The showdown between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida State Seminoles in Week 1 of the 2025 college football season now has a reported start time and TV channel.
Veteran college football scribe Brett McMurphy reported Tuesday that the SEC, ACC and its television partner ESPN had agreed to kickoff times for four games featuring the two conferences in head-to-head action.
Alabama and Florida State will kick off at 2:30 p.m. CT from Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee. The game will be televised on ABC, McMurphy reported.
That same day, LSU will visit the Clemson Tigers in prime time at 6:30 p.m. CT, and Tennessee will open the season vs. Syracuse at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at 11 a.m., in other SEC vs. ACC play. On Sunday, Virginia Tech and South Carolina are scheduled to meet at Mercedes-Benz Stadium at 2 p.m. CT.
For Alabama and Florida State, it will be their first meeting since the 2017 season opener at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Crimson Tide defense smothered the Seminoles in a 24-7 win. The only other time Alabama has placed FSU in the state of Florida was on Sept. 29, 2007, a 21-14 loss to Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles in Jacksonville during Nick Saban’s first season as Crimson Tide coach.
This year’s meeting will be the sixth all-time between Alabama and Florida State. The Tide lead the series, 3-1-1.
Alabama went 9-4 a season ago under first-year coach Kalen DeBoer, beating rivals Auburn, LSU and Georgia and falling to Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma before losing to Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl (formerly the Outback Bowl).
Florida State went 2-10 last season under coach Mike Norvell.
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