... played on the third Saturday). Dixie's great football war (as coined by Tennessee radio broadcaster Bob Kesling). Border battle. Conference clash.

No matter what you call it, the Tennessee-Alabama series is one of college football's premier rivalries. Predating the Southeastern Conference by three decades, the rivalry is almost as old as the football programs themselves at these two schools.

It is a series that defined two of college football's greatest coaches: Tennessee's Robert Neyland and Alabama's Paul Bryant (The General and The Bear) and made gridiron legacies out of mere mortals who have defined this series since its inception in 1901.

The winningest coaches at each school tend to dominate the series. At Tennessee, ...

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