Alabama and Georgia are not each other’s fiercest rivals. But they play for high stakes often enough to make it feel like they are.

Both schools were charter members when the SEC was founded in 1933. The Crimson Tide owns the most league titles, 26, and the Bulldogs are tied for second with Tennessee at 13.

Considering the success of both programs, it seems odd that this Saturday’s meeting (4 p.m. EST, CBS) in Atlanta is only their second in an SEC Championship Game. After all, this is Alabama’s record-tying 12th appearance in the game, which began in 1992, and it is Georgia’s seventh.

Saturday’s meeting is the 69th in a series which Alabama leads 39-25-4. The first meeting was Nov. 2, 1895 in Columbus, Ga.; the Bulldogs won 30-6. Alabama finished 0-4 that season, for which Crimson Tide faithful probably still have not forgiven coach Eli Abbott.

The first Georgia-Alabama meeting on the SEC’s biggest stage, in 2012, was tremendous. Their epic last season on the nation’s biggest stage, to crown a College Football Playoff national champion, was even better. Those two games join eight more on our list of the 10 best moments in the Georgia-Alabama rivalry.

10. Georgia 20, Alabama 6, 1927

During Wallace Wade’s legendary coaching tenure at Alabama, defense was the Crimson Tide’s calling card. His teams gave up 20 or more points just three times in his entire eight-year stint, from 1923-30. Georgia delivered one of those three performances, on Nov. 27 in Birmingham — the first game at the newly completed Legion Field. All-American Tom Nash and captain Chick Shiver, named “perhaps the best pair of ends in the nation” in one contemporary account, led the Dawgs.

9. Alabama 41, Georgia 30, 2008

The first of five times on this list when both teams were ranked in the top 10 when they met. No. 8 Alabama took a 31-0 halftime lead on Sept. 27 in Athens. No. 3 Georgia then chipped away at its deficit behind quarterback Matthew Stafford, who months later became the No. 1 overall pick on the NFL Draft. He threw for 274 yards to lead a rally, but Bama, with four rushing TDs including two by Glen Coffee, hung on. Coffee’s TD run in the fourth quarter ended all doubt:

8. Alabama 21, Georgia 6, 1960

Perhaps the Crimson Tide’s best upset win in this series. Alabama was unranked on Sept. 17 when it faced the No. 13 Bulldogs in Birmingham. Georgia, behind quarterback Fran Tarkenton, was coming off of a 10-1 season capped by an SEC championship and an Orange Bowl win over Missouri. But the Crimson Tide, in its third season under coach Bear Bryant, ended Georgia’s streak of scoring in double digits in 13 consecutive games.

7. Georgia 35, Alabama 0, 1948

The Crimson Tide were shut out only once in coach Harold “Red” Drew’s first five seasons as their coach, from 1947-51. This was it. Not only did the No. 18 Bulldogs earn their biggest margin of victory in series history on Oct. 30, they did it in Birmingham and handed Bama its worst loss since 1910. Joe Jacukra had three interceptions to set an UGA single-game record that still stands (since tied three times). The Dawgs won the SEC and went 9-1 in the regular season before losing to Texas in the Orange Bowl.

6. Georgia 21, Alabama 10, 1942

With World War II raging, and a lot of schools temporarily halting their football programs, this meeting was big. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 2 in the AP poll and Alabama No. 3 when the teams met Oct. 31 at a neutral site, Atlanta’s Grant Field. The Bulldogs prevailed, and a few weeks later their star tailback, Frank Sinkwich, became the SEC’s first Heisman Trophy winner. Eight “major selectors” chose the Bulldogs as national champs, but the final AP poll had them No. 2 behind Ohio State.

5. Alabama 29, Georgia 28, 1994

Alabama was No. 11 and Georgia was unranked coming into this meeting on Oct. 1 in Tuscaloosa. Jay Barker passed for 396 yards, still the No. 3 single-game total in Crimson Tide history, to lead Alabama. Michael Proctor hit the winning 32-yard field goal with 1:12 remaining to spoil a historic game for Eric Zeier. With 263 passing yards, Zeier set the SEC record at 9,327, breaking Shane Matthews’ mark. Zeier, who passed for four TDs against Bama, is now sixth on the SEC passing yards chart.

4. Georgia 18, Alabama 17, 1965

After Alabama won its first national title in 1961, the Crimson Tide was nearly unstoppable. They had lost just three times in conference play since then. But on Sept. 18, 1965, in Athens, second-year coach Vince Dooley and Georgia handed No. 5 Alabama a stunning upset. The Dawgs scored a long touchdown late thanks to a controversial lateral and won with the ensuing 2-point conversion:

It was Bama’s only loss in a season where Bear Bryant’s bunch split the national title with Michigan State.

3. Alabama 32, Georgia 28, 2012 SEC CG

Alabama was ranked No. 2 and Georgia No. 3 entering a de facto BCS national semifinal on Dec. 1. The game in Atlanta delivered the goods. Game MVP Eddie Lacy rushed for 181 yards; his 9.1-yard average is still the SEC title game record. T.J. Yeldon gained 153 yards rushing, and AJ McCarron hit Amari Cooper for the winning 45-yard TD with 3:15 left. Georgia’s Todd Gurley ran for 122 yards and two scores in a back-and-forth tussle that went down to the last play.

2. Georgia 21, Alabama 0, 1976

Alabama owned the SEC in the 1970s, winning seven league titles outright and sharing another in that decade. This was the only year since 1970 that someone else intervened. The Bulldogs, with Matt Robinson and future coach Ray Goff splitting time at quarterback, handed the Crimson Tide a rare conference defeat and even rarer shutout on Oct. 2 in Athens. Georgia and its “Junkyard Dawgs” defense went on to split the SEC title with Kentucky.

1. Alabama 26, Georgia 23, OT, 2017 CFP title game

Sorry, Dawgs fans, but what else could No. 1 be? This game joined the ranks of Ohio State-Miami (2002) and Texas-USC (2005) among college football’s greatest national championship games. On Jan. 8, 2018, at Atlanta’s new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the SEC combatants took their rivalry to a new level. No. 3 CFP seed Georgia led 20-7 in the third quarter. What happened after that? Oh yeah, the legend of Tua Tagovailoa was born with his walkoff, 41-yard OT scoring strike to Devonta Smith.