re: Who is your school's most natural rival?

All REAL rivalries are natural rivalries. It just develops for whatever reason and there is TRUE HATE ON BOTH SIDES THAT IS EQUAL. You can't stand them, They can't stand you, it means everything and is that way both ways. Gt- georgia, bama auburn, the egg bowl, aggie's-texas. During the 80s the press tried to make our game with penn state a rivalry. Just wasn't there.

Bamas natural rival is Auburn. A rivalry developed with Tennessee because they were actually close to us and would beat us time to time. We started to feel they were right on our heels and we prided ourselves as the team in the south not to overtaken by the vols. We opened up that gap in the 70s. We vacation in the smokies, lots of vols in alabama, border states. Auburn is instate, family members are fans of the other school, u see aubies every single day and have to converse with them. No way that was gonna miss rivalry status.