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Which teams do you cheer for in other rivalries?

HeismaNole

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Nov 29, 2023
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It’s the best week in college football so I’m curious who do you all root for in the other rivalries?


Conference realignment has screwed up Rivalry Week but I’ll hit the major traditional ones.

Ohio State vs Michigan
My pick: Michigan

Alabama vs Auburn
My pick: Auburn

Army vs Navy
My pick: Army

Ole Miss vs Miss State
My pick: Ole Miss

Florida vs FSU
My pick: FSU

South Carolina vs Clemson
My pick: Clemson (kind of depending on the year)

Although it was never during rivalry week
Oklahoma vs Texas
My pick: Oklahoma

USC vs UCLA
My pick: USC
I guess this is now USC vs ND
My pick: USC

Georgia vs Ga Tech
My pick: Georgia

The other games like Washington vs Wash State, Oklahoma vs OK St, Oregon vs Oregon State have all died now. Always liked all of these games.
 
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Root for (as opposed to predicting a winner in a given year).
  • OSU (begrudgingly) over UM…lived in C-bus for 2 years
  • Auburn over Bama
  • Navy over everyone
  • MSU (ole miss seems to have coaches that I don’t like)
  • UF (SEC fandom only-otherwise Gator hater)
  • Clemson (daughter in law is a CU grad)
  • OU
  • UCLA
  • UGA (SEC fandom only and I lived in Athens twice). I do respect GT though
  • A&M over Tx (served in the military with some great Aggies)
  • Vandy over UT
  • Va Tech over UVA (lived in VA 13 years) VT is the true state school….UVA is a fine school catering to elite out of state students. More like Duke is to UNC.
  • PU over IU
  • UK over UL goes without saying.
GBB!
 
Ohio State vs Michigan
Pick: Michigan (fk OSU and their fans)

Alabama vs Auburn
Pick: Alabama

Army vs Navy
Pick: Couldn't care less

Ole Miss vs Miss State
Pick: Ole Miss

Florida vs FSU
Pick: Florida

South Carolina vs Clemson
Pick: USC

Oklahoma vs Texas
Pick: Texas

USC vs UCLA
My pick: USC

I guess this is now USC vs ND
My pick: USC

Georgia vs Ga Tech
My pick: Georgia
 
Michigan (daughter went there)

Auburn, sick to death of Alabama winning

Army-Navy - whoever needs the W more, probably Army this season, but both teams are winners, IMO

You left out Harvard Yale (jk, but was pulling for Yale this year so that Columbia could win its first championship since 1961)
 
Several of these are the lesser of 2 evils haha!

Michigan ... will never root for the bucknuts.
Air Force (I know that wasnt an option, but hey ...)
Miss State ... i know a lot of grads and they are not obnoxious ... Ole Myth has coeds ...
Fla/F$U, I go back and forth. Prefer FL this year.
Anyone (except the bucknuts) over ND.
Bama, Auburn ... I go back and forth, lots of friends here that support either and they're good people.
Clemson over S Car. Unless UK beat SC that year...
 
For years, I had a few favorite college football teams other than UK... I had to in order to stay interested at times.

In the SEC, there was and still is one squad other than ours I'm always ready to back... LSU.

Loved to back UM v OSU and the rest of the B10 for years... less so in the Harbaugh era. Loved PSU even more (prior to B10 entry) but lost all respect for school, Joe Pa, and program over the obvious. Not ever going back.

These days, living in Indiana, I gotta back them in any contest not involving the Cats.

Always favored USC in the PAC-10, Oklahoma in B8, Texas in SWC (made Red River easy to watch... I just wanted a good football game) and Ga Tech in ACC.

Root for the academies and BC (and the Devil himself) v Notre Dame.
 
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