# What are the best known college football rivalries? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 24, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333 "2008-11-24T21:52:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/41 "2008-11-26T22:05:19Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#): > > The big joke everyone learns at orientation is “What does a Trojan and a Bruin both have in common? They both got into USC.” You can’t spell suck without USC. Saw that on a T-shirt ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/42 "2008-11-26T22:34:27Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > You can’t spell suck without USC. > > Saw that on a T-shirt I have one that says “You can’t spell Trojan without OJ”. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/43 "2008-11-26T22:34:54Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Some rivalries are kind of onesided – Marshall people will say that Marshall - West Virginia is a big deal … WV people will laugh at that and say their rival is Pittsburgh … and Pitt people say theirs is Penn State … and Penn State says Pitt is not worth scheduling. At Nebraska, it was Colorado saying they were our rival, only Nebraskans didn’t think they were. It was like that little guy who says “Can I be your friend, can I? Can I please?” Our rivalry was Nebraska-Oklahoma and many people were upset when the Big XII split that. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/44 "2008-11-26T22:55:53Z")
and OU has a border rivalry with Texas and in-state rivalry with Okie State. And I said Army-Navy were the most important schools. Our national security in the hands of these two schools. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/45 "2008-11-26T23:01:41Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Damn right! Someday, the idiot alumni at FSU will realize that Bobby has been a walking corpse of pudding and BBQ sauce for more than a decade now, and they’ll get him to see “reason” and resign. Then we can get back to real Seminole football! > > F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E! > Florida State! Florida State! Florida State! WOOOO! Well, I’m an intelligent alum and I’d be more that happy to see Bowden and Paterno both go out at the end of this year. Neither one will leave without the other leaving. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/46 "2008-11-26T23:49:17Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Put “The Game” (in quotes) into Wiki and see what comes at the top of the list. > > [The Game - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game) Pft. Listing number 1 for the **Big** Game: [Cal/Stanford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Game). I don’t care about college sports at all, but I always try to watch that to cheer Cal. (I refuse to support anything in Palo Alto.) (I mean, seriously, have you been there?) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/47 "2008-11-27T05:24:38Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Well, I’m an intelligent alum and I’d be more that happy to see Bowden and Paterno both go out at the end of this year. Neither one will leave without the other leaving. lol I meant the idiot alums who keep paying Bobby. Paterno can still coach; he’s still in it and into it, mentally. He’s still got it. Bobby’s been doing his impersonation of a coach with Alzheimer’s for at least a decade now. And I’m a guy who went by his office in 1993 to personally offer my congratulations. (He was very friendly and gracious, too. Actually let me in unannounced and spent about 10 minutes chatting and thanking me and all the students for our support. He’s a really great guy, but he doesn’t have _it_ anymore.) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/48 "2008-11-27T14:41:39Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Well, I’m an intelligent alum and I’d be more that happy to see Bowden and Paterno both go out at the end of this year. Neither one will leave without the other leaving. I’m a Florida alum and I’m more than happy to see Bowden stay while he has a pulse and/or can be propped up on the sidelines. Paterno I find amusing, he’s such a cantankerous old SOB. Bowden is like your semi-crazy, embarassing uncle who farts a lot during family get-togethers and goes on and on about the old days. Paterno you think he’d maybe take a swing at someone much bigger than himself and possibly win a fight with a guy half his age. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/49 "2008-11-27T16:38:14Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > He’s a really great guy, but he doesn’t have _it_ anymore.) Aw, come on, man – you telling me he can’t inspire and lead young men anymore? You’re crazy! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JIn17ufE7ZM/hqdefault.jpg "Bobby Bowden Pregame Speech") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIn17ufE7ZM) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/50 "2008-11-27T17:58:39Z")
> [@furt](#): > > Aw, come on, man – you telling me he can’t inspire and lead young men anymore? You’re crazy! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIn17ufE7ZM&eurl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIn17ufE7ZM&eurl) I liked how he was reading from notes, and doing it poorly. But the best part was right at the end where he goes to scratch his nuts lol. Someone get this guy a drink and a lawn chair, please. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/51 "2008-11-27T18:40:25Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > And I said Army-Navy were the most important schools. Our national security in the hands of these two schools. No, our national security is in the hands of the U.S. military and associated agencies…which graduates of those schools may join. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/52 "2008-11-28T05:03:49Z")
How about the “Holy War”–Utah vs Brigham Young? ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-known-college-football-rivalries/474333/53 "2008-11-28T10:13:05Z")
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