re: Potential names for an A&M vs LSU Rivalry game?

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For the life of me, I don't understand why Arkansas won't just embrace the Mizzou game rather than attempt to keep an LSU/A&M rivalry from forming. Arkansas/Mizzou and A&M/LSU makes a whole lot more sense, geographically. Houston is the hub of the LSU/A&M activity. That's just not going to happen for Arkansas and LSU.

Mizzou, on the other hand, makes a ton of sense as a geographical rival for Arkansas.

Besides that, there really isn't any way to keep an LSU/A&M rivalry from forming. It's going to happen. If we suck for a long time, it will slow things down, but it won't stop it. And A&M won't suck forever. Too many resources. Too many recruits.

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It has nothing to do with embrace and has everything to do with the last game of the year meaning something and having major implications for the winner.

Personally, I don't care when Arkansas plays LSU because a win will count the same. However, LSU obviously wanted an easier team to finish with and A & M fits that bill. By default, Arkansas will also finish with a much easier team when we play the paper Tigers. Both games will be very anticlimactic especially when Arkansas will have already beaten both more times than not.

About the only thing riding on the LSU / A & M game at the end of the year will be to decide which team goes to a 2nd tier bowl and which team goes to a 3rd tier bowl.