Bama-USC to meet again in 2020, four years after Tide blowout

Alabama beat USC 52-6 in 2016’s opening weekend.

Alabama and USC will open the season once again, with a meeting announced for 2020 in Arlington on Wednesday. It will mark the second time in four seasons that these two will play each other in AT&T Stadium — in 2016, the Tide crushed the Trojans during Week 1, with a 52-6 blowout.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to open another season at the AdvoCare Classic in 2020,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said in a statememnt. “Our team and our fans have always enjoyed playing in North Texas and AT&T Stadium is a fantastic competitive environment. This event has always been first-class with the intensity of a bowl game. We are also pleased to have the chance to once again face USC, and we look forward to a great game.”

That game was also a revenge game of sorts for then-Alabama OC Lane Kiffin — remember how USC fired him on an airport tarmac in 2013 and everything? Good times! Before the game, Kiffin was passing out candy to heckling USC fans. After, he dapped up a whole line of his former Trojans, too.

Jerry World hasn’t exactly been kind to USC in the past, either. There was the Alabama blowout, and at the end of last season, the Trojans lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Cotton Bowl 24-7.

Meanwhile Alabama has won three times in the venue, with the aforementioned 2016 game, a 35-17 Wisconsin victory in 2015, and a 41-14 win over Michigan in 2012.

Despite how the game two years ago went, this still should be a good matchup for USC, as Conquest Chronicles points out:

2020 would be a decent time for the Trojans to play Alabama as the Trojans will likely have a seasoned quarterback in JT Daniels and more questions being answered. Also USC is loaded with talent from the 2018 recruiting class.

This should be an exciting way to open the 2020 season, and it’s only a couple years away.