In 2013, Auburn hosted Alabama in the Iron Bowl to end all Iron Bowls.
For the first time since the divisional split in 1992, the nation's best college football rivalry served as the de facto SEC West championship game that season. You know how that went—Chris Davis ran 109 yards for a touchdown off a missed field goal as time expired to etch that game in college football history as the "Kick Six." Auburn went on to win the SEC championship and came within 13 seconds of the national title.
After Auburn survived a scare from Vanderbilt and Alabama shut out LSU in Week 10, we are headed full steam ahead toward a meeting between the two intrastate rivals with the same stakes.