re: Help me understand the rivalry (lsu, A&M, texas….

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And you continue to melt

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Laughing is not melting. The entire country sees it now. It's not a melt. It's not even an LSU thingy.

It's ironic, really.

Uhhhm, they kinda like eating dick so that's not the insult you think it is.

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My sense, as a Texas fan.

OU - biggest rivalry. In name, Main state school v. main state school, helped by a unique neutral site game. Both schools have the most historical success in their states, so there is some grudging respect. Feels intense in Dallas just because so many OU alums around here.

A&M - good rivalry, hurt by last decade, but so many alums around the entire state always lots of ribbing going on, helped by A&Ms weirdness. I think this rivalry will be better now than it was in the past, just because in recent history the two never seemed to be good at the same time.

LSU - no rivalry to speak of, hope it becomes a thing. Wish they just played every game in New Orleans.

Arkansas - seems like Texas sends lots of its students to Arkansas these days so that can help revive this old rivalry.

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My sense a guy who grew up in Texas in a Sooner household, went to A&M, and married a Longhorn whose whole family is burnt orange to the core.

Texas/OU - One of the Granddaddy rivalries of all time that built its rep on the high points of the two programs from the 1950s through the 1970s. The neutral site status in a major metro area has made it an annual bash for dedicated alums for years. I loved going to it with my family in the 80s and still enjoy watching it. I avoid the State Fair on Gamedays. The financial realities of college football have made these two schools more of a pack recently.

The rivalry has wobbled a bit the last 25 years or so as one team seems to be up while the other is down.

Texas/Texas A&M - It was for many years up until the late 1970s truly a rivalry fueled by A&Ms generally inferior status financially and academically and a degree of class warfare as the small town Ag kids in the Corps took on their larger city-dwelling neighbors.

Since A&M has blew up and improved greatly on almost every front starting in the 1980s, it is more of a faux rivalry as suddenly just as many kids from suburban Houston or Dallas are now at A&M studying finance with plans to work at a consulting firm. There is just so much more common ground between the two schools. No one seemed all that sad when the rivalry ended except for a few really loud die-hards who "Hate TU" because their Dad and Grandad and Great Grandad also hated TU.

Arkansas - Once meant something in the Nixon era but they have been gone so long no one really cares anymore.

LSU - No rivalry there. The SEC tried to manufacture one but nothing kindled.

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Oklahoma is our rival

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Wut?

Hate level:

TAMU - 10/10
Never understood how uppity Texas fans dismiss this game as anything other than hate (except 1999). I want them to lose everything from quidditch to football.

OU - 8/10
Except when we play in Dallas, it’s 10/10.
I figured this out when TAMU played OU in the cotton bowl with JFF

PIG - 7/10
I don’t remember much from the rivalry except when my mom would tell me about it. Fayetnam….. game of the century etc…. I have trashy family members in DFW who like the pigs. No idea why. Annoying.

LSU - 1/10
Maybe that changes. But, I love anything anti TAMU. And it seems every LSU poster makes every TAMU poster look like a child in a man’s game on this site.

Hookem fellas.

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And it seems every LSU poster makes every TAMU poster look like a child in a man’s game on this site.

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aTm came off very obnoxious when they first joined the SEC and found this site. And they respected Bama so much it was nauseating, if not, homoerotic at times.

Had they just joined and tried not to duplicate us and found their own way; it wouldn't be so bitter.

At least on our end.

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OU is like your Florida and TAMU is like your Georgia Tech with less success. Arkansas is like your Auburn.

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This is very, very wrong. I’m an LSU fan and I’m 36, you will get a lot of different answers from LSU fans since we have no in state rival.

1) Auburn and UGA is a bigger rivalry than Texas and Arkansas. UGA is just new to success (and you can tell by the way they act) and Auburn hasn’t been good in a long time.

2) Bama was by far LSU’s most hated from 2012-2019, some haven’t changed but many have, however, it hasn’t been the same since Saban started slowing down and had to start relying on phantom titles no one outside of Bama acknowledges or even remembers, and freak occurrences that put him in position to lose yet another mulligan against a team that already beat their asses. As a result, and Bama fans will never admit it, but a lot of us don’t take Bama as seriously anymore, because Bama fans are stupid as hell and for the most part, horrible and disgusting people who contribute very little to society.

3) Iron Bowl is the biggest rivalry game in the SEC and when Auburn is good, it’s not even close.

4) Florida will always be hated because of how bad they beat us in the 90s. I still consider 1997 to be the biggest regular season win of my lifetime.

5) aTm fans have climbed up the list especially for those of us that live in Texas. They’re smarter than Bama fans which makes them more annoying, and unlike Bama fans, they aren’t completely worthless people, and have money, which makes them more dangerous.