Rivalry Thread

I'd be surprised if that happened. During the 1990s, Nebraska almost never played anyone decent in non-conference games.

 

You were right. They played in 1999 in Iowa City and in 2000 in Lincoln.

 

Kermit vs. all non soccer fans...

I will throw a lost rivalry out there. Penn State vs. Notre Dame....that used to shut down large sections of PA when I was kid in the 1980s and early 1990s. I remember regular fistfights about that game in my school.

 

LSU's top rival changes. No true rival who considers LSU its main rival.

But Ole Miss is as close as it gets for spanning generations.

 

Did I miss it, or did no one mention Notre Dame vs. Miami, aka Catholics vs. Convicts? I know they haven't played each other in a regular season game since 1990, but they'll be playing again in 2012 and starting a yearly series back up a few years after that. It's hard to argue against it being the most compelling football rivalry (for athletic and sociological reasons) in the 1980s.

As a USC alum, I wouldn't put the USC/Notre Dame rivalry as a "heated" rivalry - at this point, it's one that's based on mutual respect and smugness. I would say there's more hatred in the UCLA rivalry (thanks largely to geographic), even if the Bruins' falling down the proverbial football well has sucked some of the starch out of that game as well.

 

Sporting a "Remember Quantrill" shirt and a "Burn-KU" license plate, Missouri fan Tom Mendenhall cheers on the Tigers in the first half of the KU-MU game

 

Ohio-Ohio State.

But that was in trademark court.

 

I think the festivities surrounding the Florida-Georgia game are the best of all rivalries. Now if they could just move the game out of such a boring city.

 

Looks like Ted Turner's alcoholic brother

 

Les Miles?

 

Also regarding Texas/Texas A&M: Texas A&M/Texas Tech has been far more bitter recently. Far more mutual respect almost in the Texas/Texas A&M rivalry since the bonfire collapse.
At least from my perch up north here.
My 2 cents anyway.

 

Another vote for Auburn-Alabama.
Nothing else rivals what goes on in that state.