re: Do delusional Arky fans really think they're our biggest rival?

Ole Miss is the biggest rival of LSU. I'm 63 and I graduated from LSU in 1972. I lived on campus for three years and LSU had an Ole Miss week. We had dumpster fires, panty raids, and GO TO HELL OLE MISS buttons. I was a sophomore back in '69 when Archie Who caused us to lose a NC. Ole Miss and LSU are still big rivals. If you look up the history between the two schools, you'll know what I'm talking about. No other school that we played in the SEC ever came close to the Ole Miss and LSU game.

Alabama vs Auburn is the Major Rival
Alabama vs LSU is second for BAMA
Alabama vs Tennessee is third but should be second.
Alabama vs the rest is 4th

Alabama vs Auburn will always be #1 for those two schools

Miss St. vs Ole Miss will always be #1 for those two schools

Georgia vs Georgia Tech
LSU vs Arkansas not Alabama
Florida vs FSU
New one Missouri vs Texas A&M
Vandy vs Kentucky

Secondary games of great quality:

Auburn vs Georgia
Alabama vs Tennessee
Alabama vs LSU

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gumbeaux: Players interviewed have said that they could go 1-11 for the season as long as they beat LSU.

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I call BS on this! Produce a link to an article or video.

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I live here in Arkansas with many Hog friends and able to watch local sports programming. I can tell you that LSU, for some reason, is at the top of their rival list

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Yeah, and you're looking through LSU "colored" glasses that skews your perspective majorly. You speak for LSU fans, but not the majority of Razorback fans...who are the topic of this post.

Bama is a "universal" rival for Auburn. LSU IS NOT a "universal" rival for Arkansas. Rivals are not based on a few of your Hog friends who are looking for bragging rights.

I don't know what the fascination is for some LSU fans to rant and rave that "LSU is Arkansas' #1 rival (the make or break game of the year), but we sure don't consider Arkansas as our rival." This comes off as an pathetic attempt to feel better about yourselves. LSU is a good program, be proud of that.

A 2008 quote from our retired AD:
"When we left the Southwest Conference and I'd see fans and they would talk about a game back when I coached or (Ken) Hatfield or Lou Holtz coached, the only game they ever talked about was a Texas game," Arkansas athletic director Frank Broyles said. I have not had a single soul say, 'Do you remember the SMU game of '55 or '66?' They don't even talk about it."For Arkansas fans, Texas has been the No. 1 rival for 70 years."

Tennessee had a chance to become the biggest game for us after the 1998 & 1999 games, because while it may not be the same hue of Orange, they are UT, so it's close enough.

Arkansas Rival: Texas Longhorns

Very Important Games (in no certain order):
Alabama Crimson Tide
LSU Tigers
Auburn Tigers
Ole Miss Rebels
Miss St Bulldogs
*any other SEC game.

I think Arkansas will be a bigger game when and if they get on top of SEC but there's no doubt we are bigger game to them. As for the game I knew we were in trouble at kickoff as we were so flat and Ark was fired up which in my opinion falls on coaches. I know they were probobly spent from Bama game but really no excuse for that on top of QB play.

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I think Arkansas will be a bigger game when and if they get on top of SEC but there's no doubt we are bigger game to them.

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If LSU doesn't look at the Arkansas game as a big game, then that sounds like a problem for LSU. In the SEC you can't really afford to discount ANY team.

For Arkansas, the LSU game is no bigger than any other SEC game. It is a big game, but so is Ole Miss, aTm, and the others.

Like I said earlier, Arkansas' important games are: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, etc.

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Honestly, I think Bama's is: 

1a-Auburn 
1b-LSU

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1 - AU
2 - TN

..and does it really matter after that?

LSU is a fairly big game the past few years, but that hardly makes it a rivalry.

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Tulane.

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would be a bigger rival to us than you, I wish I could find the article that quoted the head of your alumni chapter in Shreveport when Arky joined the SEC, to paraphrase, "we don't know much about the SEC and we don't have a rival, so we're picking LSU, as of today we hate LSU!" I think that was in the Shreveport Times, and we're like OK, whatever, one thing's for sure, the pigs sure bring out the worst in our team

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And once again, it ain't LSU.

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but you sure spend a lot of time on an LSU board trying to argue your point

I've seen several Tigers state A&M is their biggest rival now.

I would like to point out that Arkansas and LSU has played each other more times than LSU and A&M has played each other.

I would also like to point out that Arkansas and A&M has played each other more than LSU and A&M has played each other.

We are a bigger rival for each of you than you are to each other.

This thread comes off as an LSU fan just being arrogant though and trying to get his shots off on Arky because he is butt hurt over the loss.

Since Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Ole Miss, and Miss State have bigger rivals on their schedule we can't really say we have a biggest rivalry game with those schools, but we can think of them as our top rival in like Michigan State considers Michigan their biggest rival but Michigan will say Ohio State.

I would like LSU to have Arkansas and TAMU as our biggest rivalry games since they lost their biggest annual rival Texas and we lost Tulane.

I won't get bent out of shape about Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida, and Miss State having bigger rivals than us though since I love to beat those schools.