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The 2024 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blazers were led by Trent Dilfer in his second year as the head coach. The Blazers played their home games at Protective Stadium, located in Birmingham, Alabama.
UAB football began with the play of an organized club football team in 1989. [5] After two years competing as a club football team, on March 13, 1991, UAB President Charles McCallum and athletic director Gene Bartow announced that the university would compete in football as an NCAA Division III team beginning in the fall of 1991, with Jim Hilyer serving as the first head coach.
The UAB Blazers football team, representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has had 14 American football players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the university began its football program in 1991. [1] This includes two players taken in the first round, of which the highest pick was Bryan Thomas at 22nd overall in 2002.
A radio appearance by UAB's Trent Dilfer and a social media post from Tulane coach Jon Sumrall shed some light on college football's NIL landscape. Trent Dilfer discussed UAB's NIL woes without ...
The three teams that joined the ACC before the college football season were SMU, Stanford and Cal. The Mustangs became an official member of the ACC on July 1 while the Cardinal and Golden Bears ...
April 29, 2024 at 1:22 PM. UAB became the first Division I football team to join a fledgling organization that hopes to represent athletes as college sports moves to a more professional model.
Already a participating member of Conference USA in other sports, on November 13, 1996, UAB was admitted to the league as a football playing member effective the 1999 season. [7] The longest tenured head coach of the Blazers was Watson Brown who led UAB for 12 seasons between 1995 and 2006. [8]
The football program returned in 2017 after a two-season hiatus. [3] UAB began competing in intercollegiate football in 1991. [1] Entries on these lists tend to be dominated by more recent players, however, as regular seasons expanded from 11 to 12 games in 2002-03 and permanently in 2006.