Bama tends to avoid scheduling games north of Mason-Dixon. It is a fact. It isn’t just Bama. Lots of warm climate teams do that. Are they “afraid?” I wouldn’t say that. Like Knute wrote, it is more about maximizing advantages. And, contrary to protestations, I do think weather is a part of it. At least in scheduling anything after September. If you have a team of athletes mostly from warm climates, I think you don’t like the prospect of playing north when it might be very cold. And up north you’ll even get below freezing temps in October occasionally. Make what you want of it . . . I don’t personally think it is that big of a deal. I do reject the idea that it happens because northern schools won’t schedule Alabama. What I find most bizarre about the thread is the almost hysterical reactions.