Rivalry Thread

[Chef2]

Seeing the thread about the Red Rive(r) Rivalry incident got me wondering.

What is the most heated college football rivalry in America?

I offer up the following; (in no particular order)

Kansas-Missouri
Kansas-Kansas St
Duke-North Carolina (basketball)
Texas-Oklahoma
Oklahoma-Oklahoma St.
Notre Dame-Michigan
Ohio St.-Michigan
Michigan-Michigan St.
Florida-Florida St.
Miami-Florida St.
Arizona-Arizona St.
USC-UCLA
Oregon-Oregon St.
West Virginia-Pitt

any others you can think of.......

 

[JakeandElwood]

Missouri - Nebraska
Oklahoma - Nebraska
Texas - Texas A&M
Florida St. - Miami
Georgia - Georgia Tech
Florida - Georgia
Florida - Tennessee
Auburn - Alabama
Virginia Tech - Miami
Minnesota - Wisconsin
USC - Notre Dame
Notre Dame - Michigan
All of the service academies against each other
Colorado - Nebraska
Colorado - Colorado State
Arizona - Arizona State
Washington - Washington St.
Oregon - Oregon State
Stanford - Notre Dame
Stanford - California
USC - UCLA

And so many more.

 

[CarltonBanks]

Kent-Akron...the Wagon Wheel is a helluva prize.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I don't think anything touches Bama-Auburn.

I think Ohio State-Michigan would be a distant second.

 

[CarltonBanks]

I think Texas-Texas A&M, Ohio St-Michigan and Auburn-Alabama are about tied.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I think Texas-Texas A&M, Ohio St-Michigan and Auburn-Alabama are about tied.

A&M isn't even Texas' top rivalry.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Texas-Oklahoma would have been my No. 3.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Part of the problem in the SEC, each good team has at least two legitimate big rivalries.

Who is Florida's biggest rival? Georgia, Florida State and Tennessee are all legit answers.

At least with Ohio State-Michigan and Auburn-Alabama nobody would ever argue that any other game on the schedule means more to the fanbase.

 

[I Should Coco]

I'm thinking Army-Navy tops this list.

Bama-Auburn, Michigan-Ohio State, Texas-Oklahoma and maybe Ole Miss-Mississippi St. are the next tier.

Rivalries don't seem to get as crazy out west, although BYU-Utah is always interesting.

 

[DanOregon]

The Kansas-Missouri thing - hard to beat something that started before football and basketball were invented.
Same with Ohio State and Michigan.

A lot of the others? Out of staters fighting battles for people who never went to either school.

 

[93Devil]

OU/Texas
Michigan/Ohio State
Army/Navy
Bama/Auburn

That's the list.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Army/Navy first.
Michigan/Ohio State, of course.
Alabama/Auburn
Notre Dame/USC

Harvard/Yale needs to be mentioned, and it hasn't been.

 

[playthrough]

The battle for the Old Oaken Bucket -- Indiana/Purdue

Hey, they don't have to be good teams to be a rivalry.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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.

 

[albert77]

It's hardly ever an important game on the national scene, but as far as intensity goes it's hard to beat the Egg Bowl: Ole Miss-Miss. State.

As far as sports goes, it's not just a football rivalry; they want beat each other's brains out in basketball and baseball as well.

But it's a lot deeper than a sports rivalry. Like Bama-Auburn, it's cultural and economic rivalry. It's the Delta/Jackson nexus vs. the hills; culture vs. agriculture; gentry vs. the peons, etc.

Let me put it this way: my dad came from a staunch MSU family, but he went to Ole Miss because he wanted to be a Navy pilot and they had an NROTC program, while State didn't. That's been more than 60 years ago, and to a certain extent some of his family have never quite forgiven him for it.

 

[Armchair_QB]

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.

 

[Armchair_QB]

It's hardly ever an important game on the national scene, but as far as intensity goes it's hard to beat the Egg Bowl: Ole Miss-Miss. State.

As far as sports goes, it's not just a football rivalry; they want beat each other's brains out in basketball and baseball as well.

But it's a lot deeper than a sports rivalry. Like Bama-Auburn, it's cultural and economic rivalry. It's the Delta/Jackson nexus vs. the hills; culture vs. agriculture; gentry vs. the peons, etc.

Let me put it this way: my dad came from a staunch MSU family, but he went to Ole Miss because he wanted to be a Navy pilot and they had an NROTC program, while State didn't. That's been more than 60 years ago, and to a certain extent some of his family have never quite forgiven him for it.

Starkville is in Oktibbeha County and I had a Ole Miss alum tell one time that Oktibbeha is an old Choctaw word that means 'trailer park".

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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.

Of the ones I've been to...

The best:
1. Bama-Auburn
2. Ohio State-Michigan
3. OU-Texas

The coolest:
1. Army-Navy
2. Florida-Georgia
3. Nebraska-Oklahoma

Underrated:
1. Stanford-Cal
2. Oregon-Oregon State (Even when both teams were mediocre/bad)
3. BYU-Utah

 

[JakeandElwood]

Who is LSU's top rival?

 

[Armchair_QB]

Another SEC one people don't talk about much is Georgia-Auburn.