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
I bet the Tailgate Parties ARE SERVED Chablis and Brie..............there, fixed it.....
ND vs BYU? Is this guy nuts? ND vs USC involved the outcome of more national championships than any other rivalry. Nd is down now and USC was in the crapper for about ten or 15 years but the rivalry between the two over the years was probably the greatest in college football. OSU vs Michigan is big in the Midwest but I don’t think it approaches Bama vs Auburn in the South. ND vs BYU? Give me a break.
In Indiana, that seems to be one of the first questions broached when entering into any sort of relationship... romantic, business, or platonic. It sure can be a deal-breaker! lol
The only time I see both factions in agreement is when it comes to UofM or OSU. :D
Colorado fans might think it is, but Nebraska fans don't!
This newspaper summary, after a questionable call, "The Gators and Noles mixed it up at midfield after the game, caused referee Jack Childress and his officiating gang to require a police escort from The Swamp, and surely will undergo intense study of films this week, though, whatever the judgment will give no comfort to anyone. It may cause the SEC of Florida to suggest to the ACC of Florida State that a new formula for officiating this game be turned over to an unaligned conference rules crew. Now, the rule is the ACC officiates games played at Florida while the SEC officiates games played at Tallahassee, home to the Seminoles.
Perhaps that should have been the way from the start of The Series which had one other game of cry-foul magnitude in 1966 at Tallahassee that favored the Gators. FSU receiver Lane Fenner, who was called out of bounds when his catch of a pass was ruled no-score. The official in that fury was Doug Moseley who judged to have not had control of that ball while still on the playing field. Florida won that game 22-19 but film suggested it was a catch and a loss for the Gators. Then FSU Coach Bill Peterson campaigned exhorting that alleged theft for years, but no avail, and FSU boosters still have the Tampa Tribune Photo of the late Dan Fager behind the their desks in offices all over Florida. The official then, Moseley, said he was hounded for the rest of his time by angry Seminoles, by mail, by phone. There was no e-mail at the time." Thus rose the angry chant that still reverberates from the stands at FSU/Florida games, GO TO HELL FLORIDA, GO TO HELL!
Remember this one? Crocodile, not alligator, featured on cover of guide
Absolutely correct, specially this year when IU took a shellacking like I have not seen in a long time.
GO BOILERS!!
Duke is next.
1. FSU was originally FSCW (Florida State College For Women).
2. FSU had only played football for about 15 years.
3. Florida was in the SEC, which meant they were like Gods, while FSU was an independent and looked upon by Florida with contempt.
4. FSU had never beaten Florida, and no SEC Official worth his bourbon would ever allow an FSU win.
5. Steve Spurrier was a Heisman winning QB and acted like only Steve Spurrier can.
6. The game was a tumultuous affair and Florida was leading by a gnats arse as the clock wound down. With the game on the line, FSU threw a “bomb” to Lane Fenner, an unheralded bench warmer, who grabbed the ball with a diving catch, hit the end zone and skidded out of bounds. The nearest referee signaled touchdown! Campbell Stadium went wild with screaming, cheering students.
7. Suddenly a referee far from the action came up and over ruled the completion.
8. The stadium exploded with angry fans who knew what the SEC Referee had done. They screamed for him to “GO TO HELL!” The taunt just seemed to fit, and the next years before the FSU/Florida game, “GO TO HELL FLORIDA” was the cry. Even now, it sends shivers down the old Noles spines and enrages Gators.
5) Ohio State vs Michigan
My favorite, being a Buckeye. Been an odd one the last several years, though. Under Cooper, OSU may as well have not shown up. Oh, wait, most years they didn’t. Under Tressel, Michigan may as well stay home. Oh, wait, they essentially do.
We’ll see what Rodriguez can do to revive Michigan. He certainly did not get off to a good start this year...
You forgot Notre Dame and of lately Ball State.
BTW, with a screen name like nodumbblonde you must be a Purdue grad or a fan since this would be impossible coming from a Bloomington critter. ;-)
Regards.
No, I’m not nuts. I already counted USC and Alabama in their respective rivalries against UCLA and Auburn. The point about BYU vs Notre Dame was the mixing of religion and college football- Mormons vs Irish Catholics.
Yeah, but arguably the greatest play in the history of football ocurred in a Cal-Stanford game “...and the band is all over the field...”
I just can’t see that as a rivalry. If you are going by religion you might try Notre Dame (Catholic) vs Boston College (claim to be Catholic). There actually is some hatred between these two schools.
Uh, no. Try UTAH vs. byU and you'd have my total agreement.
I think a lot of Nebraksa fans I've talked to and read here that they hate OU more than CU. aft_lizard, what do you have for us?
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