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re: College football matchups you're surprised haven't happened more often or at all?

Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:44 pm to
Posted by Krampus
Member since Nov 2018
5897 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:44 pm to
A&M and Oklahoma. Outside the 15 or so years we were both in the Big 12 there are very few matchups.
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
7888 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:50 pm to
Alabama has never played University of Virginia in college football.
Posted by au7342
Member since May 2020
429 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:05 pm to
quote:

Auburn vs ND


Cowards. Dey Skeered.

And we're going to flip their QB recruit.
Posted by GetPiggywithIt
We suck at football
Member since Dec 2022
4256 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:30 pm to
An here's all the power conference teams we've never played in football, in no certain order.
Notre Dame- will change next year
Utah- on the schedule in a few years from now
Florida St
Virginia
Maryland
Pitt
Syracuse
West Virginia
Boston College
Michigan St
Illinois
Indiana
Purdue
Colorado
Washington
Oregon
Arizona
NC St
Wake Forrest
Clemson
Louisville
Oregon St
Washington St



This post was edited on 9/6/24 at 1:31 pm
Posted by Landmass
Premium Member
Member since Jun 2013
25419 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:36 pm to
Ole Miss & Clemson. We've only played twice (Ole Miss winning both) way back in 1928 and 1933.
Posted by Chad4Bama
Member since Sep 2020
9210 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:38 pm to
quote:

Alabama has never played University of Virginia in college football.


Virginia hasn't been relevant very often so little chance of meeting in a bowl game.

It's stranger how Bama has never played Oregon...especially over the past 20 years.
Posted by Windy City
Member since Jun 2019
2259 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:40 pm to
Texas has never played Florida State

Oklahoma has never played Michigan State

A&M has never played

Air Force
Arizona
Minnesota
Navy
Oregon
Oregon State
Syracuse
Virginia
Wisconsin




This post was edited on 9/6/24 at 1:47 pm
Posted by theballguy
Huntsville Alabama
Member since Oct 2011
36296 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:52 pm to
This.

Still feel like Bama and Georgia don't play often enough.

Even as a Bama fan living in Georgia I've gone to many games in Athens but hardly Bama/Georgia matchups.

Always had a great time.

We joke about Georgia copying Bama but really the fanbases (and in general Georgians and Alabamians) are very very similar.
This post was edited on 9/6/24 at 1:53 pm
Posted by theballguy
Huntsville Alabama
Member since Oct 2011
36296 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:53 pm to
quote:

Alabama has never played University of Virginia in college football.



And I don't think we ever need to tbh.
Posted by DawginSC
Member since Aug 2022
7827 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:56 pm to
quote:

Still feel like Bama and Georgia don't play often enough.

Even as a Bama fan living in Georgia I've gone to many games in Athens but hardly Bama/Georgia matchups.

Always had a great time.

We joke about Georgia copying Bama but really the fanbases (and in general Georgians and Alabamians) are very very similar.


For me, Bama is a team that's fun to play a big game against, but isn't a rival in any real sense. There's always been a bit of shock when Bama fans have gone after UGA in recent years simply because it's like Arkansas or Mississippi State or LSU getting worked up over UGA. There's really no reason for bad feelings in either direction with any of those teams.

We play all of them less often than we play Clemson in the regular season
Posted by boston vol
Lexington-Fayette, KY
Member since Sep 2015
6965 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:57 pm to
Tennessee has played both Michigan and Ohio State only once in their history. Given the way the bowl tie-ins were set up from the late '80s to the early '10s, you would have expected those matchups to happen more often.
Posted by PawnShop
Deep Woods of the Nat'l Forest
Member since Oct 2022
457 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:58 pm to
Arkansas versus Vanderbilt. We never seemed to get this matchup, and when it was finally about to roll back around, Boom, Aggy and Mizzy join and discombobulate everything, so we wait again, and just before our time here comes Okie and the Sips into the conference.
Posted by theballguy
Huntsville Alabama
Member since Oct 2011
36296 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 2:01 pm to
quote:

For me, Bama is a team that's fun to play a big game against, but isn't a rival in any real sense.


Feels the same to me.

I also feel the same with playing LSU or Clemson.

I love to kid around but I have a lot of respect for teams like Georgia, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma and Clemson.

Except for maybe Clemson to a degree, I usually root for these teams when they're not playing us.
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
19725 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 2:33 pm to
Kentucky v Ohio State and West Virginia
Posted by mtnhighTiger
Scottsdale, AZ
Member since Jan 2010
4470 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 2:36 pm to
Would be cool to do a home/home with them. Seeing LSU in the big house would be glorious.
Posted by Jrv2damac
KS
Member since Mar 2004
73098 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 2:41 pm to
A&M and Navy avoid each other because of a conjugal conflict of interest

Posted by IvIerlot
Knoxville, TN
Member since Oct 2022
855 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 2:46 pm to
Tennessee played Michigan for the first time in 2002 and our TE outran their entire secondary.
Posted by Taurus 357
Great Lakes
Member since Dec 2014
5696 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 2:47 pm to
Buckeyes vs Ole Miss Rebs. Make it happen. Hasn’t happened so far. I’d like to see OSU- GA again because that game with stroud and Bennett a couple years ago was one of the best games in the last 20 years. Someone had to win and someone had to lose but that was an epic game
Posted by NaturalStateReb
Arkansas
Member since Jun 2012
1627 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 4:24 pm to
Arkansas/Oklahoma
Arkansas/Arkansas State--first meeting ever next year
Auburn/Troy--never met
Ole Miss/Texas--only met 5 times, just twice since 1925
Posted by Buckeye06
Member since Dec 2007
25222 posts
Posted on 9/6/24 at 4:41 pm to
quote:

Ohio St/Texas- only 3 meetings



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