Alabama and Tennessee first met in 1903 and have played 108 times; officially, Alabama leads 60–41–6; as played, 61–40–7. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Alabama 7–3. 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. By the rivalry’s Wikipedia article, Alabama leads 60–40–7 over 108 meetings. Share
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Alabama’s side (Pollard 3–0 against Levene). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Alabama TennesseeTicks 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
1903 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 27, 1903
1904 · Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., Nov 25, 1904
1905 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Dec 1, 1905
1906 · The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, Nov 30, 1906
1907 · The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, Nov 29, 1907
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 twice: 2022, 1995.
A panoramic view of the interior of Bryant-Denny Stadium during an Alabama football game versus the Tennessee Volunteers.Photo: Matthew Tosh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 2011 game
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).
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.
