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Loran Smith: Rivalry Games

This is the week for rivalry games in college football, although the landscape has changed in recent years with all the conference realignment that has taken place.

For years, I had the good fortune to attend a few celebrated rivalry games that were annual fixtures on the fall calendar: Oklahoma-Nebraska which no longer exists, Minnesota-Iowa, Army-Navy, Texas-Texas A&M, Clemson-South Carolina, Harvard-Yale, and of course, Georgia-Georgia Tech.

To make it to the aforementioned games, the schedule had to take place on a date other than Saturday after Thanksgiving when the Bulldogs played the Yellow Jackets.

Never did make it to the Iron Bowl in Birmingham, which in some years was played on Friday after the holiday.