SEC Championship: Rivalry In School

The SEC Championship is causing a stir across the nation. Hardcore college football fans quarrel with their friends, predicting the outcome of one of the most built up and anticipated game of the year. And kids in school are arguing too.

I go to a school in Colorado, across the country from the rematch, but so many people in my school are keeping track of Florida and Alabama.

I am one of those hardcore Bama football fans, and every day as I walk though the halls I see people in their favorite team's apparel. This week I see millions of Florida jerseys intermixed with the regular CU and CSU. 

Up here, people don't understand what a huge deal football is down south, but they are perfectly happy to engage in an argument of who is going to win the true National Championship.

Every day in Language Arts, a couple of the kids at my table (including a Florida fan) fight in a laughing way over who is a better team. In the hallways, you hear people saying "Roll Tide" (that's mostly me though) and talk of Gators football. In PE, fans converse about who is going to be 'The Team', the Winner of The Game.

Probably 50 percent of the people in my grade (in sixth grade in Colorado that is a lot) know about the game. And if they don't they will on Monday. I can only guess how much they are talking down south.

Bragging rights go to the winner of this much anticipated match-up, and if your team lost, expect no mercy from the opposing team.

Afterwards, the Heisman Award and the BCS National Championship Game are coming, and once again, you will be teased, and have to listen to the ongoing bragging of the fans of the Champions of this game.  

So ROLL TIDE, let's bring back the pride, and beat the Gators!!!