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Posted: 8/24/2010 1:26:49 PM EDT
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/feed/2010-08/alabamaflorida
He tried to play the diplomat, deftly dancing around the answer and avoiding the reality of the situation. Alabama has a new most important game on the schedule. And so does the rest of college football. "The Florida game," Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban says, "is important because of where the two teams have been the last couple of years." And where they're headed for the next decade. Move over, Texas-Oklahoma. Step aside, Michigan-Ohio State and Florida State-Miami and any other rivalry game of the previous decade. "We thought about Florida from Day 1 last year," Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy says. Look, any self-respecting, dyed-in-the-houndstooth wool Alabama fan knows the season begins and ends with beating that cow school across the state. But for the first time in just about ever, Auburn and the Iron Bowl—the most bitter, all-consuming rivalry in the sport—no longer is the be-all, end-all for Alabama. Now it's facing Florida, a matchup that the past two seasons has come in the SEC championship game, pitting No. 1 vs. No. 2 with a spot in the BCS championship game on the line. Just in case this game needed more juice, the Tide provided it after last year's 32-13 thumping of the Gators: Alabama players mocked the Gator chomp in the closing seconds, and Tide fans cheered when Florida legend Tim Tebow was shown on the big screen at the Georgia Dome—tears rolling down his face. This fall, Alabama and Florida will play in the regular season October 2 at Tuscaloosa, setting up the potential for a rematch in the SEC title game. What's better than the new greatest rivalry in college football? The greatest rivalry played twice. ... < The rest of the article is at the link above. Annoying/loud pop-ups! Mute beforehand unless your filter will catch them. >  |
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Posted: 8/25/2010 3:42:35 PM EDT
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Ummm no. Great game for sure, and it will mean more as far as standings than most if not all other games this year as well as last but as far as most bitter rivalry...OSU/Michigan is much bigger than that will ever be. The article said OSU/Michigan was last decade's rivalry....sure, whatever. It has been a huge rivalry for a hell of a lot longer than a decade.
Everyone mocks Florida's gator chomp. Not enough get to though...  I know I'll be watching that game, but it's not THE game. I seriously look forward to O-H-I-O and a sea of scarlet dominating Ann Arbor again. |
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Posted: 8/25/2010 3:50:04 PM EDT
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Who?
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Posted: 8/26/2010 5:41:22 AM EDT
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Quoted: Who? You know, these guys...   |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 9:04:45 PM EDT
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I read that article. It's just sports-writers trying to make it something that it's not. Yes, Florida is a major competitor in the SEC. But not a "rivalry". We don't play every year or have the history that we do with Tennessee or Auburn. Florida will never be like "the third Saturday in Oct." or the "Iron Bowl" for Alabama. We respect them as the other "big kids on the block" at the moment. But 5,10,15 years from now, we're just 2 teams competing in the same conference on the other side.
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Posted: 8/29/2010 12:13:40 PM EDT
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Florida's rivals are Florida State and Georgia.
Alabama's rivals are Auburn and Tenn. THE rivalry is OSU vs Michigan(ten year war anyone?). END OF STORY! |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 6:15:16 PM EDT
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Florida's rivals are Florida State and Georgia. Alabama's rivals are Auburn and Tenn. THE rivalry is OSU vs Michigan(ten year war anyone?) Army - Navy. END OF STORY! fixed for accuracy 
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Posted: 9/14/2010 6:05:13 PM EDT
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Hardly news...I've always tuned in whenever Bama plays UF. Anyone remember the 1999 game?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7bo88G640 |
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