Alabama football: Crimson Tide makes it official, announces the opening of the season of 2012 will be against Michigan

Meet at the Cowboys at Texas Stadium
By MICHAEL CASAGRANDE
Special Ledger-Enquirer
Nick Saban Alabama football coach spilled the beans a few weeks ago so the announcement on Thursday was rather a formality.
The Crimson Tide officially recognized its agreement to play Michigan in 2012 at a meeting of the competencies of traditional college football season opening.
The new stadium in Arlington, Texas cowboys on September 1, 2012 site, game will be televised on ESPN or CBS, according to the UA press release. Playing time has yet to be determined, while the version had called a kickoff of prime - time.
It will be third neutral site starting from Alabama in a period of five years, beginning in 2008, when the tide played years back with back at Atlanta Georgia Dome against Clemson and Virginia Tech, respectively.A home with the San Jose State game opened the season 2010.Starter 2011 has been set, but is not expected to make a game site of neutral, with a road trip to Penn State, scheduled for next week.
Addition to play a game against an opponent renowned marquee, site-neutral games provide impetus for the involved schools recruitment.Programming of these games in talento-ricas as Texas and Atlanta areas is not a coincidence.
""It's exciting to announce two more tradición-ricos College football teams will meet in 2012,"au director Athletics Mal Moore said in the press release.""We have this huge respect for Michigan: your school, your pending tradition and its siguiente.Es an excellent opportunity for our student athletes and our comprehensive, apart from being a great benefit in the recruitment. yet program is another opportunity for our University exhibited on a national stage early in the season in a wonderful Stadium."
Reportedly, built at a cost of more than 1 billion dollars, the new Cowboys stadium opened last year and capacity for 80,000 spectators and has a screen of HDTV 160 by 72 feet which was the largest at the end of the world.
Alabama and Michigan have played three times, and the Wolverines have one advantage of 2-1. the most recent meeting came in 2000 Orange Bowl, where escaped Michigan with a 35-34 overtime victory in an extra point tidal lost.
The Wolverines have more victories in the history of college football (882), Alabama (797) occupies the eighth.

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