Alabama vs. Cincinnati
Alabama and Cincinnati have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1908; Alabama leads the series 6–0 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Alabama 6–0, and Alabama has won the last 6. Share
- Alabama wins
- 6
- Cincinnati wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1908
- Longest streak
- 6 Alabama
- Current streak
- 6 Alabama
- Last 10 meetings
- Alabama 6–0
- Most recent
- 2021
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Alabama 1, Cincinnati 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 25 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Alabama
- 4–0 Alabama’s record at home
- At Cincinnati
- 0–1 Cincinnati’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Alabama first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Alabama’s biggest win1990: Alabama 45, Cincinnati 7by 38 points
- Ranked showdown2021: Alabama 27, Cincinnati 6No. 4 Cincinnati at No. 1 Alabama
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Brian Robinson Jr. Alabama | 2021 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1908 · The Birmingham age-herald, Oct 18, 1908
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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Dec 31, 2021 | 1Alabama 27, 4Cincinnati 6 | AT&T Stadium | Cotton Bowl, CFP Semifinal | |
| Nov 17, 1990 | Alabama 45, Cincinnati 7 | at Alabama | ||
| Sep 21, 1985 | 16Alabama 45, Cincinnati 10 | at Alabama | ||
| Nov 17, 1984 | Alabama 29, Cincinnati 7 | at Cincinnati | ||
| Oct 23, 1982 | 7Alabama 21, Cincinnati 3 | at Alabama | ||
| Oct 17, 1908 | Alabama 16, Cincinnati 0 | at Alabama |
Every game is listed as played on the field.