For Alabama and Auburn fans, the Iron Bowl is a dish best served cold.
This rivalry is fueled by passion, intensity, bragging rights and the preconceived understanding of how one institution is better than the other. Lumped in the middle of Thanksgiving, National Football League action and Black Friday – for those willing to fight for early Christmas gifts – fans of the Crimson Tide (especially UA students) relish this game for the expletives added in the song “Dixieland Delight” and showing Tiger fans that they have to catch up to the standard.
As for Auburn University, its fan base proudly reminds Alabama that 10 of the last 18 Iron Bowls have gone in the way of the Tigers since 2000.