2262, Bama seldom playing true road OOC games goes back pretty far. Before the 2011 game at Penn State that ELA mentioned, you have to go back to 2002 and the Mike Shula era, when Bama played OU in Norman. There was a 2000 game at UCLA, and then you've got to go back to 1990 and a game at Memphis.
Bama is great and Saban is--it seems clear to me--the greatest ever. But the scheduling history shows that--for almost 30 years--true road OOC games have been few and far between.
first, this will be my last post strictly on bama in the wisky offseason thread. sorry badger fans.
1990 @ sw louisiana (no idea why we played them there, but we did)
1991 @ memphis (you had wrong year)
1992 @ tulane (part of a series, 93-94)
1996 @ nc state (part of a series, 95)
so you've got:
1990 - true road game, sw louisiana
1991 - true road game, memphis
1992 - true road game, tulane
1993 - return trip in h/a series, tulane home game
1994 - again tulane at home, maybe it was 2 for 1, don't know. but no true road game.
1995 - home game vs nc state, part of h/a series
1996 - true road game, nc state
1997 - no road game, no series
1998 - no road game, no series
1999 - no road game, no series
2000 - @ ucla, part of series
2001 - home vs ucla, part of series
2002 - @ ou, part of series
2003 - home v ou, part of series
2004 - no road game, no series
2005 - no road game, no series
2006 - no road game, no series
2007 - neutral game, vs fsu (jacksonville)
2008 - ... most everyone knows the drill from here
so since 1990, there's 2 periods of 3 year where we didn't either have a true road game or a series going, or playing a top team in a neutral game. btw, both periods were during our probation years. not sure it intentional or coincidental. 30 years, only 6 without a series or good ooc game. not to bad. and really, it goes a lot further back than just 30 years.