Where do you rank Tech-UGA amongst Intrastate Football Rivalries?

1. seems about right for Clean, Old Fashioned Hate. The next closest comparison is Clemson-South Carolina and I’d say we are definitely “bigger” based on the criteria you’ve laid out here.

However, I don’t agree with just taking the 50 states. I think you need to look at actual in-state rivals rather than just teams that share a state. Take California for instance, Cal-Stanford and UCLA-SoCal are rivals but I don’t think you can lump all four together as “rivals”.

Of course this makes the list more complicated and a lot harder to rank. I like the idea though. I wonder if GT-uga suffers because it has no bearing on either team’s conference standing? Was the rivalry stronger when GT was still an SEC member?

And some matchups, like Sparty/Wolverines, are played relatively early in the year. I’d argue that’s nationally irrelevant due to happening so early.

Alabama – Auburn is easy. No other state gets divided quite like Alabama nor to the poisonous degree.

I always thought USC vs. UCLA was a big deal. But there was a time when USC vs. Notre Dame was bigger.

Florida State vs. Miami is huge. Florida has chickened out of the state rivalry for the most part.

The problem with some of those other state rivalries is that I cannot tell if they are any bigger than certain cross state rivalries. Is Oklahoma / Oklahoma State bigger than Oklahoma vs. Nebraska? I don’t know. Likewise, is Michigan / Michigan State bigger than Michigan vs. Ohio State?

It was not that many years ago I used to hear Georgia fans say that Tech was not as big a rival as Auburn, Florida or even Clemson. Yeah, they used to say that. Seems like a distant memory now.

I come in peace. I agree with much of what has been said about these rankings, but wanted to chime in that some rivalries like FSU/Miami get an inflated ranking due to the teams being so good. (Not now obviously, but for many recent years)

In reality, those games are largely “johnny come lately” matchups that didn’t have half of the hate of our “Clean Old Fashioned” variety, until the teams started playing with so much at stake.

I’ve lived and worked in Atlanta, Huntsville (AL), and Jacksonville (FL), each for at least a five year span. I would say that in looking back at all those years, the COFH between GT and uga is really damn close to Auburn-Bama at the local state level. The thing that tops their rivalry off is the simple fact that they have some derp-insane psycho’s for fans that do some of the most dumbest things for the love of their team. I mean seriously, poisoning trees for jebus’ sake. That and the fact that the Iron Bowl is much more welcomed nationally because of it’s consistent competitiveness. It’s hard to make a case for COFH nationally when it’s been so one-sided for the past decade.

Having said that, the in-state rivalries between UF, free shoes, and thugU doesn’t even come close, locally or nationally. While in the A or Huntsville, the game is all people talk about. Every conversation gravitates toward the game. People dress up in the school colors, dress their kids in the school colors, dress their cars in the school colors, some people take a week off from work to prepare for the weekend, people spends hundreds on food and drink for massive parties, and this all happens on a very large scale. I really don’t see that here in Jacksonville. Not one single conversation has mentioned the UF-FSU game this weekend and I have yet to see any propaganda being flown on the highways. In fact, there are more people talking about COFH than anything Florida relatesd and it’s like that every year. Sure, there is obviously some history between the three teams as mentioned above, but this rivalry feel irelevant and obscured from both the local and antional eye.