There are some really intriguing matchups in the SEC/BIG 12 Challenge.
You get to see a battle of hillpeople schools with excellent basketball coaches, as Cal’s Kentucky Wildcats face Huggy Bear’s West Virginia Mountaineers. Two long, athletic squads face off when Rick Barne’s Tennessee Volunteers plays the Iowa State Cyclones. Then you have the Georgia Bulldogs and Kansas State Wildcats playing for the right to bore everyone into submission.
And, of course, you have the Crimson Tide, with its new-look class, having a fantastic mid-season test of how far the program has come, as Alabama hosts one of its multi-sport intersectional rivals, the Oklahoma Sooners (admit it, the past decade or so, they’ve been an intersectional rival: football, softball, gym.