Can you name the nicknames for these College football rivalry games? - sporcle

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Teams	Rivalry Name
Washington vs. Washington State
Ohio State vs. Michigan
Alabama vs. Auburn
Oklahoma vs. Texas
Florida vs. Georgia
Oregon vs. Oregon State
Colorado vs. Colorado State
Georgia vs. Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh vs. West Virginia
USC vs. UCLA

Teams	Rivalry Name
Texas vs. Texas A&M
Memphis vs. Southern Miss
Brigham Young vs. Utah
Baylor vs. Texas A&M
Arizona vs. Arizona State
Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State
Kansas vs. Missouri
West Virginia vs. Marshall
Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State
TCU vs. SMU
Stanford vs.California

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College football rivalries

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Published: November 29th, 2008

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	jvwald:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 16:25 GMT	0 points
	I believe credit for this quiz should go to Mark Vahrenwald.

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	HollywoodLeo:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 17:04 GMT	13 points
	But their football programs are too insignificant to care.

	Kicking222:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 17:14 GMT	3 points
	Holy sweet cow... so hard. I only got five, and two were complete guesses.

	DirtyKash:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 17:46 GMT	2 points
	Notre Dame-USC!

	BlueEyedAlien:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 17:48 GMT	10 points
	How could you ignore Cal/Stanford?: "The Big Game". UCLA/USC is also the Battle for the City.

	yankeessuck8991:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 18:02 GMT	6 points
	Ignoring cal/stanford is like illegal. wtf.

	astor:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 18:29 GMT	3 points
	No Harvard-Yale? No Army-Navy?

	Brunswick23Beast:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 18:40 GMT	2 points
	Notre Lame/USC probably isn't on here because it's next to impossible to spell "Shillelagh" without having to look it up!

	HollywoodLeo:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 18:49 GMT	4 points
	@astor, it mentions Army-Navy in the description on the main page. I think they didn't put it on the quiz because it doesn't really have a nickname, it's just "The Army-Navy Game"

	Daniel:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 19:00 GMT	4 points
	What about CAL vs. STANFORD and "The Big Game" Not only is this the oldest football rivalry in the west, it is also the rivalry that gave college football "The Play"

	Jon:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 19:18 GMT	8 points
	Little Brown Jug - Minnesota-Michigan...first one I thought of but not there...

	beckleyman:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 20:09 GMT	3 points
	Plenty of room for expansion-maybe even ones where trophies are given out? The Old Brass Spittoon, The Beehive Boot, The Old Oaken Bucket, IlliBuck, the Cy-Hawk, Trophy-there's really too many to name right now.

	Esteban:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 21:11 GMT	1 point
	The Zona-ASU game is also known as the Territorial Cup. And is West Virginia-Marshall realyl a rivalry? I looked it up, and they've played all of eight times since 1911, with WVU winning all eight matches.

	sammyhain2364:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 02:24 GMT	2 points
	Minnesota vs Wisconsin not there????

	mvwald:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 02:32 GMT	1 point
	What about Williams v. Amherst - little big game!

	ElDavo:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 02:49 GMT	-1 points
	You guys are idiots. Yes, I like Virginia, but no, I wasn't expecting the Virginia-Virginia Tech rivalry to be here. It's all about the interesting names/HUGE games. Like, bigger than Minnesota-Wisconsin.

	mvwald:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 03:08 GMT	8 points
	i'd guess the nice folks at sporcle were going for games that specifically have a name for the rivalry. the little brown jug, paul bunyans axe, the Jeweled Shillelagh, the oaken bucket, the beehive boot, etc aren't the names of the games, but rather the trophies that go to the winners. thus, they don't fit the category, but they would make a nice quiz on their own.

	Hermes:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 04:22 GMT	2 points
	that was harder then I thought! yikes. they could really expand on this though...i mean ku/ksu is a pretty big rivalry and it has a name (though it's not considered as bad-blood as the border showdown), missouri and illinois, i can go on. still nice quiz!

	beckleyman:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 04:31 GMT	3 points
	No love for the Commonwealth Cup? I agree, WVU/MU isn't much of a rivalry on the field. Being a WVU fan, I can tell you the biggest part of the rivalry is lived between the fans, but it's really not much of a rivalry.

	TimC:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 21:20 GMT	5 points
	I attended USC and have been a fan of USC football all my life and have never once heard someone call the UCLA game "the battle for the victory bell". It's a great rivalry but there's not a common name for it.

	Math Chick:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 22:07 GMT	3 points
	I'm afraid I must disagree with you, ElDavo. The Minnesota-Wisconsin football rivalry has been going on for over 100 years. And sure the Gophers are down for the last half century or so, but they do have 6 national titles (yes in football- stop laughing!). The game for Paul Bunyan's Axe should be on this list, or at least a star in a new quiz per Mark's suggestion.

	Moonburger:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 06:00 GMT	0 points
	The Game is actually the name of the Yale Harvard rivalry.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 2nd, 2009 at 14:04 GMT	5 points
	Little Brown Jug was the first one I thought of too..

	ChipTaco:	May 8th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	4 points
	I find it really interesting that Baylor/A&M is listed on here. First off, I've never heard any of our games with Baylor referred to as the Battle of the Brazos. And second off, it's a fairly insignificant rivalry. Baylor doesn't like at A&M, but generally they suck at everything so it doesn't matter.

	bucksfan54321:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 04:06 GMT	1 point
	ive lived in columbus and been an osu fan all my life and have never really heard osu-michigan widely referred to as just "the game"

	JTacoma03:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 17:37 GMT	3 points
	how can you ignore LSU vs Arkansas? The battle for the golden boot! They even have an actual trophy for that game that the winning team keeps...

	NobleDB:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 19:47 GMT	-2 points
	Of all these rivalries, Michigan-OSU tops all.

	Doctor_Tom:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 06:21 GMT	1 point
	@ChipTaco: I agree I've never heard of a rivalry between Baylor and A&M, especially one referred to as the Battle of the Brazos.

	drewcorleone:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 06:13 GMT	2 points
	Baylor is now A&M's biggest rival!

	eraffin8:	Sep 16th, 2009 at 18:49 GMT	1 point
	Boston College vs. Notre Dame is called the Holy War in addition to BYU vs. Utah. The BC/ND game makes more sense given they are the only 2 Catholic universities with FBS football teams

	zekleinhammer:	Nov 24th, 2009 at 01:46 GMT	1 point
	The only person who calls the Texas-Oklahoma game the Red River Rivalry is Brent Musberger.

	BiloxiSean:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 04:00 GMT	1 point
	where is the floyd of rosedale? No love for the big pig!!!

	BiloxiSean:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 04:01 GMT	1 point
	But I like seeing Southern Miss represented.

	Rick:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	0 points
	USC vs UCLA is called the 'Crosstown Showdown' or the 'Battle for LA,' and nothing else.

	matto1:	Dec 30th, 2009 at 15:35 GMT	1 point
	"The Game" is Harvard-Yale.

	jwbrager:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 03:40 GMT	2 points
	How about Wisconsin vs Minnesota?? One of the longest rivalry's there is. Come on now!!!

	CNS:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 21:07 GMT	1 point
	Agreed with some of the earlier commenters... there is a lack of Big Ten rivalries on here!

	Bob91351:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 15:57 GMT	1 point
	Interesting that "Coal Bowl" worked for "Friends of Coal Bowl", but "Victory Bell" doesn't work for "The Battle for the Victory Bell" Plus, I agree with Rick that nobody in LA calls USC-UCLA anything other than "The Crosstown Showdown (or Crosstown Rivalry)"