2012 Football Schedule
NORMAL – Retiring athletic director Betty Austin and 11th year head coach Anthony Jones has released the 2012 football schedule.
"This schedule is historic for us," Jones said. "We only have four home games; however, we play seven games in the state of Alabama and for the first time since I've been here, we play in or near the four major cities in the state.
"We open in Mobile, we play the Magic City Classic in Birmingham and we play Auburn outside of Montgomery. We have big games in all four of our major cities and since we're trying to recruit the state of Alabama, which will only help us."
The two non-conference contests include a date with Tuskegee University in Mobile, Alabama on September 1st to open the season and a trip to Auburn University on November 17th to close out the regular season.
"We start on the road with a nonconference game," Jones said. "That will give us a chance to get our feet wet before we start conference play."
"It's a good opportunity to play Auburn and make some money for our school and our program," Jones said.
This will be Betty Austin’s final football schedule as the athletic director at her alma mater.
"It's a pretty good schedule," Austin said. "I had hoped we could have played Southern earlier in the year. Southern is a big draw for us, but we had to make an adjustment because of the Auburn game. We're limited in that we only have to non-conference games, but to be able to play Tuskegee and Auburn in the same year is really good."
