Saturday’s Alabama-LSU game has become the most important SEC football game this season, and it also one of the most important games of the season nationally because of its national-title implications.
The game’s “profile” of late has changed, to the point where Alabama-LSU now is one of the SEC’s best rivalries.
Here’s a look at our ranking of the top-five SEC rivalries, with input from four writers who have covered the SEC for a combined 120 or so years. As for the way we list the actual rivalry, it’s alphabetical.
T5. Alabama-Tennessee
Times played: 99
The buzz: This has lost some luster, though there still are a lot of Vols fans who consider the Tide to be Tennessee’s main rival.