Tennessee at Alabama

Saturday, October 20, 1928

Tennessee beat Alabama 15–⁠13. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 8–⁠3 as played.

AwayTennessee9–⁠0–⁠1 in 1928
15
HomeAlabama6–⁠3 in 1928
13

FinalHigh 80°F, low 46°FAttendance 8,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 22, 1928, page 5 (results column)

    Read the text

    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of prin- cipal football games played Satur- day afternoon in various parts of the states: oregan 27; University of Wash ington O. California 0; University of Southern California O. Ohio 19; Michigan ‘. Navy 6; Duke 0. Pennsylvania IA; Penn State 0. Army 15; Harvard 0. Minnesota 33; Chicago ‘. Northwestern ‘; Kentucky 0. Wisconsin 19; Purdue 19. Washington State 9; Oregon State ‘. Missouri 2S; Iowa State 19. Dartmouth 21; Columbia ‘. Yale 32; Brown IA. New York University s; Rutgers 0. Princeton 47; Lehigh 0. Colgate 16; Michigan State O.. Georgia Tech 13; Notre Dame O.. Tennessee 15; Alabama 13. West Virginia P; Washington and Lee O..

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Alabama 56% to win. Tennessee won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Alabama leads 60–⁠41–⁠6; as played, 61–⁠40–⁠7 in 108 meetings, counting the 97 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Tennessee 26, Alabama 10
2025Alabama 37, Tennessee 20
2024Tennessee 24, Alabama 17
2023Alabama 34, Tennessee 20
2022Tennessee 52, Alabama 49
2021Alabama 52, Tennessee 24

Around this game

Alabama