Recent Iron Bowls at Jordan-Hare Stadium have had a tendency to get wild -- and this year may be no exception.

No amount of gimmicks or psychological ploys could have worked that week, no matter how much he tried. Everyone outside of the man himself wanted to win the 1981 Iron Bowl for Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, and no talk of it being just another game would be believed.

One of the most fiery rivalries in the South, college football, and — indeed — American sports, Alabama vs. Auburn is a game where the records coming in cease to matter. Dubbed the Iron Bowl, the in-state rivalry between the Crimson Tide and Tigers has ...