This sort of back and forth seems to be common to many rivalries that exist in CFB. You'd think in general a rivalry would be a roughly 50-50 split, but they seem to run in streaks. Obviously, some of that is because Team A is better than B for a while, like Clemson and South Carolina, or Alabama and Auburn.
I wonder if each of them has similarly pivotal games where things changed.
Comparing to the WLOCP:
Overall, Georgia leads but it is relatively close at 52-43-2. Thus, Georgia's overall lead is just nine games out of almost a hundred so an "average" decade would be on the order of 5-5 or 6-4 just slightly favoring the Dawgs. Of course, that is not how the UF/UGA rivalry has played out. Instead:
- Georgia flat out dominated the early days with a 24-5-1 advantage in 30 games from 1904-1951.
- Florida then took over and dominated most of the 50's and 60's with a 13-5-1 advantage from 1952-1970.
- Gerogia then took over again and dominated most of the 70's and 80's with a 15-4 advantage from 1971-1989.
- Florida then took over and dominated the 90's and 2000's with an 18-3 advantage from 1990-2010.
- Since then Georgia has a slight 5-3 advantage from 2011-2018.
ND/USC is another relatively equal rivalry with the Irish owning a 48-37-5 advantage but it has been VERY "streaky":
- ND won four of the first five (1926-1930)
- USC won three straight (1931-1933)
- ND won three of four (the other was a tie) (1934-1937)
- USC won two straight (1938-39)
- ND won 10 of 12 (a tie and a loss) (1940-1954)
- USC won two (1955-6)
- ND won eight of ten (1957-1966)
- USC dominated going 12-2-2 (1967-1982)
- ND dominated going 12-0-1 (1983-1995)
- USC won three straight (1996-1998)
- ND won three straight (1999-2001)
- USC won nine of 10 (2002-2011)
- ND has won five of the last seven (2012-2018)