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1982 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

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Ranking
CoachesNo. 17
1982 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Georgia $ 6 0 0 11 1 0
No. 11 LSU 4 1 1 8 3 1
No. 14 Auburn 4 2 0 9 3 0
Vanderbilt 4 2 0 8 4 0
Tennessee 3 2 1 6 5 1
Alabama 3 3 0 8 4 0
Florida 3 3 0 8 4 0
Mississippi State 2 4 0 5 6 0
Ole Miss 0 6 0 4 7 0
Kentucky 0 6 0 0 10 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1982 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 88th overall and 49th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 25th and final year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with eight wins and four losses (8–4 overall, 3–3 in the SEC) and with a victory over Illinois in the Liberty Bowl.

Alabama was 5–0 after they defeated Penn State 42–21, with the decisive play coming when a Penn State player blocked his own team's punt.[1] But after that it was all downhill. Paul Bryant's last season as Alabama football coach saw a nine-game winning streak against Auburn and eleven-game winning streaks against Tennessee and LSU all come to an end. The loss to Southern Miss was Alabama's first loss in Tuscaloosa since 1963, breaking a 57-game win streak in Bryant–Denny Stadium. Coach Bryant retired after Alabama's bowl victory against Illinois and died one month later, on January 26, 1983.

Schedule

September 1112:30 PMat Georgia Tech*No. 4

W 45–757,126 September 181:30 PMat Ole MissNo. 4

W 42–1462,385 September 251:30 PMVanderbiltNo. 4

W 24–2160,210 October 27:30 PMArkansas State*No. 5

W 34–767,459 October 912:30 PMNo. 3 Penn State*No. 4

  • Legion Field
  • Birmingham, AL (Rivalry)

CBSW 42–2176,821 October 161:00 PMat TennesseeNo. 2

L 28–3595,342 October 231:30 PMCincinnati*daggerNo. 7

  • Bryant–Denny Stadium
  • Tuscaloosa, AL

W 21–360,210 October 301:30 PMat Mississippi StateNo. 9

  • Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Jackson, MS (Rivalry)

W 20–1262,110 November 61:30 PMNo. 11 LSUNo. 8

  • Legion Field
  • Birmingham, AL (Rivalry)

L 10–2077,230 November 131:30 PMSouthern Miss*No. 17

  • Bryant–Denny Stadium
  • Tuscaloosa, AL

L 29–3860,210 November 2711:00 AMvs. Auburn

ABCL 22–2376,300 December 297:00 PMvs. Illinois*

MetroSportsW 21–1554,123

Template:CFB Schedule End

  • Source: Rolltide.com: 1982 Alabama football schedule[2]

References

General

  • "1982 Season Recaps" (PDF). RollTide.com. University of Alabama Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  • "2012 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Record Book" (PDF). Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Athletics Media Relations Office. 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2015.

Specific

  1. ^ "No. 4 Tide rolls over 3rd ranked Lions". Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal. Google News Archives. Associated Press. November 10, 1982. p. 5C. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  2. ^ "1982 Alabama football schedule". RollTide.com. University of Alabama Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved July 16, 2015.