{"id":868947,"date":"2026-10-03T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868947\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:08:11","slug":"trump-says-he-will-attend-alabama-vs-georgia-college-football-game-at-bryant-denny-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868947\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will attend Alabama vs Georgia college football game at Bryant-Denny Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> announced Friday that he plans to attend next week\u2019s marquee college football matchup between No. 7 Alabama and No. 2 Georgia.<\/p>\n

Trump revealed his plans during a midterm campaign rally at the University of South Alabama<\/a> in Mobile. The president is expected to be at Bryant-Denny Stadium when No. 7 Alabama hosts No. 2 Georgia on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n

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Both teams are undefeated and considered national championship contenders. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET and air nationally on ABC.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and his wife Melania were in the house at Bryant-Denny Stadium to watch the Alabama vs. LSU game on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. (Staff Photo\/Gary Cosby Jr.)<\/p>\n

The SEC rivals met twice last season. Alabama earned a 24-21 regular-season victory in Athens before Georgia responded with a dominant 28-7 win in the SEC Championship Game. Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart improved to just 2-7 against the Crimson Tide with the conference title victory.<\/p>\n

Trump also attended the teams\u2019 memorable 2024 meeting in Tuscaloosa, when Alabama built a 28-point lead and held on for a 41-34 victory. He watched that game from a suite alongside several prominent Republican figures.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with former Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban as Trump takes the stage to address graduating students at Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama on May 01, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Next week\u2019s visit will mark Trump\u2019s third trip to Bryant-Denny Stadium for a football game. He also attended Alabama\u2019s 46-41 loss to LSU in 2019 and returned to the university to deliver its commencement address in May 2025.<\/p>\n

Trump has made frequent appearances at major sporting events throughout his second term. His Alabama visit will come only two weeks after he attended Texas\u2019 20-17 victory over Tennessee<\/a> at Neyland Stadium, where Air Force One performed a low-altitude flyover before kickoff.<\/p>\n

Trump also attended the College Football Playoff National Championship in January, Game 3 of the NBA Finals<\/a> in June and the FIFA World Cup final<\/a> in July, where he participated in the trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n

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FILE – President Donald Trump gestures as Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban (L) smiles at a ceremony honoring the college football playoff champion Crimson Tide on the South Lawn at the White House on April 10, 2018. (Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports)<\/p>\n

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In 2025, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl. He also appeared at the Daytona 500, the U.S. Open men\u2019s final, the Ryder Cup<\/a>, the Army-Navy game and multiple UFC events.<\/p>\n

Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and in legacy media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to attend next week\u2019s marquee college football matchup between No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1603,2205,12,399,6341,398,140712,396,397,259870,99],"class_list":["post-868947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-betting","tag-donald-trump","tag-football","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-fb","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}