What Are Your Top Rivalries In College Football That are No More?

[Crapinon 2250]

17 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

The whole thing is a troll piece.  

But we can still come here to say we hate Arkansas, can't we?

[hayden_horn 11360]

On 5/4/2021 at 12:28 AM, ChiTownDoc said:

I’ll take this as a complement.  

as a complement to what? heh.

17 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

The whole thing is a troll piece.  

and it's not really even that funny, i don't think. 

[ztejas 43266]

Would have been funnier if they didn't double down and just had Michigan/tOSU or Bama/Tennessee snuck in at #2 or #3 behind the aggy one.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

It's obvious whoever wrote it has barely a passing interest in the sport.

[Funk Doctor Spock 11923]

Along with fOSU/Michigan, we definitely need to add Bama/aggy and LSu/aggy. 

[bullzak 412]

When I was a kid my old man went to the 1969 Texas Arkansas Game of the Century on my birthday. 

One of the few intelligent things he ever did. 

Edited May 5, 2021 by bullzak

[MrPhlegm 3413]

FIU vs UM was a good one. not for the football games but for the running gun battles on campus.

[Armybrat 40744]

On 5/3/2021 at 11:13 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

Aggy v Sand Aggy had some fun games. Tech mastered getting under the Gomers’ extremely thin skin. 

Yeah, shoving goalposts up their aggy ass will do that.

[Armybrat 40744]

On 5/4/2021 at 1:59 PM, Tex Long said:

I'm gonna go with Texas - Arkansas, particularly in the Sixties when it was Saint Darrell on our side and Frank Broyles on theirn. Absolutely nothing I've seen since then really approaches, much less exceeds, that rivalry. Certainly not 0U or aTm. Lemme tell you how chickenshit it got: Arky went so far as to sell their band seating in (trying to recall...) '62 or '64, and we were stupid enough to let them put their fucking band actually on the field surface from the southwest corner along the sidelines, up to behind our benches. The '62 game we won by taking the ball away from them near our goalline, with about eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, trailing 3-0. We then spent almost the entire remaining time driving the length of the field, 19 or 20 plays, without a single pass, and converting two or three fourth downs along the way. Tommy Ford, AKA T-bird, scored from the 3-yard line with under a minute to play. 7-3, Texas.

I think the ambulance came into the stadium from the north end, drove around the track, and stretchered a heart attack off to Brack three times. 

That, my friend... that is a by God rivalry.

 

 

[Aside: That ('62 - I think '64 was the first full sub rules) was still in the days of limited substitution rules, which prevented a player from leaving the field and coming back onto the field in the same quarter - you kicked with one of the guys on the field, then you stayed on and played D, basically no specialists at all, other than what you played on O and what you played on D. Some teams would have one guy who could kick FG and XP reliably, and might sub in for that, very late in the game or close to the end of a quarter, but mostly, when possession changed, you stayed out there and played both ways.]

[Aside: Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson were players on that Razorback squad. Yes, that Jerry and that Jimmy.]

You are correct, and that last drive generated the loudest noise from the Texas fans in stadium history since then... including the Houston revenge game in the early 1980s. (With 20,000 fewer stadium seat capacity).

I will add that the Cowboys lost their shit in the excitement of that awesome & historic last drive and fired Old Smoky (the real one) every time the Horns made a first down. I read in the paper the next day that a nearby resident hearing all the cannon fire thought UT was going crazy running up the score at the end. Lol

 

 

[Armybrat 40744]

And to illustrate typical SWC “3 yards and a cloud of dust football” ...

 

[NTVTXN 1432]

On 5/4/2021 at 4:44 AM, Longboard Horn said:

Hate for Arky was greater than hate for OU when I was growing up 

This sentiment hits close to home for me. Especially since my Mom’s side of the Fam are all hillbillies. (You can’t pick your parents!) I was the only Native Texan (hence the handle) in the group, so I naturally gravitated towards UT. 
I despise the whole “WPS” hog calling stupidity (try being, what felt like, the only 🤘🏻Fan in a LOUD ASS Barnhill arena)...they’re certainly fervent about it...

[hpslugga 4044]

On 5/3/2021 at 11:16 PM, Blotto said:

He could have stopped at about 7-8 games, because there is a whole lot of "who the fuck cares" in that list.

Right I mean NDSU managed to get in there...and it wasn't even a reference to the Nickel Trophy game, either.

[Royale with cheese 1460]

It's hard for the younger crowd to really appreciate this but the Arkansas rivalry was every bit the equal of blOw-U in the sixties, and waaaay more relevant than aggy, who were just considered little wanna-be pests. At least that's what I've been told; I don't remember much about the sixties . . .

[bborange 9969]

On 5/4/2021 at 6:25 AM, PilotsError said:

It appears this joke went over most your heads.

[Vic Mackey 46936]

32 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

Texas v Arky, OU v NU, and Bama v Tenn are the top 3 by far and nothing else comes close. Fuck A&M. 

OU/NU was always great. On a smaller scale, I liked the Colorado/Nebraska games Thanksgiving weekend. Nebraska and aggy both moved to conferences where they have  no real identity, they are nobodies and all their rivalries are stripped. Rivalries in college sports are the backbone. Much more than pro sports. Same can be said for Colorado and Missouri. Both of them lost their identity. Especially Missouri. They don't fit at all in the SEC.

[markstanco 12509]

Texas vs arkie is still mine. Watching back in the late 70s and 80s at a lake house at caddo lake is where my hatred for arkie started.

Raycom sports on CBS if I recall. No pause button. Sit around and wait for the game to start.

I'm going to Fayetteville for the game this year. Can't wait.

[notre dame joe 172]

On 5/9/2021 at 5:23 PM, MrPhlegm said:

FIU vs UM was a good one. not for the football games but for the running gun battles on campus.

At the time the brawl happened I thought Miami's real embarrassment is people not know they played a school called "Florida International"  Little did I know the body bag game was about to become an annual siesta. 

[Knoxtnhorn 5936]

17 hours ago, Royale with cheese said:

It's hard for the younger crowd to really appreciate this but the Arkansas rivalry was every bit the equal of blOw-U in the sixties, and waaaay more relevant than aggy, who were just considered little wanna-be pests. At least that's what I've been told; I don't remember much about the sixties . . .

Yep.  One of my earliest memories of being a Longhorn was in listening to the TX/Arky game circa 1987 when Tony Jones won it at the end of the game.  Dad and I had to pick mom up at the airport later.  It just so happened that the Longhorn cheerleaders and some of the band were switching planes at DFW.   They were still decked out in uniforms, yelling, and going nuts.  F Arkansas.

Edited May 11, 2021 by Knoxtnhorn

[Wiler77 1558]

I get that the list is a joke, or at least the first 2 spots.

But it is an interesting topic, and at least some of the list was done in all seriousness.

Surprises me that Clemson/Georgia isn't on the list.  Should easily be in the Top 10.  that one goes back a LONG way, but they stopped playing regularly in the 80's I think.  Pretty sad considering where both the programs are today.  And the campuses are less than 100 miles from each other.

[hpslugga 4044]

10 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

I’m 43. My dad was a freshman and sophomore in ‘69/‘70. All while he was growing up, into his school years, through the 70s, and into most of the 80s, Arky was by far the most important conference rival. In those decades it was 1b to OU’s 1a. Mainly because all 3 programs were really good, with probably 7 titles amongst them. A&M did not approach these rivalries, even when I was a kid. As I got older and they got better, it changed a little, but they have never been where Arky has been in terms of overall stature and the better rivalry. 

Yeah, there aren't a lot of Texas fans who'd consider aggy the top rival, and those who do most likely started following the Horns between 1984-1994, a.k.a the decade where A&M FedExed itself into the conversation. 

[hpslugga 4044]

2 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Yep.  One of my earliest memories of being a Longhorn was in listening to the TX/Arky game circa 1987 when Tony Jones won it at the end of the game.  Dad and I had to pick mom up at the airport later.  It just so happened that the Longhorn cheerleaders and some of the band were switching planes at DFW.   They were still decked out in uniforms, yelling, and going nuts.  F Arkansas.

Ugh, gotta do everything myself:

 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

59 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

Surprises me that Clemson/Georgia isn't on the list.  Should easily be in the Top 10.  that one goes back a LONG way, but they stopped playing regularly in the 80's I think.  Pretty sad considering where both the programs are today.  And the campuses are less than 100 miles from each other.

Man that's a great one. At a glance I'd guess Clemson felt like playing Georgia regularly was a challenge it just didn't need, because it's kind of a lopsided series, but it was great back in the day. 

I don't think Auburn-Florida State counts as a "rivalry" but that was another Southern matchup I always really enjoyed watching-- it was semi-regular in the 80s when FSU was really emerging as a national contender. I think FSU played at Auburn in 1990, or maybe 1989, and it was the first time I ever saw an SEC night game on TV-- it was impressive. 

[hpslugga 4044]

2 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

I’ll never forget walking to a school carnival with my dad and he had a portable mini TV and we were watching that together. Is the color guy Corso?

Yes it is