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LittlePig

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2023, 08:27:29 PM »
Believe or not, Iowa plays 4 trophy games each year

Iowa State - Cy-Hawk Trophy
Minn -Floyd Of Rosdale
Wisc - Heartland
Neb. - Heroes

After that the best rival  candidates are NW and ILL.  NW hates Iowa with a passion but Iowa thinks of NW more like a pesky fly you keep trying to swat away.

Iowa-ILL is more of a basketball rivalry that goes back decades.  Does basketball count?    If so I guess the 5th rival is Illinois.

I know during the leaders and Legends era,  they tried to turn Iowa-Purdue into a cross-division rivalry, so it was fun to pretend Purdue was Iowa's most hated rival for a while.  But then they switched to East-West divisions and Purdue became just a normal division rival for Iowa, so that most hated rival joke just  kind of died out.
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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2023, 10:01:20 PM »
Historically, I would say:

Pitt
Virginia Tech
Penn St
Maryland
Syracuse

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2023, 12:09:08 AM »
Quote from: LittlePig on March 10, 2023, 08:27:29 PM
Believe or not, Iowa plays 4 trophy games each year

Iowa State - Cy-Hawk Trophy
Minn -Floyd Of Rosdale
Wisc - Heartland
Neb. - Heroes Farmageddon
FIFY
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2023, 09:54:49 AM »
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LittlePig

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2023, 10:05:24 AM »

You know, as much as that precious moments version of the re-designed Cy-Hawk was hated and ridiculed at the time,  the design has grown on me over the years,  to the point where I almost wish they would have kept it, instead of scrapping it for that boring football shaped trophy
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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2023, 10:09:50 AM »
Which programs, if any, have basically no rivals (P5)?

Maryland?  Rutgers?  Might be a program that has switched conferences in the past 20 years or so.  Louisville?  
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LittlePig

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2023, 10:19:45 AM »
Although now that I think about it, that corn family trophy still kind of gives off a Children of the Corn type vibe.  Son, the corn is good.  We must worship the corn, etc.
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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2023, 10:41:02 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 11, 2023, 10:09:50 AM
Which programs, if any, have basically no rivals (P5)?

Maryland?  Rutgers?  Might be a program that has switched conferences in the past 20 years or so.  Louisville? 
Maryland and Rutgers probably consider PSU a rival, but PSU doesn't think that.
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2023, 10:58:04 AM »
Louisville plays Kentucky every year now. 

They used to play Cincinnati for a "keg of nails" 

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2023, 11:35:32 AM »
UW has 2.5 rivals

Minnesota
Iowa
Sort of Nebraska (only been played 16 times)

NW isn't really a rival. It's a team that every loss to them makes me want to put a fist through a wall because the game is always stupid. I don't get the sense NW specifically cares, and I don't feel like UW thinks of the game as anything but a normalcy in victory and an affront if there's defeat. 

Michigan and OSU are weird cases. I think at points the games are competitive for some rivalry-esque fire, but those are isolated. For a time, UW was doing decent against OSU, couldn't touch Michigan. Now OSU is OSU, and UW-Michigan is just a grab bag with each team's volatility. 

MSU was a thing for a time, but if you've played three times since 2012, it's hard to keep that fire going, even if that game last year made me want to burn Spartan Stadium to the ground. 
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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2023, 11:47:40 AM »
I definitely consider NU a rival. UW has played more games against the nerds than any other team not called Minnie.

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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2023, 11:58:12 AM »
Minnesota has more than five, if we are going on trophy games.
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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2023, 12:00:48 PM »
a trophy does not a rival make

Huskers had trophy with Missery, for example

I'd guess if they ever schedule a non-con game, the trophy would be on the line

The final Battle for the Bell?
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Re: List your team's top 5 rivals
« Reply #27 on: March 11, 2023, 01:16:04 PM »
Bobby Carpenter likened the Minnesota HC job to playing Zelda, where you just go around trying to collect obscure little trinkets the whole time. 
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