Alabama and South Carolina have 19 meetings on file, the first in 1937; officially, Alabama leads 14–4; as played, 16–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Alabama 7–3, and Alabama has won the last 4. The NCAA vacated Alabama’s win (2005); it doesn’t count officially. Alabama forfeited the 1993 game. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Alabama’s side (DeBoer 3–0 against Beamer). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Alabama South CarolinaTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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).
From the newspapers
1945 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 14, 1945
1946 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 6, 1946
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.
On television
ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2010.
Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”, and a game one side later forfeited is marked “forfeited”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.
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