re: Is LSU/Ole Miss not a rivalry game?

It is a rivalry but it's not an in-state rivalry. LSU's historic rival from the days of the flying wedge and the old SEC and even through the 1980s was Tulane -- that was LSU's game during "rivalry week" at the end of November. That rivalry is dead. LSU is left with Ole Miss and Alabama which games certainly have a lot of history, but not the same kind of in-state intensity.