For years, Arizona State and Arizona fans have clamored about how underrated their college football rivalry is.

That might change.

A recent article from the New York Times noted the ASU-Arizona rivalry as one of the biggest in sports and the No. 1 rivalry in all of college football, according to a study conducted by two college professors and published at KnowRivalry.com.

Yes, the Sun Devils and Wildcats were No. 1.

You can't be underrated after being named No. 1, can you?

The New York Times' Victor Mather detailed how the study came to name ASU vs. Arizona the best rivalry in college football.

"The professors sought out hard-core fans of North American professional teams and college football teams and asked them to allocate 100 points among their most hated rivals," Mather wrote. "A Minnesota fan might allocate 50 points to Wisconsin, 40 to Iowa and 10 to Michigan. Other fan bases might target their dislike more sharply. A U.C.L.A. fan might give 80, 90 or even all 100 points to Southern California. Rather, they are the ones where neither team has any other significant rivals to steal away points. Topping the college football chart is Arizona-Arizona State. With no other serious rivals, Arizona fans gave an average of 89 points to their cross-state rival, and Arizona State averaged 83 points back."

Know Rivalry also named the ASU-Arizona rivalry No. 1 back in 2014.

"I was surprised it (ASU-UA) was No. 1 but not surprised it was in the top 10," Joe Cobbs, one of the professors, said at the time. "Like most college football fans, you think Ohio State and Michigan. I thought Oklahoma and Texas (No. 9) might be a little higher."

He said Army and Navy did not make the list because those military academies did not have enough respondents. There were 5,317 full usable responses, Cobbs said.

Ohio State vs. Michigan came in as the second biggest rivalry, according to the study.

Some other Arizona teams came up in a different part of the study, a part that weighed unbalanced rivalries, fans of one team that hated another team much more than that team hated them.

According to the study, the Arizona Coyotes and Arizona Diamondbacks led their respective leagues in "Largest Rivalry Gap."

Coyotes fans perceive the Los Angeles Kings as their main rival, but Kings fans don't feel the same way, ranking the San Jose Sharks, Anaheim Ducks, Chicago Blackhawks and Vancouver Canucks higher than Arizona.

Same goes with Diamondbacks fans and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Mather wrote: "The Diamondbacks cannot get any attention from their perceived chief rival, the Dodgers, who rank the Giants, the Cardinals and the Angels higher."

You can read the New York Times' writeup on the biggest rivalries in sports here.

You can find the data on your favorite team's rivals here.