Paul Finebaum on Alabama 2024 schedule: Nick Saban’s ‘looking around for a drink’

There are plenty of great matchups in the 2024 SEC schedule.

None is bigger than Alabama-Georgia, Paul Finebaum says.

The analyst made the point during the SEC Network’s coverage of the eight game-conference schedule reveal on Wednesday night.

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“This is really the headliner,” Finebaum said. “We are talking a lot about Oklahoma and Texas, and we should be, but, nationally, people are saying Georgia and Alabama are playing sometime during the season, and we don’t know when.

“When that game is will be critical. It will be the game of the day. It will be the game of the year. Furthering the point earlier about the SEC coming under criticism for not going to nine, that one game shuts it up. Because what we are talking about is the CFP, and they are going to have an impossible time penalizing the SEC’s two best teams. That game speaks for itself.”

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The Crimson Tide will host Auburn, Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina in 2024, while hitting the road for LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

“I don’t know what Nick Saban’s doing tonight, but I’m sure he is looking around for a drink,” Finebaum said. “His problems just got ratcheted up if you can’t find a quarterback.”

The 2024 slate also includes Wisconsin of the Big Ten.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.