ATHENS, Ga. -- The big game on New Years Day is less than three weeks away. The Georgia Bulldogs are in the Rose Bowl, fighting the Oklahoma Sooners.
The teams will be battling for the right to play in the national championship game in Atlanta a week later. This first-ever game between the two schools comes with a first-ever family feud.
One sister is a Sooner. The other sister is a Bulldog.
They grew up going hard for the Sooners.
"Kiki and I wore cheerleading outfits, you know, went to all the games," said UGA freshman Caitlyn Greene.
She and her twin sister, who turned 19 in September, are from Oklahoma, taught as soon as they could speak to sing along with their parents, "Sooner born and Sooner bred and when I die I'll be Sooner dead."
The Greene sisters say they're best friends. It's been that way since they were children growing up with a mom and dad who both went to Oklahoma University.
"We were inseparable. We wanted to sleep in the same bed until we were 10 and then my mom told us you know you have to move up to the top bunk, one of you," Caitlyn said.
"It was hard to decide to move away from her but I think it was good for both of us. Because neither one of us had ever you know, walked in somewhere alone and met somebody alone."
The first time they were truly apart is when Kiki decided earlier this year to follow in her parents' footsteps at Oklahoma, and Caitlyn decided earlier this year to become a Dawg. The possibility of the two schools meeting at the Rose Bowl was not on their minds as they transitioned into college life.
Caitlyn said she and Kiki never could have predicted that their teams would ever face each other, much less in the Rose Bowl, much less in a playoff for the national championship game.
So, Caitlyn and Kiki of course are trash-talking each other on FaceTime and in texts, constantly and mercilessly.
"My dad, he knew that Georgia and OU had never played. So he was like, 'no way that the one year you guys separate and go to different schools that those schools will play for the first time,'" Caitlyn said.
The twins are excited.
“They [Caitlyn's family in Oklahoma] just love to, you know, send me the stats especially since Baker [Mayfield[ just won the Heisman. They love to talk about that. But, I think they're underestimating us. I think they really are,” Caitlyn said.
"It's kind of fun when I talk to her friends in Georgia. They talk to me about how they're going to beat us and I said that we're going to beat them and so it's just a fun little joke, I guess, to kind of beat up on each other about it," Kiki said.
This sibling rivalry of sorts hasn't put a wrinkle in their bond, especially since Kiki is a closeted UGA fan.
"She will lie to you and say she's not. But until O-U was playing Georgia, she was a huge Dawgs fan," Caitlyn said.
As for the game on New Year's Day, the sisters plan to cheer for their respective teams with family and friends--at their home in Oklahoma, full of Sooners. Caitlyn, though, isn't worried about being one of a few UGA fans in the room that day, saying, "I'll have, like, three Georgia fans against about 30. So it's just going to be hard for me, but I'll definitely be cheering very loudly."
Whatever happens at the game...when it's over Caitlyn said, "She's my best friend, still."
