<p>Michigan-Notre Dame is a pretty big one too. Not nearly as big as Michigan-OSU though.</p>
<p>Down in Florida, it's not just UF-FSU, it's more like UM-FSU-UF. I'm a nerd so I tried to match it up so that each school is next to its most hated rival. UM and FSU hate each other, while UM and UF really don't like each other, but don't get to meet up on the gridiron too often. Obviously UF vs. FSU is huge.</p>
<p>to throw in another off topic rivalry: </p>
<p>University of Kentucky-University of Louisville. It's huge in everything, from basketball to football.</p>
<p>peach3s and purrli, you are probably mistaken if Northwestern students did that at Michigan games. Hopefully the average Northwestern student knows that Michigan is a better school in most departments. If they did this to Purdue or Indiana or Ohio State, or well...any other big ten school (save UIUC and Wisconsin), that would be understandable, but I'd hope NU students would be educated enough to know Michigan is an outstanding school academically (it's under CC top universities for a reason). I chose Michigan over Northwestern because it was better academically in what I wanted to do, and many students I've met at Michigan have done the same. I'd venture to say Michigan and Northwestern students get the same caliber jobs upon graduation.</p>
<p>Although not an athletic rival, NU does rival UChicago some, NU students refer to to Uchicago as "Where fun goes to die"</p>
<p>Everyone refers to UChicago as "where fun goes to die". Its cause it's true. Largest core anywhere.</p>
<p>I think which rivalries are the biggest is largely a product of where you live. I live in NJ, so I'm not close to any rivalries (except Rutgers v. Seton Hall).</p>
<p>I am an avid college sports fan and I rank them:
1. Michigan - Ohio State (great history)
2. Florida - Florida St. (two great programs)
3. Alabama - Auburn (those in the SEC love their football)
4. Texas - Oklahoma (I went to Texas and if you ask what time it is in Austin the response is the time followed by "...and OU still sucks". Classic.)
5. Army - Navy (largely overlooked but there is a lot of pride)
6. Harvard - Yale (old, rich white men pretend to care that one is better than the other)
7. Duke - UNC (9 miles, 2 great programs, 2 great universities)
8. UC - Stanford (If the band can get on the field, the rivalry makes the list)
9. Georgia - Ga. Tech (the rivalry is dubbed "Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate")
10. Louisville - Kentucky (Kentucky people love their basketball)</p>
<p>All apologies to fans of UCLA/USC, Notre Dame/anybody, WV/Pitt, any big 10 team (except Northwestern with no natural rivals)/any other big 10 team.</p>
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10. Louisville - Kentucky (Kentucky people love their basketball)
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<p>Go Cats!</p>
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<li>West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech (football)</li>
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<p>Sorry, but Virginia Tech's biggest rival is UVA and WV's biggest rival is Pittsburgh, so I'm not sure how that rivalry works.</p>
<p>And to a VT/WV matchup.. hokie hokie hokie hi hi hi</p>
<p>UF-FSU is HUGE in FL, in fact I'm rooting against FSU right now for no other reason than it's FSU. I can't wait to go to the games when I'm there, it's gonna be absolutely crazy.</p>
<p>nice list assassin. I agreed with everything except that i thought UF-FSU was too high, but maybe i just dont know enough about that one. GO BLUE!</p>
<p>Indiana University v. Purdue - another huge Big 10 rivalry... northwestern is the least sports intensive school in the Big 10 so they don't really have a "rival." This year they had a good football team so schools like Indiana, Minnesota, and Illinois became bigger football rivals.</p>
<p>I have lived in Indiana for 15 years and can attest to the IU-Purdue animosity, but still comes down siblings maybe cousins who at the end of the day will root for each other against outsiders. Both state schools drawing from same High School population with different institutional strengths andc weaknesses.<br>
Spent 4 years at Duke. Charter Member Camerson Crazie. Duke-UNC rivalry extends to all facets of academic, athletic, and social interaction between campuses and alumni. I recently worked in NC, and UNC alums were clearly less friendly when they found out I attended Duke lo those many years ago. There is also the Yankee vs Redneck thing going on, although I will be the first to jump in and say none of the UNC alums I have met over the years qualify as true rednecks and are smart enough to see that their own institution has been enhanced by the drive to compete and collaborate with Duke and vice-versa. </p>
<p>Still, I wonder if they still sell the t-shirts that say "NC State Sucks" on the front and on the back "But Carolina Swallows" :) A classic...</p>
<p>Oh yeah, topic thread, NWU rivals - not really. C'mon who doesn't like Evanston? Besides you have to beat someone often enough and make them slink out of their own gym/field as losers a few times before they start to hate you.</p>
<p>largest core?</p>
<p>core curriculum</p>
<p>very nice list cerebral assassin. I'd have put Auburn-Bama at 2, and probably wouldn't have even thought of Harvard-Yale, but that is a pretty good summary.</p>
<p>and chibearsfan, you sound pretty desperate to defend your school academically... i would probably agree with the statement that most of
michigan's GRAD depts. are better than NU's, but as far as undergrad is concerned, your desperation definitely reveals something...</p>
<p>"U of Oregon and Oregon State are HUGE rivals... how can you not talk about them? (stupid East coasters always haten on the Northern PAC 10... i HATE Cali...)"</p>
<p>Cal is on the west coast buddy. But anyways....Cal pwns oregon.</p>
<p>University of Michigan is definitly the equal of Northwestern academically. Chibearsfan's post didn't sound in the least bit "desperate"- he was simply pointing out that the perceived academic disparity (as demonstrated by that puerile little stunt) was overstated. I know plenty of kids who have gone to both schools or been accepted at both schools and their test scores/gpas/ecs have all been of a similar caliber- the only difference is the environment they wanted and the academic area they were interested in.</p>
Northwestern does not really have a rival (part of the reason is Illinois is always during break. There are schools that many NU students dislike such as Penn State, or more recently Wisconsin (due to back-in-forth victories). NU does not really care about Michigan at all (if anything students like them more than others). Northwestern HATES Chicago and vice versa but because Chicago sports are not even on the same level there is no rivalry.
Just find it important to mention due to previous comments, Michigan is a great school (one of the best public schools) but 32% acceptance compared to 13%, it’s a big difference.
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