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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.
UAB began its football program in the early 1990s. Jim Hilyer was the first head coach of the Blazers, coaching from 1991 to 1994. Beginning with the first NCAA sanctioned Division III football team in 1991, UAB joined Division I-AA in 1993 and moved to Division I-A in 1996, joining Conference USA in 1999.
On January 6, 1996, "Blaze", a friendly green dragon, was introduced at a basketball game. "Blaze" is considered a member of the spirit squads and appears at all football and basketball games. Blaze's head has appeared on the sides of UAB's football helmets since 1996, when the team moved up to Division I-A.
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.
WJOX (690 kHz, "Jox 3") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama.It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a sports format.WJOX is the Birmingham affiliate of the UAB Blazers Radio Network (baseball only), [3] the Tennessee Titans Radio Network and the Atlanta Braves Radio Network.
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.
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.
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]