Can new rivalries be made

[u/KosmoKanyon]

Georgia and Alabama have had some crazy games over the past 20 years or so. We've had some of the craziest games. They had our fucking number but we're finally turning the tide on them(no pun intended lol) We won our first national championship in 40 years against a team that shut our shit down time and time again.

Yet people keep telling me this is not a true rivalry. But it's the team and game I look forward to the most now fuck florida. So I want other people's opinion, is this not the biggest rivalry in the SEC at this point or what

[u/Free-Eights]

Every rivalry has to start from somewhere. Most of the classic rivalries you think of usually involve a component of playing the other every season, key moments where one team spoiled the others' hopes and aspirations, and over the course of a few years have considerable winner take all type stakes (in a localized context).

I don't know if I'd call Georgia-Bama a rivalry by that standard but I think it's a high-stakes competitive game that's meaningful in the national landscape. The real test would be if that feeling holds when one or both schools is just mediocre