The college football season kicks off Thursday at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN with a border war that features an SEC team against its Northern neighbor at a neutral site.

The South Carolina Gamecocks and the North Carolina Tar Heels will meet in Charlotte, N.C., at Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, for what will be the 57th installment of the “Battle of the Carolinas.”

The first game in the series between these two teams was a win for the Tar Heels in Columbia during the 1903 season. And the last time these two programs met was also in Columbia for the 2013 season opener, which resulted in a Gamecocks 27-10 victory.

Both Carolinas played in the same conference for 49 years — first the Southern Conference and then later the ACC, before the Gamecocks became independent in 1971 (South Carolina joined the SEC in 1991).

Future plans for this series were announced Sept. 2, securing two more games between the Carolinas, one in 2019 and then again in 2023.

This will only be the third time that this rivalry game hasn’t been either in Columbia or Chapel Hill (the previous two were in Durham, N.C., and Norfolk, Va.) and the Tar Heels currently hold the advantage in the series with a record of 34-18-4.

Here’s a decade-by-decade snapshot of how these teams have fared against each other:

1900s

Advantage: North Carolina, 3-0

The Carolinas played in 1903, 1904 and 1908 and none of the contests were close. The Tar Heels didn’t even allow the Gamecocks to score in a point in any of the three games, winning by a combined score of 66-0.

1910s

Advantage: North Carolina, 4-0-1

Another dominant decade for the Tar Heels, highlighted by a 48-0 win in 1914. The game in Chapel Hill in 1912 ended in a 6-6 tie.

1920s

Advantage: North Carolina, 6-2-2

South Carolina finally got on the board in ’20s with a close win in 1924 and again in 1927. A game on Nov. 10, 1928, in Columbia between these two squads actually ended in a 0-0 tie.

1930s

Advantage: North Carolina, 1-0-1

Slow decade for the series. The Carolinas played a home-and-home between the 1936 and 1937 seasons and the Tar Heels won their game on the road.

1940s

Advantage: North Carolina, 3-2

This is the decade where the competitiveness between these two teams really started to even out. There were several close meetings throughout this 10-year stretch but the Tar Heels still remained supreme in the rivalry.

1950s

Advantage: North Carolina, 8-2

The ’50s offered the first decade where the Battle of the Carolinas occurred in 10 consecutive years. Both of South Carolina’s wins were shutouts with a combined score of 32-0, but the Tar Heels continued their series dominance in the other eight performances.

1960s

Advantage: Split, 4-4

South Carolina won the first game of the decade against North Carolina in 1960 but then the Tar Heels rattled off four straight from 1961-64. But the Gamecocks finished the ’60s strong with three victories from 1967-69.

1970s

Advantage: North Carolina, 3-2

This is the last decade that North Carolina has won over South Carolina and it might stay that way for quite some time. The Tar Heels won three big games between 1977-79, including 17-0 and 28-0 shutouts.

1980s

Advantage: South Carolina, 3-1

North Carolina snuck out a 24-8 win in Columbia in 1983, but the Gamecocks were the much better team in the ’80s. South Carolina returned the favor in 1989 with a win in Chapel Hill.

1990s

Advantage: Split, 1-1

The two programs played in a home-and-home between 1990 and 1991 and split the contests, each winning their home game. However, South Carolina’s 27-5 win was more decisive than North Carolina’s 21-17 victory the year later.

2000s

Advantage: South Carolina, 1-0

The Gamecocks pulled out a close one on the road by going into Chapel Hill and pulling off the 21-15 victory. That was in 2007, which was not a good year by South Carolina’s standards. The Gamecocks finished just 6-6 that season, which made this a crucial win to end up bowl eligible.

2010s

Advantage: South Carolina, 1-0

I already alluded to this outcome earlier, but the Gamecocks won this last meeting between the Carolinas convincingly 27-10. There will be some players in this year’s meeting that will remember that game and the Tar Heels will probably use the revenge factor as motivation.