re: CBS ranks the top 5 modern rivalries in CFB

Posted by The Easter Bunny

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 8:46 pm to VABuckeye

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Take a look at the recruiting rankings for the last four years and you'll find that answer.

Results on the field also bear this out.

Should use NFL as the gauge for talent, not recruiting rankings

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Posted by theducks

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 8:53 pm to TulaneFan

Sorry to tell you but nobody actually watches it outside of the SEC

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Posted by mattz1122

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 8:56 pm to theducks

Yeah, no one watched it outside the Deep South in 2010, 2013 and 2014...

Posted by theducks

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 8:59 pm to mattz1122

You're better than this.

Unless they're both high ranked nobody up here really cares. They'll watch cuz it's football, not cuz it's the iron bowl. The Kick Six has given it a ton of hype

Posted by mattz1122

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:07 pm to theducks

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Unless they're both high ranked nobody up here really cares.

Well, you can say this about every rivalry when it comes to viewers outside the region.

This post was edited on 8/20/16 at 9:08 pm

Posted by WestCoastAg

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:11 pm to theducks

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sorry to tell you but nobody actually watches it outside of the SEC

very true

Posted by Fus0623

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:24 pm to lynxcat

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LSU hasn't won in five years.

Posted by xenythx

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:26 pm to Fus0623

They forgot Alabama vs. Themselves.

Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:32 pm to WestCoastAg

Meyer vs. Harbaugh...you can see why someone would put the two trending programs #1 right now.

Posted by OWLFAN86

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:35 pm to WinnPtiger

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TCU Baylor about to fall off the map because.....Baylor

nah,,, Baylors real rival is morality

Posted by bgtiger

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:43 pm to FootballNostradamus

Almost every LSU Bama game has "meant something"

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Posted by WestCoastAg

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:48 pm to bgtiger

I mean some have sure. But not almost every

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Posted by CelticDog

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 9:49 pm to Rig

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Winner of the IB played in the national championship for 5 straight years or more yet it's not top 5? That's silly

surely the editors/authors agreed not to have one school appear two or more times.

Yale Harvard
USCw UCLA
Cornell Penn

This post was edited on 8/20/16 at 9:50 pm

Posted by VABuckeye

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 10:06 pm to The Easter Bunny

Well then take a look the draft this past April.

Posted by schexyoung

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 10:29 pm to WestCoastAg

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5. TCU-Baylor

I guess they thought... "Hey we need SOMETHING from the formerly relevant BIG12."

Posted by Socratics

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Posted on 8/20/16 at 10:30 pm to WestCoastAg

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Excluding just a short list of "traditional rivalries" -- Alabama-Auburn, Michigan-Ohio State, Notre Dame-USC, Oklahoma-Texas, Army-Navy, BYU-Utah, Cal-Stanford, Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, Clemson-South Carolina, UCLA-USC, Arizona-Arizona State, Ole Miss Rebels , Mississippi State Bulldogs , Oregon-Oregon State -- here are the next best modern rivalries.

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What are the MSBs thoughts

1. Michigan State-Ohio State
2. Florida State-Clemson
3. Alabama-LSU
4. Stanford-Oregon
5. TCU-Baylor

If we aren't counting traditional Rivalries, then its just really a question of the order. Who else really deserves to be on the list?

Does Arkansas vs LSU or Florida vs LSU count?