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The Alabama–Auburn football rivalry, better known as the Iron Bowl, [2] is an American college football rivalry game between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn University Tigers, both charter members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and both teams are located in the state of Alabama.
Rivalry: Alabama Crimson Tide November 23, 1996 Auburn Tigers 23 15 Alabama Crimson Tide: 24: Birmingham, Alabama: Legion Field: Iron Bowl: Alabama Crimson Tide November 30, 1996 1 Florida Gators 21 2 Florida State Seminoles: 24: Tallahassee, Florida: Rivalry: January 2, 1997 3 Florida Gators: 52: 1 Florida State Seminoles 20 New Orleans, Louisiana
Entering the 2013 Iron Bowl, Alabama and Auburn were ranked No. 1 and No. 4 respectively in the BCS rankings, making it only the second matchup in the history of the rivalry to feature two Top 5 teams, and the highest-ranked Iron Bowl ever. [35] It was also the first Iron Bowl in which both teams were playing for a berth to the SEC Championship.
The series that began in 1900 immediately will rank with the best of the SEC’s older ones — Alabama vs. Georgia, the Iron Bowl between Auburn vs. Alabama, the Egg Bowl featuring Ole Miss and Mississippi State, and the Florida-Georgia matchups in Jacksonville, long known as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
The Alabama–Auburn men's basketball rivalry is a men's college basketball rivalry [1] [2] [3] between the Auburn Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide. Though both schools are best known for their prestigious football programs, the deeply rooted rivalry between the two extends to basketball as well.
Rivalry is Alabama and Auburn fans getting in fistfights, knife fights and gunfights after Iron Bowls. Rivalry is Sunday dinners ruined by seething, simmering what-ifs left over from Saturday.
Several college football games and plays throughout its history have been given names by the media, football fans, and as part of a team's or rivalry's lore as a result of a distinctive play associated with the game, a unique outcome of or circumstance behind the game, the rivalry or undefeated nature of both teams, or for other reasons that make the game notable.
Then, there's the history. Although Alabama and Georgia have played many high-stakes games in the past decade, even that series doesn't measure up long term. Oklahoma and Texas have 10 AP national titles between them -– Oklahoma boasts seven and Texas has three. In each case, the winner in Dallas won the national championship.