Who Are the Gator's Top SEC Football Rivals?

by War Eagle Atlanta on Feb 12, 2009 12:28 AM EST Comment 22 comments

I'm preparing a thread over at sister SB Blog Track 'Em Tigers to determine who every team in the SEC ranks as their three biggest rivals and compare the cross-over. I'd like to know who Gator fans feel are their top three conference rivals, either current or past. Please help me out and vote in this poll and I'll compile all the results into a thread next week.

Thanks!

Greg

WEA-TET

Poll

Assuming your top conference rival is Georgia and your second is Tennessee, who do you vote for your third, either current or historic?

A) LSU

54 votes

B) South Carolina

12 votes

C) Alabama

15 votes

D) Auburn

18 votes

E) Kentucky

4 votes

103 votes | Poll has closed

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Alabama...

really?

When you are an Alabama fan you are expected to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because I want to.

by bammer on Feb 12, 2009 10:41 AM EST reply actions

Since the Championship game started, we've been the most common matchup.

by bdalebs on Feb 12, 2009 8:57 PM EST up reply actions

yeah but to consider us a rival

we gotta play every year…

When you are an Alabama fan you are expected to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because I want to.

by bammer on Feb 17, 2009 12:42 PM EST up reply actions

Are you saying that DA U isn't a rival to us?

by bdalebs on Feb 17, 2009 5:00 PM EST up reply actions

aren't we talkn about

conference rivals here? And also each teams 3 biggest rivals? Sure Bama and UF have a “rivalry” but not on the same level as you have with UT, UGA and evidently now LSU.

When you are an Alabama fan you are expected to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because I want to.

by bammer on Feb 17, 2009 8:24 PM EST up reply actions

LSU is more of a respectful rivalry.

On our end anyway. Not sure how distributing the other team’s quarterback’s number is respectful, unless they all wanted to congratulate him on the Heisman later in the year.

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by bdalebs on Feb 18, 2009 4:53 PM EST up reply actions

Just because you think a school is filled with jackasses, doesn’t make them a rival. The only time people in Gainesville think about Miami is baseball season or recruiting. Besides, this survey was SEC teams only.

mlmintampa
UF C/O 06

by mlmintampa on Feb 18, 2009 3:00 AM EST up reply actions

It's got to be LSU

We don’t even play Alabama and Auburn every year.
Kentucky hasn’t beat us in a long time and USC has only beaten us once in a long time.

LSU is, at least currently, our 3rd biggest conference rival.

by skigator93 on Feb 12, 2009 11:05 AM EST reply actions

I'm with LSU too

Maybe the older alumni will pick Aubie. Record wise, UF is 38-42-2 against Auburn and 29-23-3 vs. LSU. If I’m not mistaken, Auburn was a yearly rival for UF until realignment. As for Bama, Florida has only played them 34 times (14-20).
However, of the teams listed, I don’t Hate any of them. Auburn is mildly annoying and I don’t really have anything against Bama. If I lived outside the SEC, I would probably pick Florida and LSU to root for since they have the most exciting teams.

mlmintampa
UF C/O 06

by mlmintampa on Feb 12, 2009 11:14 AM EST reply actions

Auburn-Florida

Was a yearly rivalry, and when the conference realignment came, we chose you over keeping the annual series with the Vols. Then when they moved to a two-rotator from the opposite division, we were forced to choose Georgia as our lone permanent east game. It stinks, and Auburn really should be in the east, but that would cause an imbalance.

by War Eagle Atlanta on Feb 12, 2009 11:54 AM EST up reply actions

If Florida never had to play Auburn again, I think I would be OK with that.

by tbcook on Feb 12, 2009 2:06 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, that'd be nice considering the recent streak.

by bdalebs on Feb 12, 2009 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

As far as the glory years of Florida football

being 1990 to the present – we have had as much difficulty with Auburn as any team in the nation. I like the Auburn games though – they are usually exciting and traveling to Jordan Hare and tailgating at the library and the amphitheatre is a blast.

by skigator93 on Feb 12, 2009 3:54 PM EST reply actions

I agree...

…as I have been pelted with cups at FF in 1986 in Kerwin Bell’s wake and seen Seinfeld during Gator Growl in ’88.

The best Auburn game ever in my career? 1994 at Florida. Best I’ve seen live? 1993 Florida at Auburn.

Okay, we need more votes. I might need to hire ACORN to drive folks to the polls!

by War Eagle Atlanta on Feb 12, 2009 5:20 PM EST up reply actions

[hi five]

by bdalebs on Feb 12, 2009 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

If we played Auburn every year

I think it would be a no-brainer!

by skigator93 on Feb 12, 2009 10:36 PM EST up reply actions

And...

you guys would supplant LSU on our list, too, if we still had the annual series…

by War Eagle Atlanta on Feb 14, 2009 2:58 PM EST up reply actions

I voted LSU...

Simply because we had to play them every year, but Auburn is the team that is the most heated rival of the two. Both are geat programs that have won national championships or gone undefeated in the last ten years, but historically Auburn always has exposed us when we’ve had good & even great teams. In the Spurrier era, the loss usually came mainly from the Plains.

by Will4of5 on Feb 15, 2009 6:46 PM EST reply actions