This document discusses several top college football rivalries in the United States. It describes the Army-Navy rivalry as being personal and emotional, with fans often in tears by the end of the game. It notes that the Alabama-Auburn rivalry is intense as Alabama has no professional sports teams to divert attention. The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is described as one where the coaches and fans strongly dislike the other school. The Utah-BYU rivalry has religious undertones as BYU is run by Mormons while Utah is a state school.

1. Top College Football Rivalries
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2. Army - Navy
The Army-Navy rivalry is an age-old tradition, which
extends beyond just the football field, making sure that
things during these games get personal. Whether it’s tears
of joy or grief, by the time a game is over, everybody in the
stadium is crying.

3. Alabama - Auburn
Few people go as
nuts for football as
Alabamans do, and
with no professional
sports teams in the
state, Alabama is
able to focus all of
their attention on
this one massive
rivalry.

4. Ohio State - Michigan
Ohio and Michigan absolutely hate each other.
Michigan’s coach refuses to call Ohio State by its
full name, and the OSU coach makes NFL talent
scouts cover up their franchises’ blue colors,
since blue is a “Michigan color”.

5. Notre Dame - USC
Both Notre Dame and USC are private schools,
steeped in their own unique traditions and a
national-level panache.

6. Texas - Oklahoma
Every time Texans utter the phrase
“Oklahoma”, it’s with nothing short of pure
contempt. At games, massive fights almost
always break out between both rival players
and fans.

7. Florida - Georgia
Every year for 100 years, Gators and Bulldogs have had
an annual game, leading to one of the greatest rivalries
in the SEC. Fans are separated in the Florida stadium,
so that fights don’t break out.

8. Oregon – Oregon State
The proximity of these two schools has served
to only amplify their rivalry. Their game
together, known as the “Civil War”, is the
seventh most-played college football game in
the US.

9. Clemson – South Carolina
This rivalry is the largest uninterrupted series
in the South, and the second-longest
uninterrupted FBS series.

10. Utah – BYU
What makes this rivalry so interesting is its religious
undertones: while Utah is run by the state, BYU is
operated by the Mormons. Once, after Utah had
beaten BYU, fans put up a sign in the BYU stadium
proclaiming, “where is your God now?”