Rivalries rule (if you know who they are)
Someday, when I write my book about the 40,374 reasons college football is more interesting than the NFL, rivalries will be No. 1. It is the one aspect of the sport that is so much better than any other American sport, it isn’t even arguable.
I love all college football rivalries, I really do. I love Boise State-Nevada and Brigham Young-Utah, and I even love football rivalries that are really basketball rivalries, like North Carolina-North Carolina State. I love that the rivalries are all played once a year, and that most of the big ones will be contested in the next two weeks, in the final regular-season game for most teams.
And yet I’ll admit that some college football rivalries confuse me especially when teams have more than one rival. Is the enemy of your enemy really your friend? What if your enemy has a bigger enemy than you?
foxsports.com
11/17/08
