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10 Great Football Rivalries
26 November 2008 | bobjam

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


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To: All

The Egg Bowl (Ole Miss v Miss State) deserves honorable mention.

I used to love it when ESPN would broadcast the game on Thanksgiving night.


81 posted on 11/26/2008 8:56:22 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: bobjam; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Texas Tech v. Oklahoma (not)


82 posted on 11/26/2008 10:33:10 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Rippin

What does you liking rivalries have to with the absurd opinion of not wanting a playoff? Either you are a college president, or the only human being on the planet who is satisfied the way things are.


83 posted on 11/27/2008 3:48:52 AM PST by Flightdeck (Go Longhorns)
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To: bobjam

What? UConn vs Syracuse didn’t make your top ten? ;O)


84 posted on 11/27/2008 3:51:13 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: bobjam
Army-Navy has a special place, of course.

Until the formation of the Big 12 conference several years ago, you could have included OU/Nebraska on the list as well.

Now it's an on-two, off-two schedule now, notwithstanding any matchups in the conference championship, which hasn't happened yet.

Generally speaking, the Nebraska folks are probably about the best fans in the game.

85 posted on 11/27/2008 6:52:23 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: GOP_Raider
Ahhh... Iron Bowl time!! Statewide it's right up there with Mardi Gras!! I can't imagine a better rivalry. Both sides of the ball hold dear traditions that revolve around this game. THIS is college football in the SOUTH! One team is trying to maintain the #1 spot and have a shot at the big time and the other has struggled thur a difficult season, yet many believe all the stats reset to 0-0 for the Iron Bowl. We'll see on Saturday.

That being said, I will now confess that I want this win so bad I can taste it!! Win or lose, Alabama has had a great season and Coach Saban and those boys have worked hard all year and have grown in maturity and intensity. The young men in Crimson deserve to win this Iron Bowl! I hope we dominate the field for 60 minutes... I wouldn't even mind running up the score on this game!! lol


86 posted on 11/27/2008 7:08:24 AM PST by sweet_diane ("They hate us 'cause they ain't us." Roll TIDE ROLL!)
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To: bobjam
7) Florida vs Georgia: The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Anybody who has been there knows exactly way it's called that...my dawgs let us down weren't ready to play and that is all the coach's fault, however unpopular I am.

Georgia plays Georgia Tech this weekend. This has been argued in every office, restaurant, home, crop field and anything else you can think of in Georgia this week. Big Game for Georgia.

And my home Hubby is a tech fan ugh the only problem is if tech wins I will be more pissed than he, if Georgia wins.

87 posted on 11/27/2008 4:06:05 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
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To: js1138
Gators vs the world.

Damn straight!

88 posted on 11/27/2008 4:07:46 PM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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To: piytar
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.


89 posted on 11/27/2008 4:10:02 PM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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To: GOP_Raider

Damn right! I’ll be in the stands Saturday. ROLL TIDE ROLL!


90 posted on 11/27/2008 7:38:43 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bamahead
Have fun bamahead!! I know BDS will be ROCKIN'!!

Roll TIDE ROLL!

(Hopefully we'll both being singing Rammer Jammer at the top of our lungs until we can't talk anymore) lol Course I'll be singing from my living room, but you might hear me in T-town. :)

91 posted on 11/28/2008 6:21:14 AM PST by sweet_diane ("They hate us 'cause they ain't us." Roll TIDE ROLL!)
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To: bobjam
IMHO, part of what makes a rivalry great is at least one of the teams (preferably both) need to be playing for something: A bowl game, a #1 ranking, a league championship. Nothing makes a rivalry stronger then when the weaker of the two upsets the higher ranked of the two and knocks them off of their pedestal.

That being said, I would say that 'The Big Game' (Stanford-Cal) is greatly overated.

92 posted on 11/29/2008 8:29:51 AM PST by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: reagandemocrat
Ten 'words':

1931, 1932, 1939, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, 2003, 2004.

93 posted on 11/29/2008 8:33:57 AM PST by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: stainlessbanner

I have two words for today’s game:

Tee Bow.

Yes, the rumors are true, he can divide by zero.


94 posted on 11/29/2008 8:53:10 AM PST by Eagle Eye (Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
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To: Paco

But that line of red all the way along I-70 from Lincoln to Boulder every other year tells of their interest!


95 posted on 11/29/2008 8:56:03 AM PST by Eagle Eye (Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
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To: TexasNative2000

I only saw one other reference to the TU/A&M rivalry. How can it be left off any list?????


96 posted on 11/29/2008 9:00:32 AM PST by mathluv (The Barracuda and the Maverick will take on the Messiah and the Mouth)
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To: Hardastarboard
It is the purity and love of the game at the academic amateur level. /s
97 posted on 11/29/2008 9:01:01 AM PST by Eagle Eye (Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
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To: Sine_Pari

It really has been a lot of fun watching Ball State’s run this season!

I don’t get to watch many college games but I always root for *mumble*UofM*mumble*. Why tick off a few people when you can infuriate an entire state, right? :(


98 posted on 11/29/2008 12:55:33 PM PST by nodumbblonde (Apologies: Due to the coming economic crisis, I've had to let my tagline go.)
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To: bobjam
I used to like Oregon State Vs Fresno State.

The Fresno student section would try to hit the visiting players in the head with beer bottles. Very classy.

99 posted on 11/29/2008 12:57:05 PM PST by Tramonto (0bamanation)
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To: Eagle Eye

Indeed it does, we bleed Husker red out here and we’re loyal to the end.


100 posted on 11/30/2008 8:25:44 AM PST by Paco
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