1, 2035.

Alabama's 2034 visit will mark the Crimson Tide's first trip to Blacksburg since Frank Beamer's senior season as a player in 1969. Alabama is 12-1 all-time against Virginia Tech with its most recent meeting coming in a 35-10 victory for the Crimson Tide in the 2013 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta.

With the addition of Florida State and Virginia Tech, Alabama has added seven home-and-home series to future schedules recently, including Texas (2022 & 2023), Wisconsin (2024 & 2025), West Virginia (2026 & 2027), Notre Dame (2028 & 2029), Oklahoma (2032 & 2033).

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