Over the past 10 yrs, has LSU/Bama become the most "intense" rivarly in SEC FB?

I just see it as a big game, not really a rivalry.

why is this considered a rivalry game?

Iron bowl is a rivalry game. We use the word rivalry like the government uses the word terrorism. Just redefine that shite so that it fits our latest and greatest idea.

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LSU fans are desperate for a rival.

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Not really. LSU does not have a true rival and it will always be that way. Currently Bama, Auburn, Florida, and Arkansas are our rivals. Historically, Tulane and Ole Miss are our rivals.

Who cares.

Obviously the OP does. He should have put the quotation marks over "rivalry".

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Who cares.

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you mean outside of lsu fans...no one.

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Not really. LSU does not have a true rival and it will always be that way. Currently Bama, Auburn, Florida, and Arkansas are our rivals. Historically, Tulane and Ole Miss are our rivals.

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A&M is fresh off a tough break up, you could be their rebound rival.

Your timeframe is far too long. Since 2007, they've been pretty big divisional rivals. (In the more general sense, not the CFB-specific "rival" designation. LSU and Bama aren't "rivals" like AU/Bama.)

The past 10 years would be 03-12.

03: Bama wasn't shite
04: Bama wasn't shite
05: Bama was a paper tiger, the real Tigers shut down their divisional and national title hopes; this was just a big game, not really adding a lot to the series history other than a Tigers W
06: Bama wasn't shite
07: Saban Bowl I, this was legit
08: Saban Bowl II, also legit
09: LSU wasn't really shite (we weren't 03/04/06 Bama bad, but we weren't competitive either)
10: LSU still had an outside shot at the West title, Bama was still in the West hunt, national title implications were here and unlike in 05, both teams had been national champions more recently than the early 90s. Legit game
11: Game of the Century pt. I
11: Game of the Century pt. II
12: Basically see '10 all over again

I'd say over the past 6. 2007 onward. All contests since then have featured at least one team (often both) in the national title conversation, four national champions and five title game participants, six BCS bowl game participants, and the two coaches to lead their programs to national titles in the BCS era.

You have a case for the series being the most important in the conference over the past 6 years, not so much 10.

ETA: Forgot to finish that part. They're rivals in the more general sense, people participating in the same field frequently competing with one another for accolades and honorifics, but not in the college football specific sense. We're not rivals, just good programs in the same division with enough shared history to add a little intensity beyond your typical titular tilt.

As for the LSU rivals thing, I appreciate not having any hardcoded "rivals." The Third Saturday in October looks like a sad sack of shite right now. I would much much rather not be tied down to programs that might suck down the line (and would much rather other programs not be the same). If we HAVE to have a designated rival, then let it be Texas A&M or something, they don't have a designated rival at the moment either. But I don't want one. Let's just be a damn strong program that has other programs seeking it out for a fight instead of looking like the needledick in the room begging the other big guys to take him seriously.

Naaaaah, I would say only in the last six years.
Before that, the MulliGumpTeaBagNeck Skoal Juice Toothless Wonders had beaten us exactly once since last century.....

Nope. A huge game with huge implications, yes. A rivalry that does not make, however.