I was living in San Diego, way back in the day, when the Marshall Faulk team bolted out to a 28 point lead in the Murph, only to see BYU come back and tie it. Although painful, it was pretty clear, that day forward, that SDSU could compete with them, ups and downs of each program aside.

(11-16-2012 05:21 PM)SleepingGiantsFan Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 01:50 PM)EDLUVAR Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 01:45 PM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 01:41 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Excerpt:

...with no true existing rivalries among the incoming schools with current membership outside of South Florida and Central Florida...

No true existing rivalries other than USF-UCF? Uh, duh, what about Memphis-Louisville and Memphis-Cincinnati?

I love reporters that do their research

By the way, doesn't BYU have rivalries with SDSU and Boise State?

They play but are not "rivals" BYU's rivals are Utah and Utah Stae. Utah has cancelled a few of the upcoming games with BYU after getting into the PAC however.

Let's be clear. You're referring to BYU and Boise.

SDSU and BYU have most definitely been rivals in hoops since along with UNLV we've had the best three basketball programs in the MWC since its origin. In football it's less so since BYU has been so dominant but there have nevertheless been 33 games between the schools and the last one in Provostan two years ago got really ugly. That was the game in which BYU's tailback fumbled and the officials didn't see it but everybody was sure would be overturned. However, the head official was never shown the best replay shot and it was BYU's film room guys who didn't show it to them. BYU then drove down the field for the winning TD.

Was approaching it from a football standpoint since that is what BYU would be bringing to the table. No doubt that SDSU and BYU were basketball rivals being 2 of the best teams in the MWC at that sport.

(11-16-2012 04:50 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I'm going to have to side with KnightLight on this one-- and I attended UC back in early 90s when we were both in the Great Midwest Conference and one year when we were both in C-USA. We had a basketball feud going on at the time, but the football game was not even close to a rivarly game. Back in those days UC's rival was Louisville and Miami(OH).

If I am being honest, a considerable number of our football fanbase has jumped on in the last decade or less. They don't see Memphis as a rival for UC in any capacity. That's not to say that it can't potentially happen, but it will take a little time for that to bloom.

I went to UC betwwen 1986=1991 and have followed the football team since this time. I call the game with Memphis a rivalry, but this is probably an overstatement. The fans did not necessarily get jacked about the game, rather, it was one of the most competitive games on our schedule. During this time period Cincy played comparable games with Memphis, Houston, UAB, Tulane, and Louisville. There was not alot of banter between the fan groups, but we played exciting close football games.

Very few BYU fans would consider anyone but Utah a rival in either major sport. There's a lot of history with schools like SDSU, but the Utah rivalry is so intense that it leaves little room for anything else.

(11-16-2012 03:25 PM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 02:32 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  Once Cinci left CUSA for the Big East...there's a very good reason why they never scheduled Memphis in football....because it was never a football rivalry to begin with.

Well we played 30 times, dating back to 1966. That ought to count for something.

Sure...means you played 30 games....doesn't make those games RIVALRY games.

Heck...some teams have played others over 50, 60, 70 plus times...doesn't make them rivalry games.

I was a UC student in the mid-90's....Hoops was HUGE at UC then, football not so much. I considered memphis/UofL/XU our big hoops rivalries. Football was UofL/MiamiOH and I didn't see Memphis as a big football rivalry, but that may have been because although I went to the football games, football was something you did then to pass the time until until hoops season started.

I'm happy to get back on the hardwood vs Memphis and who knows, football vs Memphis may develop into something big too.

It just takes a few big games...we had zero with Pitt before joining the BE and although we didn't have enough time to develop into true rivals, we had two season ending games vs Pitt that basically decided the BE champ (2008 @UC) and the famous 2009 game @Pitt. UC won both!!! Woohoo! But I digress...point is, you could see UC/Pitt potentially developing into something.

(11-16-2012 03:10 PM)MechaKnight Wrote:  Does Temple have a football rivalry with Rutgers?

Rutgers and Temple played every year from 1977 to 2004, and have met something like 36 times overall, if I recall correctly. They have technically been rivals, but it never caught fire with casual fans because both teams were up and down in the 1980s, struggled in the 1990s, and went in two different directions in the early 2000s. Of course the fans from certain internet sites definitely know how to kindle the flames of rivalry between the two schools.

(11-16-2012 02:32 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 02:30 PM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 01:55 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  Memphis/Cinci has never been a big football rivalry.

UC and UL, however, is.

That's why I didn't bold it....and just laughed at the notion of Cinci/Memphis was ever a football rivalry.

Once Cinci left CUSA for the Big East...there's a very good reason why they never scheduled Memphis in football....because it was never a football rivalry to begin with.

I'm pretty amused by a UCF fan trying to speak for the Memphis and Cincinnati fan bases.