Ranking the 10 best college football rivalry games

Nothing says college football, quite like rivalry week. With the eve of the final week of regular season games, we rank the top 10 rivalries in college football.

The Iron Bowl, The Egg Bowl, The Holy War, Clean Old Fashioned Hate. Just a few of the names of the multitude of college football rivalry games throughout the country. What makes these rivalry games so special? It’s for bragging rights. It’s for the amount of dislike for the other team from the players, to the fans and everyone involved with the programs. It is for the fact that sometimes the rivalry game can decide who goes to a bowl game and who does not, and now can even decide the fate of who goes to the college football playoff, and who does not.

Some teams have one true rival and some teams have multiple rivals, but there are always those certain games that are memorable and lasting. The Iron Bowl, for instance, has many had many great games played but the most memorable might be one of their more recent matchups in 2013. The “kick six” game, in which Alabama missed a 57-yard field goal and the ball was returned by Auburn for a touchdown, giving the Tigers the victory. It is moments like that that truly make a rivalry special and important (unless you’re on the wrong end of a play like that, then you probably just want to forget about the whole thing).

Here are the top 10 rivalries in college football, beginning with some honorable mentions: