Best College Football Rivalries
They are the games that each team and all of their fans look forward to each year and the games where even if the rest of the season is a total bust, you still feel okay about it because the team beat the rival. College football rivalries are among the strongest in all of sports and these rivalries are the most intense of them all. Don't agree with the list? Place your vote or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on.
“The pinnacle of American sports rivalries”
“I am from Toledo, Ohio and no other sporting event compares to "The Game". It all started with the Toledo War and from that day on the 2 states have hated each other! It is not just a rivalry, it is a way of life! You are either an OSU fan or an UM fan from birth! Toledo basically shuts down that day, even the gas stations take the $ of gas off their signs and put up the score of the game! Family’s are truly divided and no matter how good or bad either team is doing in the season, it all comes down to "The Game"! Go Blue!”
“YES NO BETTER THAN MAIZE AND BLUE VS SCARLET AND RED! BIGGER THAN THE BATTLE OF GOOD AND EVIL!”
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“There is NO rival like the Tide and Auburn!”
“When it comes on I tune everybody out and just watch the game.”
“I don’t care what you all say, Alabama vs. Auburn has got to be the top. You don’t see many people rivalries when the people start talking about that one game after the last game they played! It has to be the tide and the tigers
Gotta love the Tide. Roll Tide Roll”
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Utah vs. BYU
“It’s more than just a game. It is a battle of cultures, philosophies, and lifestyle. BYU fans a Utah fans don’t just think their schools are better, they think their fellow fans and supporters are better people than those who cheer for the opponent. They equate their schools to an entire belief system and when they do battle on the gridiron, it is a symbolic jihad. Wining the holy war is a reaffirmation of a fan’s sense of all around superiority.”
“always fantastic games no matter one team ranked or not just simply amazing to watch.”
“The most sober school in the world versus a definite top ten party school. Let the battle begin”
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“definitely a great rivalry... and it’s not a lopsided rivalry where one team just kicks the other teams ace year after year... it was for a while... til texas got inVINCEable”
“GO OU!”
“People are down right mean to each other in Texas during that weekend. Do not get caught walking alone with a Texas or Oklahoma shirt on.”
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“Clemson has dominated this rivalry since it started. Go Tigers!”
“It is not a rivalry to Clemson fans it is a domination”
“By far one of the most under-rated rivalries in history. In South Carolina, your born into one school or the other. There is no mercy given, and no love lost”
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“Some of the best players to ever play the game came through this game. You’ll never see so many drunk people in one place. A stadium half full of fans is louder than most other schools full stadiums”
“To the guy who said "they only lead florida in the series because the war.. only 2 players on that team went to the army, while 80 of the gators seniors and juniors went, and georgia thought they were good so they ran up the score... A shame that we had to teach them quite a few lessons after the war... "
Are you stupid? I don’t know of ANY war that spanned 1915-1989. The Gators got their asses handed to them more often than not during that span. You guys didn’t "teach" us anything after the war (whichever war you’re referring to). You kept on LOSING. Remember that Heisman winner of yours, Spurrier? Recall what we did to him that year? So does he. That’s exactly why he made sure to schedule a bye week every year prior to the Cocktail Party. He didn’t want UF to lose to UGA the way they had for decades.
As of right now, this rivalry is as good as they come. Even the last several Gator victories have only been by 7 points or less since 2002.”
“GO UGA!”
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Army vs. Navy
“If either team were to go 0-11 and wins this one..its a successful season.”
“GO NAVY MOST OF THE TIME!”
“there the service academy’s, they steal each other’s mascots, and they ABSOLUTELY hate each other. GO NAVY, but this is just an extraordinary rivalry”
“GO AGGIES!
HORNS SUCK!”
“Aggies are built to hate Texas”
“hookem horns”
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Miami vs. Florida State
“THE WINNER OF THIS RIVARLY ALWAYS DETERMINED THE COLLEGE CHAMPION”
“Voted by ESPN the greatest rivalry of the last 20 years, including 7 national championships since 1983 and the 2 winningest programs since 1980. Not too mention two of the most memorable games ever, Wide Right 1 and 2.”
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LSU vs. Arkansas
“GO HOGS GO!”
“lsu is the best”
“GO ARKANSAS BEAT LSU!”
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