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Alabama Coach Nick Saban leads defensive backs Dee Milliner (28) Robert Lester (37) to the field for the Mississippi State game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (Mark Almond/ malmond@al.com)

-- Alabama and Georgia Tech will have to wait a little longer to rejuvenate their historic rivalry.

The schools' scheduled home-and-home series, slated for 2019 in Tuscaloosa and 2020 in Atlanta, has been indefinitely postponed, an Alabama spokesman confirmed to

on Thursday. The uncertainty of how schedules will look as college football heads into the new, four-team playoff era makes it difficult to predict if the Crimson Tide and Yellow Jackets will be able to reschedule this series in the near future.

Georgia Tech and Alabama initially agreed to play each other in 2004 and were scheduled to do so in 2013 and 2014, but the Yellow Jackets requested in 2010 for it to be postponed. At the time, then-Georgia Tech athletic director

Dan Radakovich

said

With the postponement of this series, Alabama now has games against marquee, BCS opponents lined up through 2017. The Crimson Tide will respectively play Virginia Tech and West Virginia in Atlanta to open the 2013 and 2014 seasons, face Wisconsin in Dallas in 2015 and will begin a home-and-home series with Michigan State in 2016.

Alabama and Georgia Tech first faced each other in 1902 but haven't met since 1984. The Crimson Tide owns a 28-21-3 advantage over the Yellow Jackets.