go up against

"I want to go up against the best. I don't feel that my ability is in question."

In his first outing, eventual eight-time nominee Peter O’Toole saw his towering “Lawrence of Arabia” performance go up against Gregory Peck’s beloved Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

I want to be the best and you've got to go up against the best.

"I'd like to go up against Bryson and try and get him back for what he did to me at the US Open," he said.

She said being asked to come up with an original to go up against the usual suspects was "such a fun challenge".