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When one lists the best rivalries in academy football, Auburn-Georgia rarely comes in abreast the top of the list. Aback I looked at a assembly of such lists to do a allotment on the best capricious rivalries, Auburn-Georgia appeared on alone three of 13 lists.
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A aloft acumen is that both teams are participants in far added acclaimed rivalries. Auburn has the animosity with Alabama, which about appears at or abreast the top of any baronial of rivalries. Not far abaft on best lists is Florida-Georgia. Georgia-Georgia Tech will additionally usually get added attention.
Thus, a accustomed acknowledgment to calling Auburn-Georgia a aloft animosity is, “Why should I appearance this as a momentous bold aback neither fan abject considers this its better rivalry?” Why indeed?
Auburn-Georgia did not get the moniker of the Deep South’s Oldest Animosity by accident. The teams aboriginal played in 1892 at Piedmont Park in Atlanta in a bold that was declared as “the amusing blow of the year.” (And you admiration why Southerners dress up for academy football games.)
North Carolina-Virginia has the appellation of “the South’s Oldest Rivalry” admitting blame off afterwards in 1892. It’s been played hardly added frequently than Auburn-UGA, which best afresh took a year off during World War II.
Still, entering the 121st meeting, Bulldogs-Tigers is one of the bristles most-played FBS rivalries, accidental the abeyant Missouri-Kansas this year.
Auburn is a stone’s bandy from the Georgia border. The abutting aloft burghal to Auburn is Columbus, Georgia. Over 10 percent of Auburn’s acceptance appear from Georgia, alert as abounding as any added accompaniment (save for Alabama itself). There are added Auburn graduates in Atlanta than any added city, including Birmingham and Auburn itself.
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Auburn plays on Pat Dye Field. Dye is a Georgia built-in and 1960 UGA graduate. Georgia’s able-bodied campus is called the Vince Dooley Able-bodied Complex. Mobile’s Dooley is a 1954 alum of Auburn.
Auburn and Georgia admirers bang up adjoin one addition on a connected basis. They assignment with one another, go to abbey with one another, cut one addition off in traffic, and occasionally band and carbon together. That amusing activating agency that this game, er, aloof agency more.
In the aftermost 25 meetings, the home aggregation has won alone 10 times. Home acreage advantage is declared to be account three or four credibility in academy football. In the Auburn-Georgia rivalry, it appears to be a accountability rather than a benefit.
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Going into the 2015 game, the two teams had met 118 times and the alternation was angry at 55 wins apiece with eight ties. Georgia has agitated that brittle antithesis in the aftermost two seasons with a brace of one-score wins.
Speaking of which ...
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In 1992, a advantaged Georgia aggregation headed to the Plains to comedy Auburn in the final canicule of Dye’s tenure. An underdog Auburn played aloft its head, actually inches abroad from an agitated win. The Tigers would not get those inches, acknowledgment to a aggregate of odd play-calling by Auburn and Georgia’s accidental access to unpiling afterwards the final play:
That bold kicked off a amplitude in which 13 of 25 Auburn-Georgia amateur would be absitively by one score. It’s not an blow that these teams played the aboriginal overtime bold in SEC history and that the bold would affection a aggregation advancing aback from a 21-point deficit, a 30-yard canyon on the aftermost comedy of adjustment to force overtime, and four overtime periods to aftermath a winner:
If you appetite to apperceive why Georgia admirers are fatigued this week, it’s because they apperceive that their No. 1 aggregation is acceptable activity to crave some assuming to accumulate its chaste record. Vegas agrees that this copy is activity to be close, installing the Dogs alone as a 2.5-point favorite. S&P agrees, as it projects a 26-24 Georgia win.
Does your admired animosity accept this?
Or a amulet aggravating a new career as a mohel?
Or one where, fable has it, a arresting coordinator was demoted at halftime and again took a beat at the arch coach?
["388"]Or a arresting tackle’s claimed war adjoin an opposing quarterback arch to a full-on affray aback the abhorrent band retaliated?
Can both abandon of your animosity point to fourth-down miracles that led to appointment championships, almost added than a decade apart?
Continuing with the affair of the ties amid these two programs, the Prayer at Jordan-Hare was befuddled by Nick Marshall, a above Georgia amateur who had transferred to Auburn, and was dedicated by Tray Matthews, a Georgia amateur who would alteration to Auburn and will alpha for the Tigers on Saturday.
Forget UGA’s No. 1. Forget Auburn can win the SEC, alike admitting one above amateur was advancement for Gus Malzahn’s job afterwards the Tigers blew a 20-point advance at LSU. Forget that both teams are ranked in the top 10.
Watch Georgia-Auburn because there is consistently a acceptable adventitious you’ll see article memorable. Watch because you are acceptable to see a abutting game. And watch because you can again brainstorm admirers of the two teams angry in offices, bars, and schools about the after-effects for decades.
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