RIP to the Rivalries we've lost

[steelerssb]

Mizzou-A&M was a better rivalry than whatever this forced Mizzou-Arkansas thing is

 

[phantomfoul88]

Grew up in the 90's and Tennessee was the shit. Just remember so many Saturday nights watching ESPN's Ron Franklin, Mike Gottfried, and Dr. Jerry Punch from Neyland Stadium, calling UT vs Florida, vs. Georgia or Alabama. Seemed like Tennessee home games were a staple of ESPN Saturday night college football.

 

[steelerssb]

 

[Codaxx]

The real shame is what conference alignment did to northeast football. Penn State leaving destroyed a region for football

 

[Hitman Hart]

Mizzou-A&M was a better rivalry than whatever this forced Mizzou-Arkansas thing is

I always had an odd appreciation for the LSU/Arkansas "golden boot" game that was played on Black Friday

Arkansas/Mizzou put an end to that

 

[steelerssb]

I always had an odd appreciation for the LSU/Arkansas "golden boot" game that was played on Black Friday

Arkansas/Mizzou put an end to that

It's instead of some awkward forced trophy that players can't even pick up, they have to bring it out on a wagon.

 

[outofyourmind]

 

[LoftonPack80]

Arkansas LSU was great

 

[wingsauce7]

Rutgers-Princeton RIP

 

[LoftonPack80]

The fans of the two schools have to care for it to be a rivalry.

Don't know what you're smoking but that was heated with legit historical reasons behind it

 

[Innermind]

Here's a solution to bringing back some of these rivalries:

All P5 conference commissioners get together to form a committee to enact a set of universal rules.... and say fuck-off to the NCAA:

- All P5 conference members play 8 in-conference games and 4 out-of-conference (OOC) games, with at least 2 of the OOC games scheduled against P5 opponents.
- All divisions eliminated... each team protects one or two annual in-conference rivalries with the remainder of conference opponents rotated. The two best teams meet in the Conference Championship Game.
- No independents
- Without divisions, in order to minimize the chance of two teams playing each other two consecutive weeks at the end of the season, Thanksgiving week will be utilized by many schools to schedule a permanent OOC P5 rivalry opponent... so we would see the following OOC rivalry games played every season during Thanksgiving week:
Nebraska vs Oklahoma
USC vs Notre Dame
Iowa vs Iowa State
Texas vs Texas A&M
Pitt vs West Virginia
Syracuse vs Rutgers
Louisville vs Kentucky
Clemson vs South Carolina
Georgia vs Georgia Tech
Florida State vs Florida
Ohio State vs Cincinnati (assuming Cincinnati is a member of the ACC along with Notre Dame.... Michigan vs Ohio State will be played early to mid November.)
Kansas vs Mizzou
BYU vs Utah (assuming BYU is a member of the Big XII)

With the above Thanksgiving week OOC contests permanently in place, most remaining in-conference rivalry games played Thanksgiving week will generally not be a danger to meet again the next week in the Conference Championship Game with the exception of the Apple Cup and Iron Bowl.

 

[Gohogs14]

I always had an odd appreciation for the LSU/Arkansas "golden boot" game that was played on Black Friday

Arkansas/Mizzou put an end to that

There were some insane games in that series. The Matt Jones Hail Mary that won Arkansas the West, top 10 matchup of McFadden vs. JaMarcus Russell in ‘06, triple OT upset in ‘07, playing for a Sugar Bowl berth in 2010, etc. Arkansas fans consider it more of a rivalry than LSU does though.

Arkansas-A&M have had some great games lately too with nearly all of them going into OT but when one team is winning all of them it’s hard to call it a rivalry

 

[ralphiewvu]

Of course I try to find a link and instead find that the two schools have a Home and Home schedule for 2021 and 2022. It does say that Va Tech was not interested in a Home and Home two paragraphs before that though.

Yeah, when feamer Beamer was there VPI fans and administration had an arrogance to them. They didn’t want to play us anymore because WVU fans were mean and unruly meanwhile their fans continued throwing bags of batteries and piss at us in 2004. Yeah, and they are just as redneck as we are, but they won’t admit it.

 

[LoftonPack80]

Here's a solution to bringing back some of these rivalries:

All P5 conference commissioners get together to form a committee to enact a set of universal rules.... and say fuck-off to the NCAA:

- All P5 conference members play 8 in-conference games and 4 out-of-conference (OOC) games, with at least 2 of the OOC games scheduled against P5 opponents.
- All divisions eliminated... each team protects one or two annual in-conference rivalries with the remainder of conference opponents rotated. The two best teams meet in the Conference Championship Game.
- No independents
- Without divisions, in order to minimize the chance of two teams playing each other two consecutive weeks at the end of the season, Thanksgiving week will be utilized by many schools to schedule a permanent OOC P5 rivalry opponent... so we would see the following OOC rivalry games played every season during Thanksgiving week:
Nebraska vs Oklahoma
USC vs Notre Dame
Iowa vs Iowa State
Texas vs Texas A&M
Pitt vs West Virginia
Syracuse vs Rutgers
Louisville vs Kentucky
Clemson vs South Carolina
Georgia vs Georgia Tech
Florida State vs Florida
Ohio State vs Cincinnati (assuming Cincinnati is a member of the ACC along with Notre Dame.... Michigan vs Ohio State will be played early to mid November.)
Kansas vs Mizzou
BYU vs Utah (assuming BYU is a member of the Big XII)

With the above Thanksgiving week OOC contests permanently in place, most remaining in-conference rivalry games played Thanksgiving week will generally not be a danger to meet again the next week in the Conference Championship Game with the exception of the Apple Cup and Iron Bowl.

No to all of this but instead of going thru every point, I'll skip to the most glaring. In order to bring back rivalries gone, you're scrapping one of the most historical and replacing it with OSU - Cincinnati. Jesus do you even like football???

 

[outofyourmind]

 

[Goldbug]

A lot of fans I have talked to don't like the direction college football has been going over the past 10 years. It already has two strikes against it with the first strike being the death of many of the sport's best rivalries (in the pursuit of money, money, money). The second strike has been the insane scheduling of games at odd times on TV and the delays in announcing starting times just a few days before kickoff which makes it hard to plan/travel if you want to see a game live. The third strike for many fans will be if players start getting paid in addition to all the other benefits they already get on scholarship.

 

[MarkOU]

In honor of rivalry week lets remember the great ones we no longer have. Heres a few I miss....

Nebraska - Oklahoma
Nebraska - Colorado
Texas - Texas A&M
Kansas - Missouri

Common theme?

The big xii.

 

[Clayton]

Missouri vs Kansas


Wait we have to care before it can be a rivalry correct? Guess that game doesn't count.

No, we don't have to care what you think

 

[OregonDucks]

Had the ACC kept Maryland and added WVU during the last realignment , ACC would be a lot more interesting in that region of

WVU
UVA
VT
Maryland
Pitt
BC
SU

ACC ALMOST had an even better group of rival games old and new. Would have had 4 old ones just by adding WVU.

Never thought of this, no idea why ACC didn't go for WVU?

WVU has been competitive for years in football, and is geographically located near other ACC schools, fits in well with recruiting those regions. Makes more sense for WVU to be in the ACC than the Big 12.

 

[OregonDucks]

Reading this thread and looking at how teams are currently doing, I almost want to say we can all agree that those teams that realigned should just go back to their former conferences.

With the exception of West Virginia, has any of the teams who left their former conferences benefited and gotten better?