Well, I certainly agree with the Cal. - Stanford but also with the Notre Dame - USC rivalry. Maybe "several" was an exaggeration, but it definitely belongs on there.
The Texas games have not only inter-conference implications, there are intra-state honors involved, not to mention the general dislike of the tree-huggers at t.u. by Aggies.
When one school mentions another in its fight song for 100 years, I think that's a rivalry:
Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck!
Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck!
Goodbye to Texas University,
So long to the Orange and the White.
Good luck to the dear old Texas Aggies,
They are the boys who show the fight.
The eyes of Texas are upon you,
That is the song they sing so well,
So, goodbye to Texas University,
We're going to beat you all to ----
Chig-gar-roo-gar-rem!
Chig-gar-roo-gar-rem!
Rough! Tough!
Real stuff! Texas A&M!
I'm an "Aggie Dad", love that song, but can't claim to know a lot about the traditions. I do recall many years ago when Kern Tipps used to broadcast the games on radio, he told a very moving story nearly every year about how an Aggie wrote that song in 1918, standing on the banks of the Rhine. Was this true or not?
And what is it about you guys standing the entire game and kissing your date if the Aggies happen to 'score?' One year as we were getting ready to go to the game I was hanging out in a buddy's room at a high rise dorm on the Drag. We had Water & Shaving Cream Balloons ready to drop on Aggie fans but we got lucky and dropped them on members of the A&M Corps.
After all these years my buddies and a laugh at that antic every two years when the Aggies come to town.