College Sports Rivalries: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
When it comes to college football, the answer is a resounding NO.
As another season approaches, fans are gearing up for some serious competition between teams with the longest-standing rivalries in history.
“It’s just a game,” you say? Not for diehard fans and alumni, who help guarantee stadium sellouts whenever the rival teams take the field. These are the folks that download fight songs as their cell phone ring tones, paint their family rooms in team colors, and don’t take kindly to suggestions that football is “just a game.”
All right, already. So which team matchups get everyone hot and bothered? Here’s just a sampling of the longest-standing feuds, with each set of rivals having played more than 100 cutthroat games over the past century:
Army vs. Navy
Ohio State vs. Michigan
Harvard vs. Yale
Lafayette vs. Lehigh
Kansas vs. Missouri
Oklahoma vs. Texas
Texas vs. Texas A & M
Auburn vs. Georgia
California vs. Stanford
Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
Washington vs. Washington State
Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss
Indiana vs. Purdue
Clemson vs. South Carolina
Georgia vs. Georgia Tech
Stay tuned this season to see how the rivalries grow!
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