(02-07-2021 01:21 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  From the AAC? Kinda tough, most of our rivals are from OOC.

I'll go with Navy, SMU, Tulsa if I have to stay in-conference.

That's true about most AAC teams. Is ANY team in the AAC a rival of Temple?

Illinois: If Northwestern is Illinois's rival, that means we suck (and we do).

I want to say Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan or Ohio State and this season in men's basketball it's justified. In football, our rivals should be Northwestern, no wait, they're too good for us, our rivals should be MAC teams.

Is this a conversation with only the FBS elite fans or can us FCS pesants join in?

If we can,

North Alabama- Jacksonville State, Chattanooga, Kennessaw State, Central Arkansas

(02-06-2021 11:02 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Penn State: Ohio State, Michigan. Pittsburgh

schmolik who would be your third in conference pick? I was interested to see who Penn State fans chose. My guess was that both Maryland and Rutgers would want Penn State but not sure if Penn State would want them. NJ offers the most recruits in the North East which Penn State does well there and there is history with Maryland.

(02-07-2021 07:51 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  Is this a conversation with only the FBS elite fans or can us FCS pesants join in?

If we can,

North Alabama- Jacksonville State, Chattanooga, Kennessaw State, Central Arkansas

All are welcome peasants and serfs

(02-07-2021 08:02 AM)Arch Stanton Wrote:  

(02-07-2021 07:51 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  Is this a conversation with only the FBS elite fans or can us FCS pesants join in?

If we can,

North Alabama- Jacksonville State, Chattanooga, Kennessaw State, Central Arkansas

All are welcome peasants and serfs

Appreciative fine sir... Wasn't sure being the only posts prior to my own were from the elite ranks...

(02-07-2021 08:10 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  

(02-07-2021 08:02 AM)Arch Stanton Wrote:  

(02-07-2021 07:51 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  Is this a conversation with only the FBS elite fans or can us FCS pesants join in?

If we can,

North Alabama- Jacksonville State, Chattanooga, Kennessaw State, Central Arkansas

All are welcome peasants and serfs

Appreciative fine sir... Wasn't sure being the only posts prior to my own were from the elite ranks...

I don't know as much about FCS rivals so posting your FCS teams rivals would be great

(02-07-2021 07:58 AM)Arch Stanton Wrote:  

(02-06-2021 11:02 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Penn State: Ohio State, Michigan. Pittsburgh

schmolik who would be your third in conference pick? I was interested to see who Penn State fans chose. My guess was that both Maryland and Rutgers would want Penn State but not sure if Penn State would want them. NJ offers the most recruits in the North East which Penn State does well there and there is history with Maryland.

If I had to choose between them I'd probably say Maryland. Rutgers is a stupid name. Penn State and Michigan State have ended the season fairly often but they don't border each other like Penn State and Ohio State do and Michigan State isn't the #1 school in their state like Michigan is.

Penn State: Ohio State, Maryland, Rutgers

Ohio State is someone we've played non-stop since joining the conference and is/was our closest school. Maryland and Rutgers are also close and have a long history with prior to our Big Ten membership. They also are located in areas where we like to recruit students and athletes. I also don't want to confuse who I want to play against with who I think are rivals because I wouldn't circle the calendar or have a White Out for Maryland or Rutgers.

Why not Michigan State? I don't care about MSU. They are more annoying than anything. Penn State plays down to Michigan State and blows their chances by either being stupid, MSU having the game of their life, and/or some other funky business going on. For some reason, Penn State and Michigan State has been a pretty even affair but you wouldn't expect it comparing the history of the two programs. Unfortunately for me, that results in annoyance rather than a feeling of a rivalry.

Why not Michigan? As much as I want to beat Michigan every year and I think of us as historic heavyweights, I just wouldn't miss them if either of us left the conference. In a vacuum, if Penn State and/or everyone one else left the conference, I wouldn't want to make Michigan a top priority to play regularly the way I would for Ohio State, Maryland, and Rutgers. For example, if Penn State joined the ACC, Michigan would be replaced with Clemson or Florida State and I wouldn't miss them.

(02-07-2021 09:20 AM)GE and MTS Wrote:  Penn State: Ohio State, Maryland, Rutgers

Ohio State is someone we've played non-stop since joining the conference and is/was our closest school. Maryland and Rutgers are also close and have a long history with prior to our Big Ten membership. They also are located in areas where we like to recruit students and athletes. I also don't want to confuse who I want to play against with who I think are rivals because I wouldn't circle the calendar or have a White Out for Maryland or Rutgers.

Why not Michigan State? I don't care about MSU. They are more annoying than anything. Penn State plays down to Michigan State and blows their chances by either being stupid, MSU having the game of their life, and/or some other funky business going on. For some reason, Penn State and Michigan State has been a pretty even affair but you wouldn't expect it comparing the history of the two programs. Unfortunately for me, that results in annoyance rather than a feeling of a rivalry.

Why not Michigan? As much as I want to beat Michigan every year and I think of us as historic heavyweights, I just wouldn't miss them if either of us left the conference. In a vacuum, if Penn State and/or everyone one else left the conference, I wouldn't want to make Michigan a top priority to play regularly the way I would for Ohio State, Maryland, and Rutgers. For example, if Penn State joined the ACC, Michigan would be replaced with Clemson or Florida State and I wouldn't miss them.

I would miss Michigan. When I was at Penn State there was a season when Penn State and Michigan were both undefeated late in the season and Michigan came to Penn State and destroyed us. Also my hate for Michigan was also from my Illinois undergrad days. They were in the Big Ten what Ohio State is now, the top banana. I went to Illinois during the Fab Five era (I was still in high school when Michigan beat Illinois in the Final Four or I would have really hated Michigan).

USF if we remain in the AAC?

UCF, Tulane, ECU

GS
CCU
Troy


In fantasyland Conference:

GS
Marshall
ECU

For Georgia-Auburn, Florida and South Carolina
For Kentucky-Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Florida

Texas already plays everyone, but the top 3 would be Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Baylor.

For odu it would be va tech,east carolina, and navy in football,vcu in basketball

Troy: South Alabama, Arkansas State, and 1 of Louisiana, ULM, App State, Georgia Southern, or Georgia State

OOC: UAB, USM, MTSU

UVA - Virginia Tech, North Carolina and Duke

With out of conference: VT, UNC and Maryland

For UGa, in-conference: Auburn, Florida, & Tennessee. If Tennessee wasn't available, then I would take S.Carolina.
OOC: Georgia Tech, Clemson, and either Miami-FL or FSU.

For Oregon, in-conference: Oregon State, Washington, Stanford
OOC: Purdue, Michigan State, San Diego State

For Troy, in-conference: South Alabama, Appalachian State, Arkansas State or Georgia Southern
OOC: Marshall, Southern Miss, UAB or Jax State

(02-07-2021 02:51 AM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  Hawaii: Fresno State (50 football games played against), San Jose State (40), San Diego State (33)

At one time we had a good rivalry with BYU (32) but that’s petered out since the old WAC days.

Doesn't BYU get a lot of their players from Hawaii? I would think BYU would want to have Hawaii as a regular opponent

In conference:

Cincinnati
Houston
Tulane

OOC:

Tennessee
Ole Miss
Louisville

(02-07-2021 11:22 AM)bullet Wrote:  For Georgia-Auburn, Florida and South Carolina
For Kentucky-Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Florida

Texas already plays everyone, but the top 3 would be Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Baylor.

Georgia: South Carolina over Georgia Tech?

Texas: Texas already plays everyone ... except A&M of course.