07-12-2025, 11:39 AM
(07-07-2025, 02:43 PM)Giants Wrote:(07-07-2025, 01:14 PM)terry Wrote: The Athletic has published a list of the 100 best college football rivalries:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6469306...kings-100/
Stanford-Cal is #29, Stanford-USC is #62, and Stanford-UCLA is #72.
It is pretty obvious they put an emphasis on “rivalries” that featured consistently highly rated teams.
Penn State/Ohio State in the Top Ten? They have only played each continuously since 1993. Prior to that they had met only eight times in history.
It also hasn't been much of a rivalry: Ohio State is 12-1 against PSU since Andrew Luck turned pro.
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