I think with the right amount of hype from FS1, these two games have the potential to turn into FS1's version of what the Duke-UNC game is to ESPN.
Duke-UNC was always a rivalry, but it became so well known because of ESPN. The hype was ridiculous. They would have the games simulcast on all of their channels. There was even a year they had ESPNU with a camera on the Cameron Crazies the entire game. Stupid and overkill. But it turned the game into a nationally known rivalry.
I really hope FS1 hypes the crap out of these games. It should be their 2 marquee college basketball matchups every season. Include tons of ads hyping the game in the week before, do their own version of College Gameday, find some backstory on the schools' Jesuit roots, go into the history of Al/John Thompson, etc. We no longer have to compete with ESPN's Duke-UNC (ACC in general) asskissing, so I hope FS1 decides to find their own storylines to hype.
I think proximity would make it difficult to ever truly rival Duke and North Carolina. Part of what makes that rivalry so great that they're only separated by a few miles on tobacco road. Marquette and Georgetown are 1000 miles apart in completely different parts of the country. It has the potential to be an excellent rivalry, but I can see it being impeded for the same reasons Kentucky versus Florida and Kansas versus Texas haven't taken off the level of Duke and Carolina.
You could really get the rivalry a lot of coverage if you could get the No. 1 Jesuit to attend the game.
Quote from: brewcity77 on August 15, 2013, 10:29:43 AM
I think proximity would make it difficult to ever truly rival Duke and North Carolina. Part of what makes that rivalry so great that they're only separated by a few miles on tobacco road. Marquette and Georgetown are 1000 miles apart in completely different parts of the country. It has the potential to be an excellent rivalry, but I can see it being impeded for the same reasons Kentucky versus Florida and Kansas versus Texas haven't taken off the level of Duke and Carolina.
Fair enough, maybe not a Duke-UNC level, but maybe a Georgetown-Syracuse level?
Quote from: Bleuteaux on August 15, 2013, 10:55:40 AM
Fair enough, maybe not a Duke-UNC level, but maybe a Georgetown-Syracuse level?
FS1 would probably hope that the marquee rivalry would be GTown vs. St. Johns - two original BE members that would resonate better/easier with college basketball fans, particularly on the east coast.
Quote from: bilsu on August 15, 2013, 10:48:10 AM
You could really get the rivalry a lot of coverage if you could get the No. 1 Jesuit to attend the game.
The "Pope Bowl".
If only DePaul wasn't so bad we might have something...
I think X will end up being our biggest rival. They are easy to dislike.
Quote from: Bleuteaux on August 15, 2013, 10:55:40 AM
Fair enough, maybe not a Duke-UNC level, but maybe a Georgetown-Syracuse level?
Georgetown v. Syracuse is at the Duke v UNC level. I don't think we'll ever have a rivalry like that again. I will hate Syracuse till the day I die and I will teach my children to hate syracuse even if we never play them again. In terms of new conference rivals I think our best fit is Villanova, but I wouldn't mind St. John's either we have history with both those teams. It's hard to hate you guys too much as we have only been in the conference together a limited amount of time and you're so far away.
It's hard to fit teams together with rivalries by location and competitive balance at this point. No one wants to get stuck with DePaul. I think Creighton v. Marquette, DePaul v. Butler, Providence v. Xavier, Villanova v. Georgetown, and St. Johns v. Seton Hall comes close. I could also see DePaul v. Seton Hall, Providence v. St. John's and Xavier v. Butler.
There just isn't enough history there yet for it to be a big time rivalry. We need several years of us both being at the top of the league and battling each other late in the season for championships to develop any true animosity.
We have any played them 13 times in the Big East and very few of those games have been super close. Both teams have only won once on the road and the two tournament meetings have been blowouts.
It has the potential to become a better rivalry if the games become more consistently close and some upsets happen on the road. It has a chance now that we will play them at least 2 times a year for the next few years but needs more time and one or two classic games.
Quote from: hoyasincebirth on August 15, 2013, 12:06:49 PM
Georgetown v. Syracuse is at the Duke v UNC level.
Nobody not associated with G'Town nor Syracuse would ever claim that.
MU/Georgetown could eventually surpass MU/Louisville. Duke/UNC is another stratosphere with Yankees/Red Sox, Alabama/Auburn, and Michigan/Ohio State.
Quote from: hoyasincebirth on August 15, 2013, 12:06:49 PM
Georgetown v. Syracuse is at the Duke v UNC level.
As an objective outsider who cheers for neither Duke, UNC, Syracuse or Georgetown, I completely disagree
While G'town might want to cling to the Syracuse rivalry as a relic of better days, the bottom line is you can't be rivals with someone you don't play.
To Georgetown it will be:
1. vs St John's
2. vs Villanova
3. vs Marquette
We have to find the team that sees us as their #1 rival first. Xavier is a good option. DePaul should be.
Quote from: Aughnanure on August 15, 2013, 01:42:35 PM
We have to find the team that sees us as their #1 rival first. Xavier is a good option.
Knocking Butler out of the tournament was a good first step to becoming their #1 rival.
Quote from: WI_inferiority_complexes on August 15, 2013, 01:48:15 PM
Knocking Butler out of the tournament was a good first step to becoming their #1 rival.
I think a rival has to be a school that the majority of fans just hate to lose to and is also a competitor in the recruiting circles. I do not see where we are often going after the same players as Georgetown, Xavier or Butler. I think DePaul easily becomes our greatest rival, if they ever get good again.
Quote from: Aughnanure on August 15, 2013, 01:42:35 PM
To Georgetown it will be:
1. vs St John's
2. vs Villanova
3. vs Marquette
We have to find the team that sees us as their #1 rival first. Xavier is a good option. DePaul should be.
If we beat Georgetown on a regular basis and/or regularly fight with them for the BE title, they'll see us as a rival. If not, they won't.
Kinda like schools that have been metioned as possible rivals for MU - Xavier, Butler or DePaul. If we pound them into oblivion, we won't see them as rivls. But if those teams are good and regularly compete with us, we're more likely to view them as a rival.
That's why, despite the geographic proximity, most MU fans don't see DePaul as a rival. They should be, and maybe someday they will be again, but for now, they simply aren't.
Short-term, I see the biggest opportunities with Creighton, Butler or Xavier. Longer term, it depends who wins.
Quote from: Bleuteaux on August 15, 2013, 01:33:49 PM
As an objective outsider who cheers for neither Duke, UNC, Syracuse or Georgetown, I completely disagree
Agree. However, it certainly was the second best rivalry in the country. Rivalry week usually seemed to kick-off on Monday with GTown-SU followed by Duke-UNC as the late game. In the 80's, it was def number one. I think UConn-SU surpassed GTown-SU because of the Calhoun-boeheim matchup and the 6 overtime game. But those rivalries put the BE on the map so it's hard to downplay them.
Quote from: Litehouse on August 15, 2013, 12:38:29 PM
MU/Georgetown could eventually surpass MU/Louisville. Duke/UNC is another stratosphere with Yankees/Red Sox, Alabama/Auburn, and Michigan/Ohio State.
Perfectly stated.
I always loved the Bedlam series between OK & OK state
Quote from: Litehouse on August 15, 2013, 12:38:29 PM
MU/Georgetown could eventually surpass MU/Louisville.
I agree. And there is no real geographic proximity that explains the MU/Louisville rivalry. The rivalry developed because they were two top programs in the conference and they had a string of incredible games.
Quote from: Litehouse on August 15, 2013, 12:38:29 PM
MU/Georgetown could eventually surpass MU/Louisville. Duke/UNC is another stratosphere with Yankees/Red Sox, Alabama/Auburn, and Michigan/Ohio State.
People view those rivalries as on another level because the media hypes it as such. Georgetown v. Syracuse is built on pure hate and there is no mutual respect like in the Duke v. UNC rivalry. Just pure unadulterated hate. I don't care what anyone says. But Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other as much or more than any sports rivalry. If you're not a part of it, you cannot know. These teams used to get into physical fights on the court in the 80s. The duke v. UNC rivalry is overblown by ESPN. Southerners are too nice to really hate each other. Up north we know how it's done. It's a rivalry based on them being close together and competitive, but they don't truly hate each other the way Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other.
feel free to argue otherwise, but it won't change my opinion.
Quote from: hoyasincebirth on August 15, 2013, 06:25:21 PM
Southerners are too nice to really hate each other. Up north we know how it's done. It's a rivalry based on them being close together and competitive, but they don't truly hate each other the way Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other.
There's a good book titled "To Hate Like this is to be Happy Forever," which outlines the rivalry and its roots.
I understand you're biased towards your school's rivalry, but your perception of the mutual respect shown by Duke/UNC is way, way off. UNC hates Duke the way only a public school can hate the private school down the road. While at UNC, Larry Brown was in a bad brawl with a Duke player, there have been numerous instances of violence between the two fan bases; they absolutely hate each other.
Also, Southerns are not as nice as necessarily nice as you seem to think.
Quote from: WI_inferiority_complexes on August 15, 2013, 06:42:46 PM
There's a good book titled "To Hate Like this is to be Happy Forever," which outlines the rivalry and its roots.
I understand you're biased towards your school's rivalry, but your perception of the mutual respect shown by Duke/UNC is way, way off. UNC hates Duke the way only a public school can hate the private school down the road. While at UNC, Larry Brown was in a bad brawl with a Duke player, there have been numerous instances of violence between the two fan bases; they absolutely hate each other.
Also, Southerns are not as nice as necessarily nice as you seem to think.
Southerners have people fooled. They are nice and sweet to everyone's face, but would stab their own family in the back the moment they step away from them.
Northerners typically tell it like it is. If they like you, they are nice to you. If they don't they'll let you know.
Quote from: hoyasincebirth on August 15, 2013, 06:25:21 PM
People view those rivalries as on another level because the media hypes it as such. Georgetown v. Syracuse is built on pure hate and there is no mutual respect like in the Duke v. UNC rivalry. Just pure unadulterated hate. I don't care what anyone says. But Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other as much or more than any sports rivalry. If you're not a part of it, you cannot know. These teams used to get into physical fights on the court in the 80s. The duke v. UNC rivalry is overblown by ESPN. Southerners are too nice to really hate each other. Up north we know how it's done. It's a rivalry based on them being close together and competitive, but they don't truly hate each other the way Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other.
feel free to argue otherwise, but it won't change my opinion.
You may hate Syracuse, but it's just not there. Sorry. The kind of rivalry Duke and UNC have is the kind of rivalry that is bred 365 days a year by constant contact. And even their rivalry, which is unquestionably the fiercest in college basketball, still isn't a rivalry that you can put up with the true bitter rivalries in sports. Those rivalries are deeper than just a team or a game, those are the rivalries where religious and political lines are displayed between the lines of a game. Rivalries like Lazio and Roma, Barcelona and Real Madrid, and Rangers and Celtic are unlike anything we have in this country.
Quote from: forgetful on August 15, 2013, 07:37:29 PM
Southerners have people fooled. They are nice and sweet to everyone's face, but would stab their own family in the back the moment they step away from them.
Northerners typically tell it like it is. If they like you, they are nice to you. If they don't they'll let you know.
Wow. Stunning in its broad brush, simplistic bigotry.
Quote from: hoyasincebirth on August 15, 2013, 06:25:21 PM
People view those rivalries as on another level because the media hypes it as such. Georgetown v. Syracuse is built on pure hate and there is no mutual respect like in the Duke v. UNC rivalry. Just pure unadulterated hate. I don't care what anyone says. But Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other as much or more than any sports rivalry. If you're not a part of it, you cannot know. These teams used to get into physical fights on the court in the 80s. The duke v. UNC rivalry is overblown by ESPN. Southerners are too nice to really hate each other. Up north we know how it's done. It's a rivalry based on them being close together and competitive, but they don't truly hate each other the way Georgetown and Syracuse hate each other.
feel free to argue otherwise, but it won't change my opinion.
I will defer to your knowledge of the hatred in the Georgetown-Syracuse rivalry. But ...
It is now officially an ex-rivalry. To continute to be a rivalry, teams need to ... I don't know ... actually play each other.
It's kind of like the Marquette-Notre Dame rivalry. It simply has gone away, courtesy of conference shuffling. I'm hoping we start back up with a regular non-con game, just as we play Wisconsin every year, but we'll see. I hope you the Hoyas get the same with Syracuse down the line.
Now, as much as I'll defer to your Hoyas knowledge, I will say you are in no position to talk about the Duke-UNC rivalry.
Believe me, they hate each other. More importantly, the fans hate each other. I mean, pretty much everybody hates Duke.
Quote from: Litehouse on August 15, 2013, 12:38:29 PM
MU/Georgetown will could eventually surpass MU/Louisville. Duke/UNC is another stratosphere with Yankees/Red Sox, Alabama/Auburn, and Michigan/Ohio State.
It's only a matter of time before the Louisville rivalry goes by the wayside now that both teams are in different conferences and given the distance between the schools.
Everyone likes us too much for us to get any real rivals. Even Louisville fans generally like our school and teams. Even schools that don't like us, like wisconsin, don't exactly hate us either. Its just a weird function of getting in late in the conference game and then only staying connected with a doormat like depaul.
Quote from: Atticus on August 15, 2013, 11:55:42 AM
I think X will end up being our biggest rival. They are easy to dislike.
It's true. Just ask Yancy Gates.
Quote from: brewcity77 on August 15, 2013, 09:25:29 PM
You may hate Syracuse, but it's just not there. Sorry. The kind of rivalry Duke and UNC have is the kind of rivalry that is bred 365 days a year by constant contact. And even their rivalry, which is unquestionably the fiercest in college basketball, still isn't a rivalry that you can put up with the true bitter rivalries in sports. Those rivalries are deeper than just a team or a game, those are the rivalries where religious and political lines are displayed between the lines of a game. Rivalries like Lazio and Roma, Barcelona and Real Madrid, and Rangers and Celtic are unlike anything we have in this country.
One of the nastiest sports rivalries out there that not many people know about... BYU and Utah
Quote from: windyplayer on August 15, 2013, 11:16:03 PM
It's only a matter of time before the Louisville rivalry goes by the wayside now that both teams are in different conferences and given the distance between the schools.
To the general fan base you are correct, but I do not think it will go away for me. Not as long as they keep successfully recruiting players MU wants. I do not think we have ever beaten them out for a recruit. For me there are two basketball seasons. The one where you recruit and the one where you play games.
In my opinion, the Michigan-tOSU is unmatched in all of college sports. I know it's more of football than bball, but still, that is the only college rivalry that matches the great and historic rivalries in sports (eg Packers-Bears, Sox-Yanks, etc)
I always thought Navy-Army was bigger than OSU-MI or would that not be considered 'college'?
Quote from: ElDonBDon on August 16, 2013, 09:47:50 AM
In my opinion, the Michigan-tOSU is unmatched in all of college sports. I know it's more of football than bball, but still, that is the only college rivalry that matches the great and historic rivalries in sports (eg Packers-Bears, Sox-Yanks, etc)
That game is still mostly a regional game...as most rivalries are. The 30 for 30 with Bo Jackson was the first time I learned just how huge the bama-auburn game is because I've never lived in that state or anywhere else in the deep south.
Quote from: WarriorInDC on August 16, 2013, 07:27:04 AM
One of the nastiest sports rivalries out there that not many people know about... BYU and Utah
What...do they get all hopped up on lemonade and call each other "flippin' idiots"?
No mention of the Kentucky Louisville rivalry? If I had to pick a rivalry that would match duke unc that'd be it
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on August 16, 2013, 10:40:06 AM
No mention of the Kentucky Louisville rivalry? If I had to pick a rivalry that would match duke unc that'd be it
Duke/North Carolina vs Louisville/Kentucky
Lousiville is looked down upon by a lot of Kentuckians, while a Duke or North Carolina fan may not like the other they really have no real reason to say their school or basketball program is better.
Duke & North Carolina are 9 miles apart and play more than once a year.
Duke and North Carolina are in the same conference.
Quote from: hoyasincebirth on August 15, 2013, 06:25:21 PM
Southerners are too nice to really hate each other. Up north we know how it's done.
I'm gonna guess you've never been to the South. Don't tell TAMU/UT that they don't know how to have a rivalry, or OK/OKST, or BAMA/AUB, FLA/FSU, USC/CLEM. Rivalries down here I would say surpass anything I've seen in the north.
I will give you that the southern rivalries are more based in football than basketball, but there is nothing nice about them.
Quote from: WarriorInDC on August 16, 2013, 07:27:04 AM
One of the nastiest sports rivalries out there that not many people know about... BYU and Utah
As a former employee of the University of Utah, I can vouch for this. I worked there for less than a year but I still will hate the Cougars for the rest of my days. That's how powerful the hate is.
I think Georgetown will emerge as our biggest rival. It is true that we don't have the geography, the history, or go after the same recruits. But rivalries are born by playing against each other in close, well played, often controversial, important games. I would not be surprised to see us and GTWN play each other in the championship game this year and in most years for the beginning of the new BEast. Years of trading close championship games will eventually solidify this as a solid rivalry.
Quote from: bilsu on August 15, 2013, 10:48:10 AM
You could really get the rivalry a lot of coverage if you could get the No. 1 Jesuit to attend the game.
LOL. I just got a great image of the FS1 cameras focused on the Pope and he is clad in G'Town attire rocking the #1 index finger! :D
Quote from: bilsu on August 16, 2013, 10:55:29 AM
Duke/North Carolina vs Louisville/Kentucky
Lousiville is looked down upon by a lot of Kentuckians, while a Duke or North Carolina fan may not like the other they really have no real reason to say their school or basketball program is better.
Duke & North Carolina are 9 miles apart and play more than once a year.
Duke and North Carolina are in the same conference.
Both schools are extremely good basketball programs, they're 80miles apart, there's a ton I history going back 99years including NCAA matchups. MU is looked down upon by a ton of Sconies yet that doesn't mean that the rivalry isn't heated.
Of the "natural" college football rivalries, none is bigger than OSU - Michigan. One not mentioned that I'd put in the top 5 is Texas - Oklahoma. Biggest inter sectional rivalry? USC - Notre Dame.
Lots of great CBB rivalries, but none come close to Duke - UNC.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 15, 2013, 09:53:48 PM
Wow. Stunning in its broad brush, simplistic bigotry.
And yet, he's more right than wrong.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 16, 2013, 11:58:53 AM
Of the "natural" college football rivalries, none is bigger than OSU - Michigan. One not mentioned that I'd put in the top 5 is Texas - Oklahoma. Biggest inter sectional rivalry? USC - Notre Dame.
Lots of great CBB rivalries, but none come close to Duke - UNC.
Auburn and Alabama would like to dispute this.
Quote from: windyplayer on August 15, 2013, 11:16:03 PM
It's only a matter of time before the Louisville rivalry goes by the wayside now that both teams are in different conferences and given the distance between the schools.
That is one of the worst parts of all this realignment, rivalries are dieing for the all mighty dollar.
Maryland/Duke
Nebraska/Oklahoma
Texas A&M/Texas
Marquette/Notre Dame
Georgetown/Syracuse
Pitt/West Virginia
And other ones are getting watered down by so many teams being in a conference.
How often is Duke/UNC going to happen twice a year now?
Quote from: tower912 on August 16, 2013, 01:06:01 PM
Auburn and Alabama would like to dispute this.
I have to slightly agree with this, a man killed trees because of this rivalry. But on the other hand my wife's cousins husband took back a table cloth they got for their wedding because it was too close to Ohio State red.
Quote from: slingkong on August 16, 2013, 01:02:26 PM
And yet, he's more right than wrong.
The self righteous, based somewhat on fact bigotry is the most dangerous kind.
Quote from: tower912 on August 16, 2013, 01:06:01 PM
Auburn and Alabama would like to dispute this.
Lot's of animosity between Alabama and Auburn, but it's never had the "Bo/Woody, for the title/Rose Bowl, possible National Championship implications" feel for me. HBO even made a documentary about OSU/Michigan. Alabama/Auburn seems more regional and one sided to me (like Texas/Texas A&M, USC/UCLA, etc).
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 16, 2013, 01:46:57 PM
Lot's of animosity between Alabama and Auburn, but it's never had the "Bo/Woody, for the title/Rose Bowl, possible National Championship implications" feel for me. HBO even made a documentary about OSU/Michigan. Alabama/Auburn seems more regional and one sided to me (like Texas/Texas A&M, USC/UCLA, etc).
I think you are suffering from some midwestern bias here.
Alabama
Usually
Beats
Us
'Round
November
Quote from: Terror Skink on August 16, 2013, 01:50:13 PM
I think you are suffering from some midwestern bias here.
Agreed. I've lived in the midwest most of my life, and even I can see that Alabama-Auburn is FAR more than a regional rivalry...and likely every bit as important on a national level as Michigan-OSU.
I'd say both are a serious rivalry, but I have to give the edge to OSU-Michigan. No only is the football game huge but they also battle each other in every other sport. As far as I know Auburn is only good at football so I assume Bama whoops on them in everything else.
Quote from: swoopem on August 16, 2013, 02:47:41 PM
I'd say both are a serious rivalry, but I have to give the edge to OSU-Michigan. No only is the football game huge but they also battle each other in every other sport. As far as I know Auburn is only good at football so I assume Bama whoops on them in everything else.
They really don't care about any other sport down there.
And this pretty much sums it up
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/9545194/college-football-biggest-rivalries
Quote from: swoopem on August 16, 2013, 02:47:41 PM
I'd say both are a serious rivalry, but I have to give the edge to OSU-Michigan. No only is the football game huge but they also battle each other in every other sport. As far as I know Auburn is only good at football so I assume Bama whoops on them in everything else.
If by "everything else," you mean only hoops, then yes. But if you're looking at all sports, it isn't too hard to find some where Auburn is as good as or better than Bama. For example, Auburn's swimming and diving team has won every SEC title since 1997. Not getting whooped by Bama in the pool.
And when was the last time someone from Michigan or OSU spent over two months in jail for doing damage on the other school's campus. The Bama fan who poisoned the huge old oak tree on the Auburn campus was released in June after serving 76 days in jail.
Yeah, it's a lovefest down there....
Quote from: GooooMarquette on August 16, 2013, 04:04:52 PM
If by "everything else," you mean only hoops, then yes. But if you're looking at all sports, it isn't too hard to find some where Auburn is as good as or better than Bama. For example, Auburn's swimming and diving team has won every SEC title since 1997. Not getting whooped by Bama in the pool.
And when was the last time someone from Michigan or OSU spent over two months in jail for doing damage on the other school's campus. The Bama fan who poisoned the huge old oak tree on the Auburn campus was released in June after serving 76 days in jail.
Yeah, it's a lovefest down there....
Auburn is serious about every single sport. Those nice posters/schedules MU prints up for Basketball and Soccer that have all the players on them? Auburn prints those up for every sport - down to the flag girls in the marching band. Their baseball stadium is nicer than most minor league parks I have been to. And their aquatics facility is likely the best collegiate one in the US. I went to Masters Swim Camp there a few years back and was in awe. Or maybe I was starstruck - Rowdy Gaines kept pushing on my head as I swam past him in an attempt to correct my body position.
Quote from: ElDonBDon on August 16, 2013, 03:48:34 PM
And this pretty much sums it up
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/9545194/college-football-biggest-rivalries
Thing I find interesting about this is that BYU-Utah was dead last in voting, but has the third most amount of 1st place votes.
Quote from: ElDonBDon on August 16, 2013, 03:48:34 PM
And this pretty much sums it up
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/9545194/college-football-biggest-rivalries
Evidently a poll with overwhelming "Midwest bias" LOL
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 16, 2013, 05:16:08 PM
Evidently a poll with overwhelming "Midwest bias" LOL
Compare the enrollment numbers. It isn't rocket science - bigger schools get more votes.
Quote from: Terror Skink on August 16, 2013, 02:49:21 PM
They really don't care about any other sport down there.
Exactly. Except for swimming, of course.
Quote from: GooooMarquette on August 16, 2013, 07:14:52 PM
Compare the enrollment numbers. It isn't rocket science - bigger schools get more votes.
Michigan - Ohio State has about as many first place votes as the next 12 "rivalry games" COMBINED. Explaining that away with enrollment numbers is pretty weak sauce.
Quote from: WarriorInDC on August 16, 2013, 04:53:03 PM
Thing I find interesting about this is that BYU-Utah was dead last in voting, but has the third most amount of 1st place votes.
Those who have heard of it know how much hatred there is. Because neither team has been a true football power (or a service academy or an Ivy league school) no one is going to think of them.
The options in that poll were crap though. Notre Dame alone has five or six storied rivalries that weren't listed, Texas/TAMU is pure hatred (the Aggies burn a 150 foot tall effigy every year before the UT game), and many others were shafted.
However, I will agree. Michigan v. "the" Ohio State trumps all other football rivalries. Not by miles like some seem to think, but there is none bigger.