Rivalry Games

[missingnumber7]

Everyone talks about rivalry week, and i can think back to when college football used to play all theirs on the second week in Nov, but that was before 12 game seasons and multiple weeks off and they stretched the season into an end of august to beginning of january straight through ordeal instead of having a month break. But anyway, whats your favorite college football rivalry. Everyone has their big college rivalry, but what about little ones, like with Williams and Amhearst that was on gameday, I have to say that was probably the sweetest thing any of those players can say they've had for a pregame before. Anyway...I'm going on record as saying its a close 1,2,3 for me and they are all going to be FCS next year.
1. Bison/Souix...2 big schools in the state, had before NDSU's move to D-1aa the longest consecutive games streak. Once the game was moved because of hunting opener. Plenty of hate between the two schools, used to be the most fun deal the week of the game one school trying to steal the nickle from the other, a buffalo head nickle. Thats right they play for a nickle.
2. CAT/Griz...I was born in Montana, I grew up in bozeman. The first college game that wasn't big time division 1 i remember seeing on tv was a cat griz game. My old man used to get tickets to 1 game a year to take me to, for the first 2 or 3 years it was the Weber state game, and we would beg friends to take us to teh cat griz, but i went for 5 years strait at one point and then went another couple times after we moved to Nd. I think the coolest part about this rivalry is 364 days a year people in montana live and work together in harmony, but 1 day a year its a brother vs brother type atmosphere. And then life goes back to normal.
3. Bison/Jackrabbits...the funny part about this rivalry is that both administrations thought they had to sell this because they didn't want to play UND/USD, to build the rivalry, and then blue key got involved and made a trophy and everyone else in the state got onboard. But the students of each school legitimately dislike each other, but it revolves more around the basketbrawl games that happen not really the football games...but this year and last year both teams were undefeated in the great west and it was for teh conference championship...funny how both teams who are moving to the gateway conference next year are playiing for the great west conference title in their last year.

[Garcia Bronco]

Virginia Tech/Virginia - the Miami's and WVa's of the world come and and go....but it's not a good season unless we stomp the Cavs

[ohiobronco2]

OSU Vs. Michigan for obvious reasons. I don't know how many times the outcome of this game has kept somebody from playing for or propelled another team to the national championship.

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

I know the rust belt folk like to think UMMMMM vs O$U is a big rivalry and the dust bowl crowd thinks the same of the Okies vs the Bull ****ters, but there is nothing like Alabama/Auburn and Florida/Georgia ;D

[Northman]

Virginia Tech/Virginia - the Miami's and WVa's of the world come and and go....but it's not a good season unless we stomp the Cavs

Not this year chump change. LOL :strong:

[TexanBob]

Every school needs a rival to hate. It's just not college football without having a rivalry at the end of the season. The Pac 10 has a great arrangement:

USC - UCLA
Cal - Stanford
Oregon - Oregon St.
Washington - Washington St.
Arizona - Arizona St.

Very natural rivalries each with fan bases who have to rub shoulders with each other 12 months of the year.

I've never understood why you wouldn't want to play that rivalry game at the end of the season either. Take Texas A&M. They've continued to disappoint through the second half of the season but, if they beat Texas, that's all any of them will care about. So interest in the team continues because the redeeming "big rivalry" game is still on the horizon.

I'd just like to see the rivalry weekend spread out a bit so us football junkies can watch more of them.

[Bronco LB 59]

I know the rust belt folk like to think UMMMMM vs O$U is a big rivalry and the dust bowl crowd thinks the same of the Okies vs the Bull ****ters, but there is nothing like Alabama/Auburn and Florida/Georgia ;D

Don't forget the Egg Bowl and Clemson/South Carolina.

[JPEZ]

Bison and UNC!!

Go Bears!!

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[ZachKC]

I understand it doesn't hold up to a lot of people's lists because historically the two team's haven't been dominant and except for small stretches have spent a lot of time not even being good but MU\KU this year has this area so crazy and up in arms...its been nuts and will only get worse until the 24th.

A pretty good little read that has been circulating.

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/sports.aol.com/fanhouse/media/2007/11/mizzoushirt07.jpg

You know what the best part of Kansas and Missouri having their best ever seasons at the very same time is? The entire nation will get exposed to what is possibly the most bitter and hateful rivalry in the country in all it's glory (or shame, if you prefer). You can have your Ohio State v. Michigan or Alabama v. Auburn, but the last time I checked nobody from Columbus ever went to Ann Arbor and systematically executed every man they could find while burning the town to the ground. And certainly nobody made t-shirts later celebrating that fact.

But that did happen in 1863 in Lawrence, KS when William Quantrill led his band of "Bushwackers" to the "Jayhawker" stronghold and went on a 4 hour rampage that would become known as the "Lawrence Massacre" - one of the ugliest episodes of the brutal 10+ years of fighting along the Kansas and Missouri border. While the Civil War has become the South v. the North in most people's minds, the fighting in fact began as a violent guerrilla conflict between the abolitionists in Kansas and the slave holding Missouri settlers (more or less, like many guerrilla campaigns there were quite blurred lines at times). In many ways, those old wounds have never quite healed - Grandpa Simpson will be be deep in the cold, cold ground before he recognizes Missour-ah as a state, for example.

Those t-shirts seen above that some Missouri fans are making for the showdown at Arrowhead in two weeks are celebrating the Lawrence Massacre and in fact have Quantrill's visage and slogan emblazoned on the back - "Raise the Black Flag and Ride Hard Boys. Our Cause is Just and Our Enemies Many". Talk about going straight past normal levels of fan behavior and making a hard right turn into loony land, that might be the single most offensive gameday t-shirt I've ever seen. Kansas fans are now responding with t-shirts sporting noted violent Kansas abolitionist John Brown (who led a massacre of his own and the 1859 Harper's Ferry raid that really kicked off the Civil War powder keg) with the slogan "Keeping America Safe From Missouri Since 1854" - a mock-up of those t-shirts can be seen here.

This game is going to be played on a neutral site at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City - home to huge parking lots for tailgating and beer sales in the stadium during the game. It's going to be for a berth in the Big XII Championship Game at the very least, and a shot at the National Championship at the most. Liquored up fans sharing the same parking lots and stadium, some who are celebrating their history of brutal violence against each other? Two fanbases who hate each other, with the chance to not only continue their own dream season but also to end the chance of glory for their rivals? Yeah, no way that doesn't end up without at least a few folks in the slammer. It's going to be a fun Saturday for the KCPD and Jackson County Sheriffs.

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/11/12/we-burned-your-town-to-the-ground/

[Doggcow]

WSU - UW seems pretty viscious from what I've experianced :)

We broke their fence down a few years ago lol. That and there are countless years that we've upset one another. Basically whoever is ranked is almost guaranteed the upset.

[missingnumber7]

Bison and UNC!!

Go Bears!!

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Bison and UNC??? that isn't even a game, not even close, wouldn't even be entertaining to think about.

[shakenbake]

I hear the BYU/UT game can get pretty nasty. Of course everyone thinks their schools rivalry is the best. Just the nature of the beast I guess. I do enjoy watching the games. I agree it would be great if we were exposed to more of them.

[JPEZ]

Bison and UNC??? that isn't even a game, not even close, wouldn't even be entertaining to think about.

Forgive me, what was I thinking! We beat the Bison on a regular basis back in the day! ;)

Go Bears!!

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[missingnumber7]

Nov. 5 NORTHERN COLORADO
1 p.m. Series: NDSU leads 21-9-0
At Greeley, Colo.: 8-6-0
At Fargo: 13-2-0
Last Game: 2004, UNC 15-13 in Greeley

And NDSU won that game 44-0...so you were saying something about a regular basis?