A long time ago in a place not far from here, I asked the great wise man about rivalries. He looked up from the blades of grass he had been studying, wiped the sweat from his brow and said this:
“Well, it depends on when you were born.”
Those words from [autotag]Danny Wuerffel[/autotag], then a junior in college, always stayed with me. Because for Florida, a school that probably has too many rivalry games, they differ from decade to decade. Heck, sometimes they differ from coach to coach.
Some rivalries are thick with history. Some are fairly new. Some make no sense at all.
We only know that the electricity gets cranked up, the noise rises and the losses are gut punches.
For the latest Dooley’s Dozen, here are the 12 biggest rivalries for the mighty Gators. You don’t think there are 12. Ha! I say to you.