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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.
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 ]
Army will host Alabama Birmingham, East Carolina, Rice and Texas San Antonio in 2024 football season. FAU, North Texas, Temple, Tulsa on road slate.
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Protective Stadium, current venue of the Birmingham Bowl. The bowl marked the return of post-season football to the city of Birmingham, which previously hosted the Dixie Bowl from 1947 to 1948, the Hall of Fame Classic from 1977 to 1985 (which relocated to Tampa and became the Outback Bowl), and the All-American Bowl from 1986 to 1990 (which was canceled when the SEC Championship Game was ...
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.
The 2022 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a member of Conference USA (C-USA) during the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by interim head coach Bryant Vincent , who was coaching his first season with the team.