AUBURN, Ala. — With college football season finally in our midst, Alabama and Auburn fans are counting down the days until the legendary Iron Bowl. However, off the field, Alabama and Auburn fans go head-to-head in another competition—the Iron Bowl of grammar and spelling.

Grammarly, an automated proofreading company, ranked the current AP Top 25 teams on which fans have the best grammar, punctuation and spelling.

The company collected 100 random comments from the SB Nation blogs from each team in the Associated Press top-25 college football poll. The comments were then reviewed by Grammarly, which identified spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors. The errors were then verified by editors at the company, who calculated the average number of mistakes.

The rankings of the Yellowhammer State’s two biggest college rivals are sure to divide the state of Alabama. The results: Auburn fans have the best grammar, and Alabama fans have the worst.

“Auburn’s fans made seven times fewer mistakes than their in-state rival, Alabama,” Yuriy Timen, Grammarly’s director of marketing, wrote in an email.

Alabama fans made 6.4 mistakes per 100 words, while Auburn fans only made 0.9 mistakes per 100 words, the fewest among the top 25.

However, Grammarly ignored the use of common slang words, deeming the Alabama war cries of “Roll Tide” just as grammatically sound as “War Eagle.”

Here’s how the rest of the top 25 ranked:

There is one bright spot, according to the Wall Street Journal, “At least college football fans can take solace in the fact that their grammar, even Alabama’s, is better than that of MLB and NFL fans. When Grammarly ran studies on those leagues, fans of the Mets and the Redskins both averaged more than twice as many mistakes per 100 words than Crimson Tide fans.”

(H/T WSJ)

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