The Alabama-LSU rivalry doesn't have the history of some others in the SEC. It doesn't have a catchy nickname.

But the Crimson Tide and Tigers have been playing since 1895, and over the years have played some out-and-out classics. And particularly of late, the rivalry has been an important one in both the SEC and national championship races.

Here are 22 of the most memorable matchups between Alabama and LSU:

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1958: Eventual national champion Tigers spoil Bryant's Bama debut

Paul "Bear" Bryant's first game as Alabama head coach took place not in Tuscaloosa or Baton Rouge, or even Birmingham, but at Mobile's Ladd Memorial Stadium. LSU, on its way to an 11-0 finish and a national championship under coach Paul Dietzel, scored a 13-3 victory behind 86 yards and a touchdown rushing from Billy Cannon, who would win the Heisman Trophy the following year. Aside from being Bryant's debut, the game is perhaps best known today for an incident during the second quarter in which the bleachers in one end zone collapsed, injuring more than 60 spectators.

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1967: Alabama scores one-point win on missed extra point

Alabama's bid for a fourth straight SEC title in 1967 ultimately fell short thanks to a 24-13 loss to Tennessee in October, but the Crimson Tide was able to at least temporarily keep its hopes alive thanks to a 7-6 victory in Baton Rouge on Nov. 11. The game was scoreless until early in the fourth quarter, when Alabama fullback Ed Morgan scored from the 1-yard line and Steve Davis added the extra point. LSU bid for the tie some four minutes later after a 45-yard touchdown run by Tommy Allen, but Roy Hurd missed the point-after and the Crimson Tide made it out of Tiger Stadium with the victory.

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1971: Resurgent Tide holds on for 7-point win in defensive battle

Having installed the wishbone offense in the preseason, Alabama had rolled to eight straight victories and a No. 4 national ranking by the time it met No. 18 LSU in Baton Rouge in early November. With All-America running back Johnny Musso slowed by a shoulder injury, Alabama managed just 214 yards of offense in the game --- all on the ground --- but managed to win 14-7. Two field goals and a Terry Davis touchdown run followed by a two-point conversion gave Alabama a 14-0 lead in the third quarter, then the Crimson Tide allowed a Tigers touchdown before shutting the door for the win.

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1979: Alabama emerges with 3-0 victory in rain-soaked Baton Rouge

The old saying goes that "it never rains in Tiger Stadium," but that was far from the truth on Nov. 10, 1979. Defending national champion Alabama had won 17 straight games coming in, but torrential rains and a tough LSU defense slowed the Crimson Tide considerably. Alan McElroy's 27-yard field goal in the second quarter accounted for the game's only points. The teams combined for four turnovers and 15 punts. Alabama never advanced past LSU's 9-yard line, while the Tigers crossed the 50 only twice. Alabama finished off a perfect season with victories over Miami, Auburn and Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl, giving Bryant the last of his six national championships.

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1982: LSU snaps 11-game losing streak in Bryant's final season

Alabama faded down the stretch in Bryant's final season, beginning with a 20-10 loss to No. 11 LSU in Birmingham in early November. The Tigers ---- who had not beaten the Crimson Tide since 1970 --- jumped out to a 17-0 lead in the first half behind running back Dalton Hilliard and quarterback Alan Risher. LSU held Alabama to 119 yards and six first downs, including an unfathomable (at the time) 45 yards on the ground. Alabama got back in the game with 10 points in the third quarter, but got just one first down thereafter against LSU's top-rated defense. The Crimson Tide lost to Southern Miss and Auburn to finish the regular season on a three-game slide, but sent Bryant out a winner by beating Illinois 22-15 in the Liberty Bowl.

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1985: Alabama escapes with 14-14 tie thanks to missed field goal

The most recent of five ties in the series took place on Nov. 9, 1985, in Baton Rouge. But if LSU's Ronnie Lewis had been able to make a 24-yard field goal with five seconds remaining, the Tigers could have beaten the Crimson Tide at Tiger Stadium for the first time since 1969. As it was, Lewis shanked the kick, and the game ended in a 14-14 tie. Alabama had tied the game with 1:24 remaining, when freshman running back Gene Jelks threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to quarterback Mike Shula, and Van Tiffin --- who had missed two field goals earlier in the game --- kicked the extra point. As it turned out, the tie cost both Alabama and LSU a shot at a share of the SEC title, as Tennessee finished first by a half-game over the Crimson Tide and Tigers and took the Sugar Bowl bid.

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1986: Ill-timed turnovers hand LSU 14-10 victory in Birmingham

Alabama had risen as high as No. 2 in the national polls before a 23-3 loss to Penn State in late October, but still harbored SEC championship hopes when LSU visited Legion Field two weeks later. The Tigers took a 14-10 lead into the fourth quarter, but the Crimson Tide drove inside the 5-yard line with about seven minutes to play. On first-and-goal, Alabama's Bobby Humphrey fumbled at the 1 on a hard hit, and LSU's Kevin Guidry recovered in the end zone. Ironically, Humphrey --- who also fumbled the ball away near midfield earlier in the quarter --- had become Alabama's single-season rushing leader on that play. LSU ran out the clock for the victory and clinched its first SEC title since 1970 a week later with a win over Mississippi State and Auburn's loss to Georgia.

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1993: Lowly Tigers stun defending national champion Tide in Tuscaloosa

Alabama was the defending national champion and was riding a 31-game unbeaten streak when 3-5 LSU visited Bryant-Denny Stadium on Nov. 6, 1993. The Tigers left Bryant-Denny Stadium with a 17-13 victory, the high point of the Curley Hallman era and Alabama's first loss since early in the 1991 season. With starting quarterback Jay Barker out for the year with a knee injury, the Crimson Tide rotated through Brian Burgdorf, Freddie Kitchens and even David Palmer under center, but could not muster much on offense. LSU snagged four interceptions in the second half, two of them leading to touchdowns. Palmer threw a touchdown pass to Kevin Lee in the final three minutes to make it 17-13, but the Crimson Tide failed to recover the onside kick and LSU ran out the clock.

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1996: Shaun Alexander's coming-out party highlights an Alabama rout

One of the great individual performances in Alabama's storied football history took place on Nov. 9, 1996, in Baton Rouge. Redshirt freshman Shaun Alexander ran for a program record 291 yards on just 20 carries, accounting for all four touchdowns in a 26-0 Crimson Tide victory. Alexander scored on runs of 17, 73, 72 and 12 yards, averaging 14.6 yards per carry and producing 70 percent of Alabama's 412 total yards. The Alabama defense pitched a shutout, holding LSU to just 52 yards rushing and forcing three turnovers. Alabama would finish 10-3 that season and win the SEC West championship, while Alexander would end his career in 1999 as the school's all-time leading rusher.

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1998: Alabama pulls stunner in one of school's greatest comebacks

Two years after Alexander dominated the Tigers, he and his Crimson Tide comrades pulled off an even more amazing victory in Baton Rouge. Alabama scored 16 points in the game's final 2 1/2 minutes to win 22-16 before a stunned capacity crowd at Tiger Stadium. LSU appeared to have the game in hand leading 16-7 with 9:40 remaining, when Marcus Spencer's end zone interception appeared to flip the momentum. Andrew Zow hit Alexander for a 21-yard touchdown pass with 2:24 to play to make it 16-14, then Alabama's Adam Cox recovered the subsequent onside kick at the LSU 40. Four plays later, the Crimson Tide was in the end zone again on Zow's 25-yard touchdown pass to Quincy Jackson, followed by a 2-point pass to Michael Vaughn. Spencer snagged another interception moments later to kill LSU's last remaining hope.

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1999: Costly goal-line stop secures heart-stopping Alabama victory

When Alabama and LSU met in Tuscaloosa in 1999, the Crimson Tide was surging toward an SEC championship, while the Tigers were careening toward a 3-8 finish that would get coach Gerry DiNardo fired. Alabama escaped with a 23-17 victory thanks to a goal-line stop in the game's final moments, but it was a costly one. Quarterback Josh Booty had driven the Tigers from their 20-yard line in less than two minutes, and scrambled toward the goal line in the final seconds. Alabama's Marvin Constant, Reggie Myles and Cornelius Griffin stopped him inside the 1, with Constant suffering a serious knee injury (which ultimately ended his career) on the play. In the chaos that ensued, the clock never stopped for the injury and Alabama had a six-point win. In the current era of instant replay, it's likely time would have been put back on the clock and LSU allowed at least one more play.

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2000: LSU finally wins in Baton Rouge behind first-year coach Nick Saban

Nick Saban changed a lot of things about LSU football in his five-year tenure in Baton Rouge, and one of those was the Tigers' historic futility against Alabama in Tiger Stadium. LSU hadn't beaten Alabama in Tiger Stadium since 1969 when Saban took over in 2000, but quickly ended that streak with a 30-28 victory in his first season. Josh Booty threw four touchdown passes --- two each to Josh Reed and Robert Royal --- as the Tigers overcame a 21-14 second-half deficit against a Crimson Tide team that was struggling to a 3-8 finish. Royal recovered Alabama's onside kick with 7 seconds remaining as the Tigers ended two decades of home frustration in the series.

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2002: Franchione's Tide deals Saban's Tigers decisive home setback

Other than a 50-10 loss to a Nebraska team regarded as among the best in college football history in his first game at Michigan State, no Nick Saban team ever suffered a more decisive home loss than the one Alabama put on LSU on Nov. 16, 2002. Alabama was ineligible for the SEC title due to NCAA sanctions, but showed the defending league champions who was the best team in the West that year. Dennis Franchione's Crimson Tide rolled up 300 yards rushing and held LSU to just 65 while holding the ball for nearly 35 minutes of clock time. Most impressive was a 9-play, 96-yard touchdown drive just before the half in which Alabama ran the ball on every play.

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2005: Alabama native JaMarcus Russell leads LSU to OT victory

Alabama's hopes of an undefeated season ended with a 16-13 overtime loss to an LSU team directed by quarterback JaMarcus Russell, a Mobile native. Alabama led 10-0 at halftime before LSU tied it with 10 points of its own in the third quarter. After a scoreless fourth, the game moved to overtime for the first time in series history (but not the last). Alabama's Jamie Christensen began the extra period with a 34-yard field goal to put the Crimson Tide up three, but moments later Russell fired a laser beam to Dwayne Bowe for a 12-yard game-winning touchdown. The Tigers went on to win the SEC West (losing to Georgia in the title game), while the Crimson Tide went 10-2 and won the Cotton Bowl.

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2007: Tigers win wild offensive shootout with two late touchdowns

One of the highest-scoring games in series history was a turning point in the rivalry, though LSU ultimately won 41-34 for its fifth straight victory over Alabama. Nick Saban had returned from the NFL to take over at Alabama, just four years after leading LSU to a national championship. The Crimson Tide showed it wasn't going to be pushed around anymore, led 20-17 at halftime and took a 34-27 lead on Javier Arenas' electrifying punt return touchdown in the fourth quarter. Les Miles' Tigers scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes to win, however, forcing a fumble by Alabama's John Parker Wilson to set up Jacob Hester's 1-yard game-winner 1:26 to play. LSU would go on to win the national title that year, but haven't won one since. Alabama has won five.

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2008: Alabama wins in overtime in Saban's return to Baton Rouge

The mania regarding Saban's return to LSU for the first time since leaving for the NFL four years earlier (and re-emerging at Alabama, among other places) obscured what was an incredibly important game in the 2008 SEC West race. Top-ranked Alabama was unbeaten at 9-0, while No. 15 LSU was 6-2 and still in the running. Saban and his team were greeted rudely when the got off the bus and later when they took the field, but got the last laugh with a 27-21 overtime victory. Alabama had a shot to win in regulation, but LSU's Ricky-Jean Francois blocked Leigh Tiffin's short field goal attempt on the final play. In overtime, Alabama's Rashad Johnson picked off LSU's Jarrett Lee --- Johnson's third interception of the game --- and the Crimson Tide needed only to score to win. Wilson hit Julio Jones for 24 yards to the 1, then carried the ball across the goal line for the winning points.

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2009: Alabama wins matchup of top 10 teams on way to national title

Third-ranked Alabama clinched the SEC West with a 24-15 victory over No. 9 LSU in Tuscaloosa that is remembered largely for a controversial call in the final six minutes. With the Crimson Tide clinging to a 21-15 lead in the fourth quarter, Greg McElroy threw toward Julio Jones in the left flat. Tigers cornerback Patrick Peterson stepped in front of the ball and appeared to get a foot down on the sideline, but officials ruled him out of bounds (replay did not overturn the decision). Alabama eventually drove for a 40-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal that extended its lead to two scores. McElroy passed for two touchdowns, including a 73-yarder to Jones earlier in the fourth quarter as Alabama stayed unbeaten. The Crimson Tide went on to win the first of its five national championships under Saban two months later.

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2011: LSU wins 'Game of the Century' in Tuscaloosa in battle of field goals

There might never be another regular season game with the buildup of the Nov. 7, 2011, meeting between Alabama and LSU at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The Tigers were 8-0 and ranked No. 1, while the Crimson Tide was 8-0 and ranked No. 2. Neither team had been seriously challenged to that point in the season. What resulted was a 9-6 LSU victory consisting entirely of field goals, including a 25-yarder by Drew Alleman to win it in overtime. Alabama missed four field goals in the game, and also botched a trick play that turned into an interception by LSU's Eric Reid near the goal line. Though the game didn't have much in the way of offensive fireworks, the talent on the field was astounding as more than 40 players who saw action that night have gone on to play in the NFL.Still, it left many observers unsatisfied, so much so that the two teams would meet again some two months later for the BCS national championship.

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2012: Alabama gets its revenge with 21-0 victory in BCS title game

Everything fell into place for an Alabama-LSU rematch for the national championship game, including a stunning loss by No. 2 Oklahoma State to lowly Iowa State in mid-November. LSU had run through its schedule unbeaten, while Alabama lost only to the Tigers. When the BCS formulas were calculated, it was the Tigers vs. the Crimson Tide again, this time at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Jan. 9. It was no contest this time, as LSU totaled just 92 yards of offense and didn't even cross midfield until the second half. Alabama managed just five Jeremy Shelley field goals before Trent Richardson broke loose for a 34-yard touchdown in the game's closing minutes. Alabama was national champion for the second time in three years, and had begun a winning streak against LSU that has reached seven straight.

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2012: TJ Yeldon's late touchdown breaks hearts in Baton Rouge again

Everything seemed to be in place for LSU to knock off top-ranked and unbeaten Alabama on Nov. 4, 2012, as the Tigers had outgained the Crimson Tide by more than 100 yards, held the ball for nearly 39 minutes and forced two turnovers. But AJ McCarron's 28-yard touchdown pass to TJ Yeldon with 51 seconds left lifted Alabama to a 21-17 victory and kept the Crimson Tide on pace for a second straight national title. Fifth-ranked LSU led 17-14 when Alabama took over at its 28-yard line with 1:27 remaining. McCarron coolly drove the Crimson Tide to the LSU 28 with three straight first-down passes to Kevin Norwood before an incompletion. Alabama may or may not have been setting up for a game-tying field goal when McCarron found Yeldon on a screen pass to the left side, but Yeldon raced through the LSU secondary for the touchdown and the lead. Damion Square sacked the Tigers' Zach Mettenburger three plays later to end the game.

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2014: Alabama wins another overtime classic in Baton Rouge

Alabama came away with another shocking victory at LSU in 2014, a 20-13 decision that was the fourth overtime game between the two teams in 10 years. Yeldon, the hero of the Crimson Tide's victory two years previous, appeared to gift-wrap an LSU win when he fumbled at the Alabama 6 with the scored tied at 10 and 1:14 remaining. However, a controversial unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on LSU lineman Vadal Alexander drove the Tigers out of the red zone, and Colby Delahoussaye booted a 39-yard field goal to make it 13-10 with 50 seconds left. Blake Sims then drove the Crimson Tide quickly into position for Adam Griffith's 27-yard field goal, which tied the game at the end of regulation. Sims found Andrew White for a 6-yard touchdown in overtime to give Alabama the lead, then LSU's Anthony Jennings threw four straight incompletions to end the game.

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2016: Jalen Hurts' fourth-quarter touchdown sparks 10-0 Alabama win

Alabama was held below 30 points just once in the 2016 regular season, and it came in yet another defensive battle in Baton Rouge. The top-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 15 Tigers were scoreless through three quarters at Tiger Stadium, with Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts finally putting points on the board with a 21-yard touchdown run with 13:08 to play. Adam Griffith later added a 25-yard field goal to put the Crimson Tide up two scores against an LSU team that managed just 125 yards of total offense and averaged only 3.04 yards per play. LSU never got inside the Alabama 35, with a third-quarter drive into Crimson Tide territory ending on a Dalvin Tomlinson sack of Danny Etling on third down. Alabama would roll through the regular season unbeaten before winning the SEC title and a first-round playoff game against Washington, ultimately losing to Clemson in the national championship game.