Two country music stars will join SEC Nation’s live Athens broadcast ahead of Saturday’s Georgia–Alabama game. Georgia will host Alabama at Sanford Stadium on Saturday and the SEC Network confirmed on Wednesday that country stars Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean will join “SEC Nation” live from Athens.

Alabama football has all kinds of compelling SEC matchups on the schedule over the next four seasons. Here are the five most interesting to us, besides the Iron Bowl.

Alabama football has its protected SEC rivalries for each of the next four college football seasons, a source with knowledge of the schedule confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.

The SEC’s new scheduling model leaves ten classic rivalries without annual protection, sparking concern over tradition and the future of conference battles.

After being a team that lost whatever postseason game it was in most of the time, Michigan football now has three straight victories in bowl season. Two of those came in the 2023 College Football Playoff with wins over Alabama and Washington, and then in the 2024 ReliaQuest Bowl, again, against Alabama.

Ty Simpson knows Alabama football vs. Georgia is not just any other game. And that reality is not one the Crimson Tide quarterback is shying away from. It’s exciting, Simpson said. It’s why he came to Alabama in the first place.

When Kirby Smart and Georgia last saw Alabama football’s offense, Jalen Milroe was running the show at quarterback for the Crimson Tide. Milroe and UA beat the Bulldogs in Tuscaloosa, on a borderline miraculous catch by Ryan Williams late in the fourth quarter.

Auburn’s traditional rivalries with Georgia and Alabama are preserved, and an annual matchup with Vanderbilt will occur for the next four seasons, the Southeastern Conference announced Tuesday.