If you want to watch Alabama football A-Day 2025, you will have to make your way to Bryant-Denny Stadium. Otherwise, you’ll be out of luck.

The Crimson Tide will not have any kind of television or streaming broadcast for the annual spring event.

A year ago, coach Kalen DeBoer’s first spring game at was broadcast on ESPN. The year prior, it was broadcast on SEC Network+. In 2022, ESPN+ broadcast the game. In 2021, ESPN showcased the event on its main channel.

The practice is set to last for about 90 minutes.

Why the change, getting rid of a broadcast or stream? It follows a recent trend to college football spring games as we knew them.

With the transfer portal set to open for a week on Wednesday, April 16, tampering remains a paramount concern. Broadcasts can be a way for opposing teams to see which players they might want to try and land in the transfer portal. There are other reasons coaches have cited, too, including prompting more people to attend in person or not running an actual game, making a need for a broadcast moot.

Alabama is far from alone in eliminating a way to watch the game. Clemson won’t broadcast its spring game live. Georgia won’t. Michigan won’t. Auburn won’t have a live broadcast on TV either, but the Tigers will include a radio broadcast of the practice.

Some programs aren’t even holding spring games or spring events at all. Alabama won’t play a game. It will instead be a practice, like Auburn and many others who have ditched the previous format of a game.

“It’s really, to me, not even about the portal concern that I know everyone makes it out to be,” DeBoer said in late March. “It’s just that we’re really out there. We ran a lot of reps (Thursday), but we were very specific and sometimes you almost had to stop things to get the right groups of people, matchups and things like that, to have a quality rep for all 22 guys that are on the football field. That practice-type environment is something that I think best accomplishes both things for the fans that we want to do with the A-Day, and also for our football team to utilize a practice.”

Alabama is also dealing with a long-list of injuries. Most of the tight ends are out with injuries. Expected returning starters such as Domani Jackson, Keon Sabb and others are out as well.

DeBoer has stressed the value in having a controlled environment, but keeping the event in some fashion was a priority to him.

“I think it’s really important for our guys to get in front of fans,” DeBoer said. “I remember a year ago when we came out, you know this year we got 18 new freshmen and then we also have some transfers and this is their first time in Bryant-Denny with people, so I think that’s a huge benefit for us. I remember seeing some guys a little bit like ‘Wow,’ you know, eyes wide open, so that’s a huge benefit for us.”

How to watch Alabama football A-Day 2025: Attend in person

TV: None

Streaming: None

Attendance: Free of charge to all fans.

A-Day time, date: Noon CT, Saturday April 12

Walk of Fame ceremony: 10 a.m. CT at Denny Chimes

Walk of Champions: 11:35 a.m. CT

Where to enter stadium: Gates 14-17, 21-24, 34 and 47-53

Parking: Free parking, starting at 7 a.m.

Nick Kelly is an Alabama beat writer for Follow him on X and the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X and Instagram.