TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It’s a celebration, a big recruiting tool and essentially the midway point of the college football offseason. But for University of Alabama fans, the annual A-Day game is, above everything else, their first glimpse at next year’s team.
It’s also the only one that they’ll get until the first week of training camp in August, when Alabama will start preparing for the season opener against Southern California at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 3.
Granted, a number of players coming off injuries will be held out of the scrimmage and the play-calling will be vanilla to keep things simple and not give away too much to opposing teams, but those things are easily overlooked.