ESPN: Alabama-LSU tops the national rivalry list

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oh christ



and christ is lowercase for a reason

OH LAWD HERE WE GO

The game doesn't have many title implications this year. Iron bowl is pretty much all that matters. If Alabama loses they still need to lose to Auburn, and If LSU wins they need Auburn to beat Bama and lose to someone else, and they need a scenario to work out where they win a 3 or 4 team tie breaker. Since divisional record is the first tiebreaker, they might have a shot after all.

This is going to rustle some jimmies and I don't know why.

We must be playing this week.

No poll of fans...just one writer's opinion. And then he proceeds to contradict himself.

"The animosity and disdain that seeps into every major rivalry isn't really there for this one. Sure, there was the Saban storyline that lingered for a few years because he's coached and won a national championship at both schools, but the loathing between players and fans in other rivalries really doesn't exist here."

Then it isn't a rivalry.

"No, this game's winner is looking for bigger, more important awards, such as a division title and national championship."

So is the winner of the Bama-Chattanooga game. LSU has very little chance of winning the West, and no chance of getting to the BCS. According to this standard, Bama-LSU isn't even remotely close to being as big of a rivalry game as Alabama-Auburn.

So even according to the author himself, this game fails to meet the standards of being a rivalry game.

Very few Bama fans consider LSU a rival.

So we change the "greatest rivalry" list every 5 years now?

Noted.