A few quick rules: I’m not pondering the quality of your rivalry, just the poetry of its name. Many rivalries have trophies, but not names. If teams don’t really refer to their game as the “Battle for the ____” or whatever, they don’t make the cut. At least one school has to have used the name. A separate section on fan-created names follows. Series that can no longer call themselves by defunct trophies (like the EKU-Morehead State Old Hawg Rifle or Kentucky-Tennessee Beer Barrel) can’t be included. I don’t care if these teams haven’t met in a while. These groups are loosely ranked amongst themselves, but I’m not assigning numbers to all eleventy million, until the very top group. Two-team rivalries only. Now let’s get right to it, going from lesser names to the actual great names. Governors Cup (Eastern Washington-Montana, though lots of other rivalries also have trophies with names like this.) The Academic Bowl (Carnegie Mellon-Case Western) The Courage Bowl (Rochester-St. John Fisher) The Heroes Game (Iowa-Nebraska) Battle Line Rivalry (Arkansas-Missouri) The Civil War (Oregon-Oregon State, with demerits for wildly overselling.) Battle of the Border (Lamar-McNeese State) The Border War (Colorado State-Wyoming and Oregon-Washington. These are the Border… Read full this story
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