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Ten Rivalries to Witness College football passion covers the width and breadth of the many social, economic, racial, regional and religious subcultures in America. From Boston Brahmins (Harvard) to Hollywood fashion (USC), from Southern tradition (Alabama) to California progressives (Stanford), from Catholics (Notre Dame) to Mormons (BYU) to hippies (Cal), everyone has a team to cheer for. Below are 10 games that highlight that spectrum of passion, pageantry and pride (listed in approximate order of occurance during the season): Texas vs Oklahoma: The Longhorns, the Sooners and the Texas State Fair recall how so much of our culture is derived...

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"...

It's a Great day for some college football!!!

Here are the picks of several college football dignitaries along with Clucko the Chicken. Put down two feed dishes, one representing one team and one representing another and whichever dish the chicken goes to first is the team that's going to win. You'll do just as well. (Really, the pick is a coin flip. Don't laugh; Clucko won the 2000 Bowl Pool among 24 entrants.) You can get to the Expert Picks in the above dropdown under Predictions. The pickers: Pete Fiutak - CFN, Rich Cirminiello - CFN, Matthew Zemek - CFN, Mark Risley - CFN, John Harris - CFN,...

We now understand, based on our experience in trying to liberate the citizens of Iraq from despotism, that despotism can take many forms. It is becoming more and more evident — and this is something we could not have known until we had deposed Saddam Hussein and begun to deal with the forces which reorganized and redeployed themselves after his fall — that those committed to realizing power through inflicting death and destruction will likely persist in the form of Iraqi "insurgents" for the foreseeable future. As has become clear, the notion that, after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime,...

1. Michigan vs. Ohio State (Michigan leads all-time 57-37-6) 2. Miami (FL) vs. Florida State (Miami leads all-time 29-20) 3. Alabama vs. Auburn (Alabama leads 38-28-1 according to Alabama, 38-29-1 according to Auburn) 4. Army vs. Navy(Army leads 49-48-7) 5. Oklahoma vs. Texas(Texas leads the series 55-39-5) 6. Notre Dame vs. USC(Notre Dame leads the series 42-28-5) 7. Florida vs. Georgia (Georgia leads 46-35-2. According to Florida, Georgia leads 45-35-2) 8. UCLA vs. USC (USC leads the series 39-27-7) 9. California vs. Stanford (Stanford leads 54-41-11) 10. Florida vs. Florida State (Florida leads 27-19-2)