Yeah, you're on an island here, THS.
I'm only like a year older than you and I'm not from Georgia, but you're insane if you don't think there's any significance to the Georgia rivalry.
I'm not going to argue that it's more significant than Bama, but as far as college football tradition goes, it can't be topped.
The above sentence is leading me to two tangential rants.
1) I've expressed before that this irks me, but the
South's Oldest Rivalry is officially
UNC-Virginia (yawn), while
Auburn-UGA is referred to as the
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry despite the fact that Auburn-UGA's first game was played first (February 1892 vs. October 1892) and was the first meeting between two Southern college football teams ever. The distinction is that UNC-UVA have met ONE more time in their history and have played in consecutive years every year since 1919 after 23 prior meetings, whereas Auburn has only played in consecutive years since 1944 because Auburn didn't field a team at all in 1943 due to WWII (I don't think that should count as a disruption). Otherwise, Auburn-UGA would have played consecutively since 1919 with 23 prior meetings as well.
2) This is another example of "tradition", a word overused and overplayed by Bama, being actually more entrenched at Auburn. The first and (debatably) longest running football rivalry in the south. Add that to the list that includes Toomer's Corner, the eagle flight, Tiger Walk (which they've since copied), etc. The list goes on and on.
However, the fact that I felt the need to go on rant #2 proves the original point that Auburn-Bama is still the most significant rivalry.