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SEC rivalries grouped in tiers.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:02 pm
Tier 1: Alabama - Auburn, LSU - Florida, Auburn - Georgia, Florida - Georgia
These schools are good across the board in athletics and usually have a strong rivalry regardless of the sport. These are also strong, dated rivalries
Tier 2: Alabama - Tennessee, Mississippi State - Ole Miss, Tennessee - Florida, Georgia - Tennessee
These rivalries may be storied and may consist of historically good programs, but due to a lack of recent success by some of these schools, these rivalries have suffered a bit.
Tier 3: LSU - Texas A&M, Kentucky - Tennessee, LSU - Arkansas, Alabama - LSU, Vanderbilt - Tennessee
Some of these aren’t “storied” rivalries and have kind of developed over the past 10 years. All of them have potential if they continue to heat up.
These schools are good across the board in athletics and usually have a strong rivalry regardless of the sport. These are also strong, dated rivalries
Tier 2: Alabama - Tennessee, Mississippi State - Ole Miss, Tennessee - Florida, Georgia - Tennessee
These rivalries may be storied and may consist of historically good programs, but due to a lack of recent success by some of these schools, these rivalries have suffered a bit.
Tier 3: LSU - Texas A&M, Kentucky - Tennessee, LSU - Arkansas, Alabama - LSU, Vanderbilt - Tennessee
Some of these aren’t “storied” rivalries and have kind of developed over the past 10 years. All of them have potential if they continue to heat up.
This post was edited on 4/19/19 at 2:23 pm
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Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:04 pm to Fives
Not a bad rating system but the lsu/a&m one is heating up and getting good
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:07 pm to Fives
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Georgia - Florida
It's Florida - Georgia
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:07 pm to Fives
If I was 10 yrs old, I’d say Vandy/ Tennessee.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:07 pm to Fives
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Some of these aren’t “storied” rivalries and have kind of developed over the past 10 years
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Vanderbilt - Tennessee
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:08 pm to Fives
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Tier 2: Alabama - Tennessee, Mississippi State - Ole Miss, Tennessee - Florida, Georgia - South Carolina
what?
I know SC fans are going to joke about how we wish to be their rivals, but this "rivalry" doens't belong anywhere near tier 2. Outside of about a 4-5 year period when 1)SC was actually good nationally 2)they had spurrier as coach, this hasn't really been any sort of rivalry at all.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:22 pm to Fives
This list is bad and so are you
This post was edited on 4/19/19 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:25 pm to Fives
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Kentucky - Tennessee
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Some of these aren’t “storied” rivalries and have kind of developed over the past 10 years. All of them have potential if they continue to heat up.
We need to bring the beer barrel back. If we could win a couple of times in a row it would be more interesting. Theres still hatred though
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:46 pm to Fives
I don't see South Carolina and Missouri anywhere on that list. I guess that indicates their relevance in the overall scheme of things,
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:54 pm to Fives
If everyone is Tennessee's rival and they are wearing prison orange... does that make their rivals the police or the prison guards.
-deep thoughts with yatesdog
-deep thoughts with yatesdog
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:55 pm to Fives
The egg bowl has to be tier 1 bro.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 2:56 pm to Fives
It will never be a tier one rivalry, but MSU/AU has been interesting the past 10 years in football and baseball.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 3:02 pm to Fives
As far as pure hatred MSU-OM in all sports is tier 1. Success doesn’t diminish that at all.
Honestly the most heated egg bowls were when neither team was very good because we had nothing else to be happy about other than beating our rival
Honestly the most heated egg bowls were when neither team was very good because we had nothing else to be happy about other than beating our rival
Posted on 4/19/19 at 3:10 pm to Fives
I see LSU listed in several tiers, but don't see LSU-Auburn. Kinda funny how that's the case, as that's been a great series. But there's just not a lot of animosity, more just respect
Posted on 4/19/19 at 3:13 pm to Fives
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Tier 2: Alabama - Tennessee, Mississippi State - Ole Miss, Tennessee - Florida, Georgia - Tennessee
One of these is not like the others, the level of hate of the egg bowl alone makes it tier one. Yes, both schools have historically sucked at football, but there is no doubt the Egg Bowl is a tier 1 rivalry in the conference. The teams hate each other like no other two schools except maybe Bama-AU.
It is also the longest-running rivalry in the conference and one of the longest running in the country. That is just football, you can move to baseball where the two teams are good and there is real hate there.
There is a reason there is a thing called an Egg Bowl thread on this board.
This post was edited on 4/19/19 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 4/19/19 at 5:44 pm to Fives
Pretty solid list, but LSU aTm is quickly approaching tier 2 if not tier 1.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 5:46 pm to Fives
I hereby christen the LSU-A&M rivalry as the Baw Bowl.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 5:46 pm to Fives
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These schools are good across the board in athletics and usually have a strong rivalry regardless of the sport. These are also strong, dated rivalries
Regardless of sport? Alabama Basketball or baseball?
:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Posted on 4/19/19 at 6:36 pm to Fives
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Tier 3: LSU - Texas A&M, Kentucky - Tennessee, LSU - Arkansas, Alabama - LSU, Vanderbilt - Tennessee
Does anybody know which one of these games CBS has seen fit to broadcast in primetime every year since 2011?
Posted on 4/19/19 at 6:36 pm to Fives
I don't know about rivalry, but I think my favorite LSU series is the one with Auburn. Lots of great games and usually pretty evenly matched.
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