If you think that was big, you're right, but just wait.
If you think Louisville vs. Kentucky in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night was as intense as a postseason game between two bitter in-state rivals can be, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Imagine the energy, the passion, the raw emotion that'll be generated the first time Alabama and Auburn look each other in the face in the College Football Playoff.
It's going to happen. It has to happen. It would've happened last season in the semifinals in the Rose Bowl had the playoff started a year sooner than its upcoming 2014 debut, but it's probably better that it didn't.
It would've been next to impossible to top the Kick Six.
At some point, though, the Tide and Tigers both will be good enough at the same time again to be in the national championship chase before and after they close the regular season in the Iron Bowl.
The Alabama program under Nick Saban isn't going away. Gus Malzahn is building the Auburn program to last, too.
Saban and Malzahn have a way to go to match the long history between Louisville's Rick Pitino and Kentucky's John Calipari, but the Alabama and Auburn football coaches are off to a great start. With them on opposite sidelines, we've already witnessed two of the most amazing Iron Bowls in history in 2010 and 2013.
They're 1 for 1 in staging a classic as opposing head coaches.
A playoff game between them in, say, New Orleans would set off that famous seismograph on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. It would look and feel a lot like Kentucky 74, Louisville 69 on Friday night in Indianapolis.
Come to think of it, on the court, that Battle of Kentucky played out a lot like the last Iron Bowl.
Louisville was the defending national champion, the team with the higher ranking and the higher seed. Just like Alabama on the morning of Nov. 30, 2013.
Louisville looked like it would justify its reputation and continue its quest for a repeat national championship by leading for most of the game. So did Alabama in its quest for a three-peat.
Instead, Louisville couldn't make a free throw to save its season. Alabama's still kicking itself because it couldn't make one lousy field goal.
Kentucky rallied after being down by 13 points in the first half and overcame a seven-point deficit with four minutes to play. The Wildcats didn't take the lead for good until they hit a 3-pointer with 39.1 seconds left.
Auburn rallied after being down by 14 points in the first half and emerged from a seven-point hole to tie with 32 seconds remaining. The Tigers didn't take the lead for good until they ran back the Kick Six on the final play of regulation as the clock struck zero.
It's probably a total coincidence that Louisville and Alabama, the champions that went down to bitter defeat, wear red while Kentucky and Auburn, the challengers that staged improbable and historic comebacks, wear blue.
In any case, the Cards and 'Cats gave us a tantalizing taste of what a postseason game between two championship rivals should be. It was fitting that the latest greatest edition of one of the best basketball rivalries in the country played out in a football stadium.
It also was an omen. One day, the greatest football rivalry in the world is going to play out in the postseason for the first time. It'll be the closest thing to Armageddon you can witness and live to tell about.