Vanderbilt Football 2022 Opponent Preview: Alabama

Date: September 24, 2022

Where: Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Last year: 13-2 (7-1 SEC.) Beat Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, then lost to the same Georgia in the National Championship Game. Outscored their opponents by almost 20 points per game. This was, allegedly, a rebuilding year.

Series record: Alabama leads, 59-19-4. And even that’s inflated by, well, games 100 years ago when Vanderbilt was good at football. Since 1960, Alabama leads the series 45-2 on the field, though they did have to forfeit the 1993 game. Thanks, NCAA!

The last time we saw these guys: September 23, 2017. Back before the SEC expanded, Alabama played Vanderbilt every year, and even for the first few years of divisional…