Alabama at Florida State: Week 1 kickoff time, TV channel announced
Alabama’s 2025 season opener now has a kickoff time and television channel.
The Crimson Tide’s Week 1 matchup against Florida State on Saturday, Aug. 30, will kick off at 2:30 p.m. CT and air on ABC, according to Action Network’s Brett McMurphy. The first game of Kalen DeBoer’s second season will be at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida.
This will mark the sixth meeting between Alabama and Florida State. The Crimson Tide owns a 3-1-1 advantage in the all-time series. The two teams last met to open the 2017 college football season in Atlanta, and Alabama won that matchup with the Seminoles, 24-7.
The 2025 season opener is the first of a two-game, home-and-home series between Alabama and FSU. The Seminoles will make a return trip to Tuscaloosa on September 19, 2026, per FBSchedules.com. Florida State is one of two non-conference games against a Power Four opponent on the Tide’s schedule, joining the Wisconsin Badgers (Sept. 13).
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Other opening weekend SEC-ACC matchups to receive kickoff times and television channels, according to McMurphy, include LSU-Clemson (6:30 p.m. on ABC), Tennessee-Syracuse (11 a.m. on ABC) and South Carolina-Virginia Tech (2 p.m. on ESPN on Sunday, Aug. 31).
Alabama Football’s 2025 Schedule
Aug. 30 – at Florida State
Sept. 6 – ULM
Sept. 13 – Wisconsin
Sept. 20 – BYE
Sept. 27 – at Georgia
Oct. 4 – Vanderbilt
Oct. 11 – at Missouri
Oct. 18 – Tennessee
Oct. 25 – at South Carolina
Nov. 1 – BYE
Nov. 8 – LSU
Nov. 15 – Oklahoma
Nov. 22 – Eastern Illinois
Nov. 29 – at Auburn
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