Rank these rivalries

Only one of these is rooted in literal war.

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Florida / Florida State

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In 1979, I went to the Kentucky/Florida game in Gainesville. Florida was getting blown out by Kentucky. The two things I remember...Florida fans were throwing cup lids like frisbees from the top of the stadium and they were landing on the field (freaking amazing) and the crowd was chanting "It's Great to Hate Florida State" throughout the game. They had zero interest in who they were currently playing...all they cared about was screaming about playing Florida State the following week. It was pretty freaking impressive (the crowd, not the team...the team sucked).


For those who ask why was I there...we passed by on our way to my grandparent's house for Thanksgiving week and my father is a UK alum.

Many people from Missouri and Kansas very much hate each other and it has nothing to do with the colleges

Mizzou-Kansas is #1

Those that don’t rank it there just aren’t aware of the true hatred between them.

Missouri and Kansas.

The rest don't come close.

Missouri/Kansas and Clemson/Carolina are 2 of the most hate filled ones in the country.

FSU/UF and UL/UK are relatively new comparatively

Tech/UGA is historically a fantastic rivalry but hasn't been very competitive outside of short spurts since Tech left the SEC. But when Tech is good and Tech people are excited (early Johnson era, late 90s/early 2000s) it's a fantastic rivalry. Especially in Metro Atlanta.

While Tech isn't a private school the geographic makeup of the alumni base makes it much more like Vanderbilt/Tennessee than Carolina/Clemson or Alabama/Auburn.

Random towns in Georgia outside of metro Atlanta have less Tech people than Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, etc folks, whereas go to a random town in South Carolina or Alabama and there are going to be a minimum of 20-25% of one or the other fans.

It was not like that back during the heyday of the rivalry when Tech was in the SEC and was much more like other big in-state games.

Here’s to Carolina turning inexplicably turning into a machine as they like to do and taking a big bite out of that Clemson arse this November.

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That said, whenever I travel through small-town GA, I'm always surprised as to just how many random baws in trucks you see with a GT plate. Guys running manufacturing plants, or tending to construction firms and the like. If GT had the ag school, you'd see even more of it.

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Yep - and there are a lot of old multi-generational Tech families out there. Tech just become such a good school and such a tough admit while also sinking in football that it kind of broke the line of non-alum fandom that other southern state schools have kept over the years.