Rivalry Thread

[Armchair_QB]

Who is LSU's top rival?

Proper hygiene.

 

[Cosmo]

Virginia Tech-Virginia would be on this list, but UVa hasn't actually participated in the football rivalry in the last decade or so.

 

[albert77]

Who is LSU's top rival?

Used to be Tulane, but that ship sailed years ago. Although they've tried to make LSU-Arkansas into a rivalry, I'd say right now, LSU's biggest rival is Ole Miss.

 

[I Should Coco]

Michigan-Michigan State is much more bitter than people outside the state realize.

Yes ... although their best, most competitive rivalry lately is probably hockey.

A match-up that isn't a rivalry yet but will become one rather quickly is Iowa-Nebraska.

Without looking it up, I think these two had a matchup at Kinnick at some point during the 1990s. Must have been tailgating nirvana!

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Michigan-Michigan State is much more bitter than people outside the state realize.

Yes ... although their best, most competitive rivalry lately is probably hockey.

A match-up that isn't a rivalry yet but will become one rather quickly is Iowa-Nebraska.

Without looking it up, I think these two had a matchup at Kinnick at some point during the 1990s. Must have been tailgating nirvana!

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

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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

 

[cyclingwriter]

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.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

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.

 

[rmanfredi]

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.

 

[Deeper_Background]

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

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Ohio-Ohio State.

But that was in trademark court.

 

[CarltonBanks]

Army-Navy is a great rivalry. I would agree that it is probably the coolest rivalry in college football, but I can't see how it is bigger today than Michigan-Ohio State or Bama-Auburn.

The coolest rival games I've ever been to are Army-Navy and Florida-Georgia.

The biggest rivals are Ohio State-Michigan and Bama-Auburn.

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.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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

Looks like Ted Turner's alcoholic brother

 

[93Devil]

Who is LSU's top rival?

Les Miles?

 

[Beef03]

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.

 

[Mozilla]

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

 

[Small Town Guy]

I've been to Alabama-Auburn, Michigan-Michigan State, Texas-Oklahoma and Texas A&M-Texas.

UA-AU is light years ahead of any of the others.The one I attended wound up being Mike Shula's last game at Bama and damn, that was an ugly crowd.

Michigan-Michigan State is much more bitter than people outside the state realize.

Also, LSU-Ole Miss has some deep-seated and long-established hatred as well.

A match-up that isn't a rivalry yet but will become one rather quickly is Iowa-Nebraska.

Johnnies-Tommies?

Or does one of the teams have to win more than two games in 20 years for it to be heated?

I saw Gophers-Badgers mentioned. I'm sorry, but the Gophers of the last 40 years can not be anyone's rival, especially a team who has more fans than the Gophers do - in Minnesota's home stadium.

 

[dixiehack]

I don't think a rivalry between neighboring states can reach the animosity level of an in-state blood feud. Having to live and work beside the enemy angries up the blood. And I say that as a Bama fan more emotionally invested in beating UT than winning the Iron Bowl.

 

[ColdCat]

Wabash-DePauw

 

[Blitz]

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.

Ole Miss people look at LSU as THEIR top rival aside from MSU but I wouldn't say that reciprocates in Bayou country.
Ask (and observe) LSU fans and I think you'll get the resounding feeling that Alabama is their top rival. That's the game they really get up for lots more than for Ole Miss or for the relatively new "Boot" game against Arkansas.