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Smitty’s Scrum: Birth of “The Border War”

The Auburn Tigers vs. the Georgia Bulldogs: the Oldest Rivalry in the South. These two universities have battled one another in athletic competition since the dawn of the Southeastern Conference, competing for supremacy in football, basketball, baseball, soccer, and softball. The fervor with which fans on either side of this contentious relationship relish defeating one another is almost unmatched in the world of sport.

For Auburn Hockey, this is not just another game. Even for a group that prides itself on physicality and a willingness to do the dirty work, the little things, playing the Bulldogs poses an entirely new level of challenge.