re: Greatest IB Victory

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Well, yeah. That is exactly why 1982 and 1985 are not on the list. No national importance.

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Who cares about national importance? How many Iron Bowls have there been since the renewal where the stakes were high for both teams? And of the ones that mattered, how many of the games were actually good? The 1971 and 1989 games were certainly not classics.

The 2010 Iron Bowl really didn't matter for both teams either. Even if Alabama would have won they still would have gone to the Capital One Bowl to face Michigan State. The 1994 Iron Bowl didn't mean squat to Auburn in terms of championships because they couldn't go to post-season play.

If you get right down to it, only the 2013 Iron Bowl qualifies. And, as good as that game was, there have been others that were certainly just as thrilling. The 1996 and 1997 Iron Bowls were both classics. As were the 1982, 1984, and 1985 games. The all-time greatness of a game isn't dependent on the stakes invested in the game. Many people regard the 1982 Stanford-Cal game to be one of college football's all-time greatest games and that game didn't matter for shite.