Posted on 11/26/2008 11:13:02 AM PST by bobjam
It's Rivalry Week in the world of college football! In honor of this wonderful time of the football year, I have assembled a list of ten games that the true fan of college football should attend at least once in a lifetime. The games are listed in no particular order:
1) USC vs UCLA: This is Hollywood vs the rest of Los Angeles
2) California Berkley vs Stanford: The peace-niks vs the tree huggers (or the other way around). This shows that even leftist wackos enjoy college football.
3) Texas vs Oklahoma: The Red River Shootout. Yes, I said "Shootout" and not "Challenge" or "Rivalry" or "Showdown" or some other PC garbage.
4) Colorado vs Nebraska: Boulder vs Lincoln- this is turning into a nice cultural battle.
5) Ohio State vs Michigan: This dates back to the war fought between Michigan and Ohio over Toledo. They say Ohio lost.
6) Alabama vs Auburn: The Iron Bowl.
7) Florida vs Georgia: The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Anybody who has been there knows exactly way it's called that.
8) Army vs Navy: One of the few games to be found on television where the players don't trash talk, engage in attnetion grabbing celebrations after a tackle, or commit stupid penalties.
9) Harvard vs Yale: Northeastern elitists' version of tailgating and a rivalry can be amusing. The MIT students usually have something planned for this one.
10) Notre Dame vs BYU: This game isn't played every years, no teams mix football and religion more than these two.
Some Honorable Mentions: FAMU vs Howard Kansas vs Missouri Washinton vs Washington St Lehigh vs Lafayette Grambling vs Southern Minnesota vs Wisconsin
Add Gators v. Noles
USC plays Notre Dame this weekend.
I bet the Tailgate Parties have Chablis and Brie..............
FAMU and Bethune Cookman play in the FL Classic...that’s a rivalry...bands are good too
USC (I am a proud alum!!!) is hardly “Hollywood” since it’s located in the big, fat, middle of gang territory. And who cares where UCLA is?
ND better wear their gold helmets!!
That’s a good one, but I already have Florida counted against Georgia. I avoide counting one team twice- hence there’s no Michigan-Notre Dame or Texas-Texas A&M
All of which are more interesting to me than the superbowl. Which is one of the many reasons I am not interested in a college football playoff.
I am so dun with all of these media types (who would make big bucks off of a college playoff) insisting that only college presidents oppose playoffs.
Grew up with the Harvard/Yale game.
Yeah, but USC keeps running commercials that feature Hollywood alumni; and they have a good film school.
Gators vs the world.
FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!
The perfect excuse not to do ANYTHING around the house, eat fattening foods, and drink beer!!!
It would be worth it just for that!
“I bet the Tailgate Parties have Chablis and Brie.............. “
You can get just as drunk off of Chablis as...
The USC film school rejected Steven Spielberg!!! I rest my case.
While Florida / Georgia is a huge game, the rivalry has lost some of it’s luster since the Mighty Gators have won 16 of the last 19 games. But I’m not complaining, mind you.
GO GATORS!!! Beat the ‘Noles and ‘Bama!
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Actually FAMU vs Bethune-Cookman is a bigger rivalry...they draw huge crowds in Orlando for that one
BYU-Utah...the Holy War...is bigger than Notre Dame-BYU..and BYU-Utah is the biggest rivalry in the Rockies
Clemson-South Carolina is traditionally a nasty game...and a big post0game fight a few yrs ago led to Lou Holtz getting pushed out
Texas-Texas A&M is huge...do they still take the winner to the Chicken Ranch?
Oregon-Oregon State is the better PAC-10 rivalry...the Civil War
And I miss former huge rivalry games like Nebraska-Oklahoma, Penn State-Pittsburgh, and Auburn-Florida
Number 6?
Anyone who has lived in Alabama around game time can tell you that this is number 1, without a doubt.
Alabama/Auburn. Lock the thread.
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