Most times met as AP ranked opponents

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Sean Bean

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I bet you can't wait for football to start so you can start brainstorming more offseason thread ideas.

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it barely makes the top 5.

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It’s three games away from second place over the last 82 years

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It’s three games away from second place over the last 82 years

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and it'll only get worse as Tennessee continues its descent into the bottom tier of the SEC East.

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Hopefully I'm of use in-season.

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Do you cut grass or wash windows?

Also, I'm with you ... that surprises me about the UTk vs Bama series. Almost makes us feel as if we've been duped into thinking tsio is a big deal.

Seems like there should be no further discussion about keeping that a regular interdivisional permanent series so we should feel free to make schedule adjustments and swap division members accordingly.

Let Auburn come to the East, send Mizzou to the West. Make Auburn vs Bama each other's permanent interdivisional game and be done with it.

If you look at the UTk vs Bama thing ... it's just not that big of a deal anymore and, honestly, it's only UTk fans who are clinging to it so desperately.

Other East teams deserve more shots at the champs. If we take a moment and look at it that way then UTk is really being selfish. Not only that but they're not really holding-up their end of the bargin by giving Bama a competitive game ... and they really haven't this millennium for the most part.

Let's give some other teams in the East a shot at the champs. That's the American way.

Here's another way to look at it.

If we were talking Heavyweight Championships the way this tsio thing has been pawned off on the conference ... Muhammed Ali would have fought Carmine Acevedo three times over the years instead of Smokin' Joe Fraizier. What a travesty that would have been giving Carmine all those shots at the champ instead of Smokin' Joe.

Anyone remember Carmine The Ace Acevedo? Nah, I thought not. And that's pretty much what UTk is anymore.

Let's allow some real challengers from the East like UGA, SC and UF have some cracks at the champ during the regular season for a change.

Let's start a new trend ... #NoMoTSIO!

Pretty big talk from a fan of a team who has won absolutely nothing.

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almost makes us feel as if we've been duped into thinking tsio is a big deal.

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Rankings matter little in a true rivalry.

That's part of what makes rivalries so much fun.

David can knock off Goliath and have an entire year to crow about it.

Surely a South Carolina fan understands what I'm talking about.

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Time of year when teams play also affects rankings. Some rankings are earned, others at times early in the season are given by name recognition.

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Friend and I were just discussing. Florida/LSU and Florida/Tennessee are on there but no Florida/UGA which is one of the SECs premier rivalries (duh). I think a few factors are obviously UF wasn't elite until the 90s but also the WLOCP isn't played until either the last month of the season or the last weekend in october whereas Florida plays both Tennessee and LSU very early in the season when they're most likely to still hold a preseason ranking. So you're right, opponents that are faced earlier in the season are more likely to have more ranked matchups at gametime especially if it's a premier brand.

Kerry Von Erich was in Pink Floyd ?

What a talented guy !

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I realize the Iron Bowl wasn't played from 1908 to 1947. LSU and Bama didn't play from 1931 to 1943 and also didn't play in 1949, 1950, 1956 and again from 1959 to 1965.

But no denying Auburn has the better record as both rivalries have the same number of contests (82) but Auburn has 11 more wins over Bama than LSU does.

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Auburn won 7 times before the series ended in the early 1900's. The series restarted in 1948, so Auburn missed playing Alabama for almost 40+ years and missed some very good Alabama football decades. LSU,on the other hand,started playing Alabama after Alabama had become a national name......

Bama was bad in the 50s...