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Who is Alabama's Biggest Football Rival?

Auburn? LSU? Tennessee? Ole Miss? Florida? Other? It's not as simple as you may think.

Would it surprise you to know that in the long history of Crimson Tide football one of their biggest rivals was Georgia Tech? It used to be a heated discord in which contests were annual events until 1963 when Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd made a fateful decision to withdraw his team from the SEC. Many older Bama fans still hold animosity towards the Yellow Jackets and their legendary coach. Alabama has played Georgia Tech 52 times in school history. That is more meetings than the Tide has had with Florida (39), Kentucky (39), Arkansas (26), Penn State (15), or South Carolina (15).