re: Is Bama/LSU a rivalry? It's taken me some time... but I now say yes.

Their own alumni on national TV couldn’t help but talk LSU during the broadcast

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Any one with an ounce of intelligence can read this board for one day and realize that Bama considers LSU a rival. For frick's sake, your posters were creating threads about LSU during the Tennessee football game, the SECCG, the CFP semifinal and National Championship game. There was as much talk from Bama posters Monday night about LSU as there was about Bama winning a national championship.

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That's because LSU posters stir it up and then point at Alabama posters and say, "you're infatuated with LSU".

Having said that, I've always acknowledged LSU as a rival. They were 3rd until the 2000s, then LSU became the only program in the SEC and sometimes the only one in the country who could match up with Alabama physically. Even though Bama dominated LSU in the win column, most of the games were very close and always physical. I guarantee than any Bama fan who has any sense and a trace of honesty would acknowledge that LSU was the top rival from 2009-2016. Then they dropped off a bit til 2019. IMO, again LSU along with a UGA, a less frequent opponent, will be Alabama's primary rival for the foreseeable future.

UT is by far hated the most (Fulmer); AU is the most annoying; LSU has been and looks to be again, the major threat.

But Bama is always having to fight off someone.

20s fight off Georgia Tech
30s fight off UT
40s fight off UT, UGA, MSU early in decade
50s Bama not much of threat, just 1 SEC title, 5 losing seasons
60s took throne away from OM, fight off LSU and UT
70s fight off LSU, UT, AU, UGA
80s second fiddle to UGA early, AU late. Only 2 titles
90s second fiddle to UF, UT. Only 2 titles, 1 NC
00s second fiddle to LSU, UF. Only 1 title, 1 NC
10s fight off LSU, UGA (distant 3rd)
20s probably fight off UGA and LSU, maybe UF a little