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re: Best rivalry involving a SEC team?
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:09 pm to BigBlue8Titles
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:09 pm to BigBlue8Titles
I would have to say Army/Navy, Iron bowl, Michigan/Ohio State, Red River rivalry and USC/ND
Top 5 in that order
Top 5 in that order
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Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:11 pm to BigBlue8Titles
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Have you ever spent any time in Kentucky...Not talking game day but any time, even off season?
There are about 48 states in the country more important than Kentucky, so let's not act like the results of your question have any bearing on the OP topic.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:13 pm to Smoke Dogg
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I would have to say Army/Navy, Iron bowl, Michigan/Ohio State, Red River rivalry and USC/ND
Top 5 in that order
Eh.
Army-Navy is a great and beloved game, but the rivalry aspect is severely overblown. I think it is an American treasure, I just don't think it is much of a rivalry in traditional CFB terms.
The others are reasonable, although USC/ND is largely a nostalgia game rather than something with intensity or importance.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:13 pm to BigBlue8Titles
quote:I'm glad LSU doesn't have a rival. You people are knuckle draggers.
There are more families than you realize where family members won't speak to one another again for a long time because of the feeling aroused by this rivalry
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:14 pm to BigBlue8Titles
florida vs. florida state
these were epic match ups all thru the 90's and its the last game of the yr if mac is a good coach it could get back to being one of the biggest games of the yr again
these were epic match ups all thru the 90's and its the last game of the yr if mac is a good coach it could get back to being one of the biggest games of the yr again
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Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:14 pm to Politiceaux
Same for A&M
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:15 pm to Smoke Dogg
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I would have to say Army/Navy, Iron bowl, Michigan/Ohio State, Red River rivalry and USC/ND
Top 5 in that order
And, those (with exception to Iron Bowl) fall outside the parameters defined in the thread title. All very good rivalries - but one of the teams must be SEC.
I'd almost say the rivalry between Alabama and Tennessee is bigger that the Iron Bowl. Then again, that 30 for 30 said otherwise
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:19 pm to WestCoastAg
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Same for A&M
I have no love for Texas, but there's something between you two that just says "let's angry frick"
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:19 pm to blacknblu
Not really
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:20 pm to Wtodd
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Agree and listing Mizzou/kU first, IMO is correct. Whereas most rivalries are based on sports, Mizzou/kU isn't. Both states have hated each other for 170 years and will until the end of time.
Or until one of you goes to another conference... then it's just not that big a deal anymore... amirite?
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:22 pm to Wtodd
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Agree and listing Mizzou/kU first, IMO is correct. Whereas most rivalries are based on sports, Mizzou/kU isn't. Both states have hated each other for 170 years and will until the end of time.
ohio state and michigan go back like 300 years
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:22 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Let me know when you all start killing things over the rivalry.
I think this speaks more to the mindset of the average Crimson Tide fan than it does about the rivalry.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:38 pm to Wtodd
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Whereas most rivalries are based on sports, Mizzou/kU isn't. Both states have hated each other for 170 years and will until the end of time.
UK/UofL is the rivalry it is because it too goes way beyond sports. For example:
1) Louisville for years recruited by telling recruits that Kentucky and UK were racist and didn't REALLY want black people on campus. Rupp has had his legacy tarnished by this to this day.
2) As a general rule, most Louisville fans in Jefferson County are black or east end white yuppies while the 50% of Jefferson County that supports UK are working class whites mostly on the south end of the city. Most of the UofL groups assume and treat the UK fans, both in Jefferson County and the state, as ignorant, redneck, backwards, racist, hillbillies and treat them with utter contempt, not just in sports but in general. There are hard feelings between Louisville and the rest of the state because of this in every facet of life. For instance, despite Louisville being 20% of the state's population, no Louisvillian has been elected Governor of the state since 1864.
3) Related to the above, the rural versus urban divide and also the fact that Louisville is a wholly Midwestern city sitting in a thoroughly southern state. Most Louisvillians have much more in common with people from Cleveland, Pittsburgh or Chicago than anywhere else in Kentucky, and so there are plenty of opportunities for hard feelings because of the inability of Louisville and the state to effectively communicate/understand the other's point of view about stuff.
UK/UofL, unlike the other rivalries cited, has less to do about sports and more to do about culture and life in general.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:38 pm to Smoke Dogg
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USC/ND
Absolutely not.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:57 pm to BigBlue8Titles
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Kentucky-Louisville rivalry eclipses all others in college athletics
no way. ain't be one dead tree.
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