On Friday night, Western Kentucky outlasted Middle Tennessee in a triple overtime affair. The rivalry has been dubbed “100 miles of hate” due to their long standing rivalry, going back to their days in the Ohio Valley Conference, and their geographic proximity to Nashville. The game marked their 3rd multi-overtime tilt in 4 years. Maybe overtime should have been expected given that both teams came into the game with identical 5-5 records.
All these multi-overtime games are metaphors for one of the most even long-time rivalries in college football. Middle now lead Western 34-32-1 in their series. The only other long-standing rivalry that seems to be as “50/50” is the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry: Auburn-Georgia.
Georgia currently sports a narrow 57-56-8 series lead over Auburn. Our recollection is that 5-10 years ago where somebody, with time on their hands, calculated that the total number of all-time points scored and found the two teams to have exactly the same number. Perhaps historians were surprised with Auburn’s utter dominance over Georgia 9 days ago.
Liliane
Exciting times ahead