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That's why rivalries have traditionally been almost exclusively regional.  There's got to be more to it than just the game itself, for fans to consider it a rivalry.  It's an emotional thing, not a cerebral one.

And certainly not a marketing thing.  You can't market a rivalry into existence.  Sometimes us sheep just won't line up the way the media and big business would like us to.

I agree with one notable exception: USC-Notre Dame is a 100% manufactured marketing rivalry. But it's still definitely a rivalry, my friends in either of those two fan bases definitely don't like the opposite school, at all.

the only thing great about it is the non-organic

Of course it is.  This is why I don't see how you guys are having any fun.  Are you in a great conference?  Well...yes.  But it's a hollow bragging right.

BC you’re so full of shit and totally presumptuous about what Aggies think. I personally work with many more LSU fans and alums than UT fans and alums it’s not even close. By your logic there wouldn’t be any rivalry between OU and UT because “ I don’t see how you guys are having any fun” when OU made Texas it’s whipping boy circa 2000-present.  

Sure, we’re still getting our footing here in the SEC and have a way to go but things are developing here.  Watch what happens in late Nov if we knock LSU out of the CFP.  We won’t be favored and will likely be 2 TD dogs but I think this I should why we play the games, no?

Is there another significant CFB rivalry between teams from non-contiguous states (or the same state)?  (Leave ND out.)  I can't think of one.

I think one requisite is to play often, if not every year.  I guess Florida-LSU is something of a rivalry, but contrived by scheduling.  Texas-Nebraska was once a great series.  If I'm forgetting one, it's because there aren't many of them.

Play nearly every year
Geographic proximity
Some level of consistent national importance (usually)

As far as I could tell, Texas-Nebraska was not a great series.  More like a miserable experience for Nebraska over its time in the Big 12.  They've played 14 times, and Texas leads 10-4.  Nebraska led 3-1 in the 4-game OOC "series" that was spread out over 42 years.  The Big 12 record was Texas 9-1.  The 9 Texas wins included 8 heartbreakers for the Huskers.

1996, first-ever Big 12 CCG: Texas 37, Nebraska 27
1998: Texas 20, Nebraska 16
1999: Texas 24, Nebraska 20
1999, Big 12 CCG: Nebraska 22, Texas 6
2002: Texas 27, Nebraska 24
2003: Texas 31, Nebraska 7
2006: Texas 22, Nebraska 20
2007: Texas 28, Nebraska 25
2009, Big 12 CCG: Texas 13, Nebraska 12 (the famous "one second back on the clock" game)
2010: Texas 20, Nebraska 13

OU-Nebraska, now that was a great series, and between teams in non-contiguous states.  In the good ole days of the Big 8, it was the bookend to OU-Texas.  Texas--then in the SWC--was often the last game before conference games started, or was played the week after the first conference game.  Nebraska was often the next-to-last conference game.  OU-Texas was hate mingled with occasional grudging respect.  OU-Nebraska was respect occasionally mingled with a little hate.  And that series included the greatest college football game ever played, per ESPN.

Huskers obviously came out badly considering wins and losses with the Horns during the Big 12 timeframe, but........ 6 games decided by 4 or fewer points

there were only 2 blowouts - one by each team

it felt like a rivalry even though the Huskers only had one victory

hay, I preferred the rivalry with the Sooners too

Hey if you want to call it a rivalry that's fine with me.  Personally I loved being in the same conference as the Huskers and playing as often as we did, and not just because Texas was fortunate enough to come out on top most of those games.  Many of those were just epic games and a lot of fun to watch.

I wouldn't call Nebraska a "rival" of Texas but it was certainly a really important game and series to Texas over the time the two schools shared a conference.

In other news, who was the dipshit SECSECSEC fan that decided to call a game where both teams go over 40 points "Twelving?"

Cause it sure seems like the two best SECSECSEC teams in all the land just went over 40 points against one another.  What a shitty-ass defensive conference.

I think I'll rename this craptacular phenomenon "SECing" because that sounds equally as stupid.