Alabama and LSU play this weekend. Of course, Nick Saban once patrolled the sidelines in East Lansing, and plucked Mark Dantonio from Kansas to start his track of hating Michigan in the mid-'90s. Les Miles is a Michigan graduate with a complicated relationship to his alma mater. Together, the two have extended some of the faintest echoes of the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry down south: two SEC juggernauts rooted in old-school ideas.
But lately, one of college football's most glamorous yearly games has become one-sided. The Tide are on a four-game winning streak, with the last Tiger victory occurring on this day in 2011.