Well, folks, here we have it... We stand at the precipice (that's another word for edge, y'all)...we stand at the precipice of the most heated rivalry in all of college football. To hell with Michigan-Ohio State, forget about the Longhorns and Sooners. No, when measuring the level of pure hate and vitriol that flows between two football programs 365 days a year, there simply isn't another rivalry that can muster the kind of venom that is shared by Alabama and Tennessee.
Poets have opined on it (ala "they lowdown, they dirty, they some snitches..."), bards have written songs about it (I can't help but feel that Rammer Jammer was originally penned as a slight to our toothless neighbors from more northerly latitudes.