The Best Rivalry in College Football

September 07, 2006 by
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It's about time for the football season to begin which means there are many topics up for debate. In an earlier article I tackled the topic of why College Football is better than NFL. Now that we've established that College Football
 is better than the NFL the next topic to talk about is which rivalry is the best in college football. A lot of people will have you believe its Michigan vs. Ohio State. Michigan and Ohio State is a huge game every year, I'll give you that, but the best rivalry in college football isn't Michigan-Ohio State, it's Auburn-Alabama.

Ohio State and Michigan is a big rivalry, no doubt about it, but there are so many other options in Ohio and Michigan. There could be a Browns fan that could care less about Ohio State. Indians and Reds fans might not care about Ohio State. In Michigan it's even worse. The Pistons and Red Wings are both really popular, even the Tigers have good fan support. Maybe Michigan's football team is still the most popular but there are a whole lot of other options. In Alabama there are no pro teams. If you live in Alabama and you're a sports fan then there is a 99% chance your favorite sport is college football, there is no other option. In Alabama sports talk radio shows talk about Alabama-Auburn for 365 days out of the year, there is no basketball or baseball season. When you meet somebody for the first time in Alabama they usually say hello, introduce themselves and then as "Auburn or Alabama". The Alabama-Auburn game is so important in Alabama that when former Auburn player Fob James ran for governor in 1978, Alabama fans refused to vote for him because they didn't want an Auburn Tiger as governor.

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Posted on 04/24/2009 at 5:04:09 PM

Screw OSU VS Michigan, doesn't have anything compared to the Iron bowl, I will though give you credit that the OSU VS Michigan game does almost always have national championship implications(to bad they can never finish lmao!)The hate and passion with the Iron Bowl is unbelievable. Just face it in nearly ever facet the iron bowl out weighs the OSU VS Michigan game PERIOD!
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Posted on 04/24/2009 at 5:04:57 PM

This is ridiculous. You dont know anything about college rivalries especially football if you dont think that osu vs. mich is #1. You obviously dont know ohio and michigan people, so do NOT use a browns fan as a reference. Just to make my point very quickly, who are the coaches during the "Golden Years" for bama and Auburn? You can only name Bear Bryant. EVERYONE knows about Woody and BO. When OSU VS. Michigan in Columbus in 2006, the game was being touted on espn with a countdown 10 days in ADVANCE!!!! 10 days!!! When has that EVER happened between any other 2 teams or competeing forces in any sport?
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Posted on 02/11/2009 at 5:02:07 PM

Sorry Alabama folk, but your rivalry is minuscule if you look purely at the attention it gets nationwide AS WELL AS the stakes. As several other people have repeatedly said, MIchigan vs. OSU is almost always for the conference title and very often the last obstacle in front of a national championship game. We understand that your little in state rivalry in your sparsely populated state might mean a lot to you and the passion that can be felt in the air at game time might be more intense, but it just isn't as meaningful of a game all around. And as for the idiot who said that Michigan and OSU were community colleges when Auburn and Bama were putting football on the map, Auburn became a university in 1856 while UofM was founded in 1817 and OSU even earlier. What the heck is wrong with you? Alabama as a state is about as populated as Ann Arbor or Columbus on game day.
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Posted on 05/19/2008 at 2:05:16 PM

I am from Ohio but I have lived in Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia and I can tell you with all confidence that football is just as big in Ohio as it is in the South or anywhere else for that matter; especially in Columbus. If you are not a fan of the Buckeyes and you moved to Columbus you would get so sick of hearing Ohio State Football this and Ohio State Football that. It's everywhere you go from listening to the radio to seeing the billboards to talking with people on the job and at church.
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Posted on 03/26/2008 at 1:03:29 PM

You make a good point. Bama-Auburn just may be the best rivalry. Judging by the commentors, they simply don't know how big football is in the southeast. Newsflash: Southeastern football trounces any other region; northern boys, midwesterners, and certainly west coast.
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Posted on 03/05/2008 at 1:03:22 PM

Bryan 11/28/07 wrote, "you guys are all retards." You iron bowl fans are just jealous of the best rivalry in college football which is The Game: Ohio State vs Michigan and that's why you resort to name calling.
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Posted on 11/29/2007 at 10:11:00 AM

Go Bucks!!! 4 in a row over Big Blue!!!
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Posted on 11/29/2007 at 10:11:00 AM

The purpose of this thread is to discuss which rivalry is greater, not about which conference is greater. That being said the Big Ten is 8-6 against the SEC in bowl games over the last 5 years. I know Ohio State has not contributed to any of those wins but that's beside the point and the point is that Ohio State vs Michigan is the greatest college football rivalry hands down. Like someone posted earlier on this thread, hate alone does not make a rivalry although OSU/UM has plenty. The OSU/UM rivalry has been the cause of fights within family relationships but just because a rivalry has caused marriage break ups and other relationships to end does not make it the greatest rivalry. It just means that people don't have their priorities where they should be. The OSU/UM rivalry has meant more to college football because it not only has a lot of animosity between the schools and the fans, but it almost always decides who the Big Ten champ is and it has had more National Championship im
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Posted on 11/29/2007 at 9:11:00 AM

You're right...the Ohio State Michigan does almost always decide the the winner of the Big Ten....but who cares, thats only because the Big Ten is full of lousy football teams other then Oho State and Michigan....the Iron Bowl is definately a bigger rivalry and the only reason The Tide and Auburn aren't playing the game for an SEC title year in and year out is because the SEC has too many good teams and everyone always beats eachother...that was proven last year when Florida absolutely killed, they're too good nobody can beat them, Ohio State in the National Championship and then after the game, the Gators said they played 3 or 4 teams that year that could have beat Ohio State...enough said, the Big Ten doesn't hold a candle to the SEC and the Iron Bowl is the biggest rivalry in college football...Roll Tide Roll!!!
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Posted on 11/28/2007 at 7:11:00 PM

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