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The Rivalry in Dixie: Hatred Renewed

One of the great things about college football are the rivalries. There’s just something to be said about two schools and two teams that have hated each other for generations going at it on the field. Every rivalry has its story.

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The household names of college football (read: Power 5) have mostly been in the same conference with the same teams for longer than most people have been alive. That’s the story with the best known rivalries such as Alabama-Auburn, Michigan-Ohio State, Cal-Stanford, you name it. Others have survived as annual non-conference match-ups, such as Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, USC-Notre Dame.