Illustration by Corey BrightAlex Jones - Blazeradio General Manager
alex96@uab.edu
UAB football will be returning to the gridiron in 2017, and the program has already released scheduling plans for games against non-conference opponents. Alabama A&M, Ball State, Coastal Carolina and the Florida Gators are all scheduled to compete against the Blazers in the near future.
The Blazers are set to play the Gators in the 2017 season, traveling to Gainesville to compete against the 2008 SEC Champions. However, UAB has no non-conference games scheduled for 2019 and only one game, against Coastal Carolina, scheduled for the 2018 season. UAB has played teams from each of the power five conferences — ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and the SEC — competing against teams like Ohio State, LSU and Mississippi State. So which power five school should UAB schedule to play in the future? Why not play a school that is two-and-a-half hours down the road?
