With the Sun Belt Conference scheduled to release their official
2013 Conference schedule on next month. South Alabama may get an exciting home
schedule in 2013, which will feature some of the SBC top performers and 2013
SBC bowl teams.
South Alabama will be playing a five game non-conference
schedule and two of those games will be in Mobile, Alabama at Ladd Pebbles Stadium
with Kent State and Southern Utah. Kent
State was also a top 25 ranked team in 2012 and appeared in the Mobile’s
GoDaddy.com Bowl against Sun Belt Conference member Arkansas State where they
was defeated by the Red Wolves of Arkansas State.
There are a few news coaches that may be making their way to
Mobile as well to take on the Jaguars of South Alabama in the Sun Belt
Conference. South Alabama will also welcome to new members to the conference in
Texas and Georgia State. South Alabama suppose to open the 2013 season the
first weekend in September, but with defection in the SBC the Jags had to add
another non-conference game and they choose a competitive FCS team to open the
season on August 29.
I am also projecting that South Alabama will take on its
in-state conference rival Troy on Saturday, September 21, 2013. Hey I might be
wrong but a guess don’t hurt.
Here is a look at South
Alabama possible 2013 Schedule…..
8/29 – Southern Utah
9/7 – at Tulane
9/28 – at Tennessee
10/19 – Kent State
11/16 – at Navy
*Conference schedule *
at Troy
Arkansas State (Ladd Pebbles Stadium) Mobile, AL
at Texas State
Louisiana Lafayette (Ladd Pebbles Stadium) Mobile, AL
Louisiana – Monroe (Ladd Pebbles Stadium) Mobile, AL
at Georgia State
Western Kentucy (Ladd Pebbles Stadium) Mobile, AL
It’s also possible that South Alabama get two bye weeks this
fall, however that is not guaranteed. It
seems that the Jaguars have another competitive schedule as they did last year.
This year the difference is that the Jags are more experienced and have a lot more
talent to take to the field. Don’t count the Jags out in 2013. I believe that
the defense will create some problems for a lot of teams in the SBC and a few
in the non-conference schedule. South Alabama have brought on some talent from
Alabama to coach the defensive side of the ball, so it will be interesting to
see this new full FBS team compete for the Sun Belt Conference title and a post
season bowl game.
South Alabama is set to begin spring practice on February 28
and host it’s annual spring game on April 6, 2013 at Ladd Pebbles Stadium.
