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West Virginia vs Marshall

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I was on wemustignitethiscouch.com and I noticed that WVU seems to feel the same way about marshall as we feel about CSU.

I think the circumstances are very similar. Basically a lose/lose situation. You beat them then good you should have beaten them but if you lose then haha you just lost to Marshall. Its Marshall's superbowl so they are always pumped up to beat them.

I can't really think of many other teams that have a situation like ours/WVU.
 
WVU/Marshall is a very unique situation. From my understanding (ex-gf's parents were pretty big WVU boosters), the teams have played sparingly and it took a very unique agreement to actually get them to play a yearly series. I think WVU actually gets a majority of the games at home. Plus Marshall has only been a 1-A team for about 15 years now. The Randy Moss era also created a lot of bad blood between the two schools too.
 
Notre Dame vs the academies. LSU - Tulane. Utah - Utah state. Maybe those.... but you're right I really can't think of that many. Of course some years they become bigger rivals a few years in a row but usually the outcome of the game is a given.
 
There are plenty of them out there, they're just stuck in the same conference. I guess that makes it different, but down here, OU fans totally feel this way about playing OSU -- in football at least. They love it in the other sports.
 
OKCBuff said:
There are plenty of them out there, they're just stuck in the same conference. I guess that makes it different, but down here, OU fans totally feel this way about playing OSU -- in football at least. They love it in the other sports.
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But when they are in the same conference at least the game means something. I meant the instate rivalries where they play in two different brands of football. (BCS vs non-BCS)

The other thing is it doesn't really effect the big teams like OSU vs youngstown state and so on.
 
Yeah I know what you were getting at. I guess I'm just saying that there are other states with a similar internal dynamic as CU-CSU (where big bro school would rather not play them and little bro makes it their whole season).
 
GregInAustin said:
Notre Dame vs the academies. LSU - Tulane. Utah - Utah state. Maybe those.... but you're right I really can't think of that many. Of course some years they become bigger rivals a few years in a row but usually the outcome of the game is a given.
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Except Notre Dame needs those teams (their real problem is losing to Navy 2 out of 3 years), just like Boise St needs its weak conference schedule...
 
on a side note, that is my absolute favorite name for a message board.
 
Minnesota VS Minnesota State

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Going back to my Marshall/CSU comparison, this game looks a lot like what CSU did to us last year.
 
I see the comparison between Marshall/WV and CU/CSU because it's one of the rare in-state "rivalries" that involves a BCS vs. a non-BCS school. I also realize that series like OU/OSU or probably Michigan/MSU are similar, but at least in those cases both schools are BCS schools and are in the same conference, therefore it only makes sense that they should be or have to be playing each other. There's also a few cases where they're in different conferences like Clemson-USC or UGA-GT but they're still both in BCS conferences in those cases.

I don't know the history of the WV/Marshall series but I'm sure Marshall got a better case for the 2 playing each other once they moved up to the I-A level a while back, but even so WV is clearly the big dog in the state and is in a BCS conference. Someone was mentioning earlier that it took quite a bit of politicking to get this series to be played and I'm sure that WV doesn't care for it, anymore than we care for the series with CSU. WV's true rival is Pitt anyway.
 
The WVU site is down now too. :lol: This is crazy. I was going for WVU at first but now go herd!
 
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