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Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

dithridge — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:22:50 -0000

there's not much talk about the most played division 1-A rivalry: minnesota-wisconsin

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

dithridge — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:37:46 -0000

this is a great chart. i would like to see an expanded version with more series.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Lennie Collins — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:26:01 -0000

Then you should know this, MAN! CRIMSON -N- CREAM PROUD! Oklahoma will be the 2008 National Champions. Forget a SEC!

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

flgators — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:08:42 -0000

No, I don't mean the year of the cat, dragon, monkey, or any other zoo animal. Would expect that much from a Sooner.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:28:06 -0000

Nice little chart within your link of the closest of the long-running rivalries, which gives me an idea...

Just kidding. One more rivalry thread and I'm done for a while...

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Lennie Collins — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:40:26 -0000

Don't you mean it's the year off the cat, flgators! How about the year of the dragon or monkey?

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

flgators — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:12:55 -0000

I agree. This is the year of theSEC again. I am a Gator and love me. Secondary still hurting. Dawgs look strong but a rough schedule. The Gators have a good shot at the title

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

ksuwild — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:35:14 -0000

If we're talking border wars then MU - KU has to at least make the top 10.

http://mutigers.cstv.com/sp...

Their are no two schools I can think of that hate each other more.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:32:42 -0000

True, but when was the last time Rutgers played Princeton? I would think a rivalry would have to be a continuum. . .in a manner of speaking.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Ben Prather — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:52:41 -0000

It would be hard to go back further than Rutgers-Princeton, as they played the first football game ever.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:16:39 -0000

. . .not to mention the 2 interstate rivalries: OR/OR St & WA/WA St.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:14:27 -0000

I just gotta know. Does that mean female LSU fans under the age of 18 should wear LSU/striped shirts with the words "jail bate"? Sorry, I had to ask.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:10:07 -0000

Relax, Lennie, I think he missed his target. It's easy to do with this new format.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:08:37 -0000

Grcunning, I was at an auction once where there were some kids in the audience. A rather buxom & sultry wench was sporting a T-Shirt that read "F. . .ck Ho. . .sework" (I'll let you buy a vowel.). I had just gotten up the nerve to stroll on over to this chick and introduce myself as Housework, not to mention suggesting where we might go to do the deed, so to speak. That's about when I realized this 6'9" gargantuan was apparently her boy-friend. So much for that experiment and the scientific method, discretion prevailed instead.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:50:55 -0000

Kevin, has it ever been determined which is the rivalry that has been around the longest, and if so, which is it?

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

TampaGator — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:19:57 -0000

WEA:

Very provocative article. Good job in defining the parameters of what you were ranking...not so good in applying them (e.g.--"borders")--may as well have left it a subjective anaylsis--but, hey, it apparently made for good discussion...

...that is, until a particular poster felt compelled to hijack the thread in order to pursue his obsession with racial issues...

b/t/w: I may have missed it, since I just kinda' scrolled throgh the posts, but no mention--even in passing (like an honorable mention), of UF v. AU? That was one very intense rivalry before the SEC split into diviions, and whenever it does resume, seems to pick up right where it left off...

...with each of us grabbing the others' troat!

Good stuff...enjoyed it!

GO GATORS!!

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

hricane23 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:58:57 -0000

I don't feel the sign was inappropriate, nor irresponsible. And a major difference, I think, between my sign and your "suggestion" is that I didn't even use a racial term. I would expect a fight if I put the word "negroes" on anything!

The fact is the Kansas/ Missouri rivalry is deeply rooted in the history between the two pro-slavery and anti-slavery sides. The Border Showdown is a forum for Kansans to remind Missourians of their negative history; and for Missourians to remind Kansans, especially those from the town of Lawrence, that Quantrill killed 152 and literally burned a great portion of the town to the ground during his raid.

And I have to tell you, I've spent a good amount of time trying to keep my response civil, but I'm a little upset with you calling down on me from your holier-than-thou pedestal, calling me "irresponsible" and "inappropriate", and suggesting that I think slavery and racism is "funny", all without being even a hint knowledgeable of the history of the situation.

Did Martin Luther King, Jr. sweep slavery under the rug? Does Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton sweep racial issues and tensions under the rug? No, sir. They bring it to the forefront of the news. They bring it into every American home. Because that's how the next generations will learn how wrong it is. Those that fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

This is hardly the place to discuss race issues, and if we did, I imagine that the only thing we'd disagree on is how to handle it. I say open the wounds and pour gasoline on them, to remind us how much it hurts. You say, "What slavery? What racism? There's nothing to see here."

So, in summation, go smoke your peacepipe somewhere else, hippie.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

GeauxTigers0107 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:33:20 -0000

Good luck to you guys Hotty. Except for that one game.......

Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Ben Prather — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:30:20 -0000

But does anyone really care about this game outside of the state of Alabama and the loyal fans of these two institutions?

My point is, although I understand the intensity of this rivalry and that no other game matters more to a fan of these teams, from an outsider it does not produce the quality games that Auburn and other teams have historically.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Ben Prather — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:24:34 -0000

Same pay, either way.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:10:43 -0000

Bite your tongue, Ben Prather! Alabama is still our biggest rival no matter how crappy they've been this century. They're all this envious, inferiority-complexed cow college has.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:09:17 -0000

Pitt/Penn St: That's the one Pitt fans miss as much as WVU fans miss VA Tech/WVU.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:08:01 -0000

It's always puzzled me how it took so long for the college football world to finally appreciate this rivalry. Yes, there's a great deal of disparity in the win/loss column. Yes, to Pitt's credit, they have more upsets in the series than WVU. Still, only 75 miles separates the "Steel City" from an old coal town. Since before1970, the B-Chapter (Pitt) & LO-Chapter (WVU) of APO have taken turns running a football from the visiting campus to the home campus. Even before each school benefited from new stadiums the atmosphere at each of these games was great. I can imagine it being a little better elsewhere, but not that much better.

WVU has since begun promising rivalries with Louisville, S FL, and to a lesser extent Rutgers, UConn, & Cincy. While there's no greater rivalry in the Big East than Pitt/WVU, the one rivalry I will miss until it's reborn is the Black Diamond Trophy: VA Tech/WVU.

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:47:11 -0000

I can't argue with your list, Ben, except to say #2 & #7 aren't boarder wars. #2 is arguably one of the greatest rivals of all time, but CA is far removed from IN; #7 is historically just about equal, but these schools aren't just in the same state; they're in the same town. In more recent years, I would have expected to see FSU/Miami up there. But hey, like polls & opinions...

Re: Border Wars: Best All-Time Interstate Division 1-A Rivalries

Zac — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:35:30 -0000

Great Post, Ben!!! I guess that's why you're a sports writter and most of us are just bloggers. My hat's off to you.