Rivalry, in college football terms, doesn’t end when the clock hits 0:00. Rivalry doesn’t cool down when the season ends.
Rivalry is Alabama and Auburn fans getting in fistfights, knife fights and gunfights after Iron Bowls. Rivalry is Sunday dinners ruined by seething, simmering what-ifs left over from Saturday. Rivalry is workplace ribbing between opposing fans that verges on harassment the week of the big game, and bet settle-ups that veer close to fireable offenses afterward. Rivalry is a child declaring their independence from their bleed-Crimson bloodline by wrapping themselves in Volunteer orange.