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Alabama vs. Western Kentucky: Kickoff time, TV channel announced

1918632_10206777287683070_1367905321192383146_nby:Charlie Potter•05/14/24•

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Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer
Kalen DeBoer (Courtesy of Alabama Athletics)

Alabama’s 2024 season opener now has a kickoff time and television channel.

The Crimson Tide’s Week 1 matchup against Western Kentucky on Saturday, Aug. 31, will kick off at 6 p.m. CT and will air on ESPN, it was announced Tuesday morning. The first game of the Kalen DeBoer era at Alabama will kick off under the light at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

This will mark the fourth meeting between the Tide and Hilltoppers. Alabama is 3-0 in the past three matchups and won the most recent in 2016, 38-10, in Tuscaloosa. Western Kentucky is coming off an 8-5 (5-3 C-USA) record and beat Old Dominion in its bowl game.

The matchup with WKU is now the third game on Alabama’s 2024 football schedule with a kick time and television channel, joining the Week 3 road trip to Wisconsin (11 a.m. CT on FOX) and the highly-anticipated Week 5 home game against Georgia (6:30 p.m. on ABC).

Alabama Football’s 2024 Schedule

Aug. 31 – Western Kentucky – 6 p.m. (ESPN)
Sept. 7 – South Florida
Sept. 14 – at Wisconsin – 11 a.m. (FOX)
Sept. 21 – BYE
Sept. 28 – Georgia – 6:30 p.m. (ABC)
Oct. 5 – at Vanderbilt
Oct. 12 – South Carolina
Oct. 19 – at Tennessee
Oct. 26 – Missouri
Nov. 2 – BYE
Nov. 9 – at LSU
Nov. 16 – Mercer
Nov. 23 – at Oklahoma
Nov. 30 – Auburn

* all times Central

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