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Tommy Tuberville to attend Alabama-Georgia game with Donald Trump, Katie Britt
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Tommy Tuberville was once quite used to being at Alabama football games and back in those days the Crimson Tide were public enemy No. 1.
That’s back when Tuberville was the head coach at Auburn, where he led the Tigers from 1999-2008 before moving on to coach at Texas Tech and Cincinnati. Then Tuberville moved into the political world, becoming a US Senator for the state of Alabama. On Saturday night, Tuberville’s 2 worlds will collide when he attends the titanic Alabama-Georgia showdown in Tuscaloosa with fellow Alabama senator Katie Britt and former president Donald Trump.
Alabama senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville will be with former President Donald Trump at the Alabama-Georgia football game Saturday in Tuscaloosa. #RollTide pic.twitter.com/mzflqHhmPp
— Alabama Crimson Tide | AL.com (@aldotcomTide) September 24, 2024
It was reported a little over a week ago that Trump would attend the matchup of SEC behemoths, which wasn’t a shock, considering Trump has routinely attended high-profile college football games in recent years.
But the Tuberville dynamic is dripping with irony, with Tuberville’s longtime connection to Auburn. Interestingly, Tuberville’s time on the Plains just barely overlapped with that of Nick Saban, who began his coaching run at Alabama in 2007. So, Tuberville and Saban overlapped by 2 years.
Tuberville’s Auburn team beat Alabama in 2007 in his 1st matchup with Saban, but Saban got revenge in 2008 when the Crimson Tide took care of the Tigers.
Tuberville finished his decade-long tenure at Auburn with a winning record against Alabama, going 7-3.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
