Alabama and Michigan split the previous two meetings in Tampa, with the Wolverines winning 28-24 in the 1988 Hall of Fame Bowl and the Crimson Tide scoring a 17-14 victory in the 1997 Outback Bowl.

TAMPA — Their rivalry is abbreviated, and relatively brief. Alabama-Michigan was spawned in the hair-band era, not the ...

Both of those games were played at Tampa/Houlihan’s Stadium, the original home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Here’s a look back at those two games: Alabama was very much an up-and-down ...