Alabama vs. Florida

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Alabama’s biggest win1926: Alabama 49, Florida 0by 49 points
2. Florida’s biggest win1991: Florida 35, Alabama 0by 35 points
3. Upset1927: Florida 13, Alabama 6Florida had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1999: Alabama 40, Florida 39Alabama had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1963: Florida 10, Alabama 6Florida had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2009: Alabama 32, Florida 13No. 1 Florida at No. 2 Alabama
7. Ranked showdown2008: Florida 31, Alabama 20No. 1 Alabama at No. 2 Florida
8. Ranked showdown2010: Alabama 31, Florida 6No. 7 Florida at No. 1 Alabama

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Alabama’s side (Wade 2–⁠1 against Sebring). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1916 · The Birmingham age-herald, Oct 22, 1916

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  1921 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 12, 1921

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  1923 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Nov 30, 1923

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  1925 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 15, 1925

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  1927 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 13, 1927

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.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game twice: 2009, 2008.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Alabama vs. Tennessee108 meetings, Alabama 61–⁠40–⁠7
• Alabama vs. Mississippi State107 meetings, Alabama 87–⁠17–⁠3
• Alabama vs. LSU89 meetings, Alabama 58–⁠26–⁠5
• Alabama vs. Vanderbilt87 meetings, Alabama 64–⁠19–⁠4
• Florida vs. Georgia104 meetings, Florida 44–⁠58–⁠2
• Florida vs. Auburn86 meetings, Florida 40–⁠44–⁠2
• Florida vs. Kentucky76 meetings, Florida 54–⁠22
• Florida vs. LSU72 meetings, Florida 34–⁠35–⁠3