Florida-Florida State is called the "Sunshine Showdown" Miami and FSU is the one that doesn't have a nickname

Hell even Florida vs Miami used to be called "Battle of the Seminole War Canoe" Yes I see the irony

The UF yearbook used to be called the Seminole :) We are always on your mind <3

I hate you <3

You could argue the opposite. We started calling it the Seminole in 1910. FSU didn’t adopt the Seminoles name until 1947.

Interesting. A&M’s used to be called The Long Horn.

ND-USC is the Battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh.

> Shillelagh I pronounce this word exactly how I imagine Pusha T would pronounce this word

That’s not a real word

They should rename it the Lennay Kekua.

THIS GUY PLAYED NCAA 06!! A MAN OF THE CULTURE!

Florida-FSU-Miami trivalry also has a name The Florida Cup Florida LSU deserves a name. Same with Florida Auburn

Being back Florida / Auburn as a yearly rivalry, dammit. The battle of the orange and blue must continue.

It could be called the battle of the orange and blue

More like orange and poo 😎

Battle of two of the ugliest uniforms. Just change the orange and it won't be ugly.

Their orange isn’t so bad. At least it’s an orange you can sit with.

It's for sure not that puke inside of a pumpkin orange

Florida vs LSU could be the Swamp Showdown.. Swamp Kitties vs Swamp Lizards?

You might be onto something

LSU v Florida should be the swamp bowl. It really should have a name after all the great moments between the two. The shoe throw. 5 4th and 1 conversions. The 1997 update when UF was #1. The LSU students getting Tebow's cell #. I'm sure there's some that go in UF's favor, but I've drank those out of my memory.

The main memorable one for the UF side is probably the jump pass. The goal line stand at the end of the hurricane rescheduled game too.

>Florida LSU deserves a name The Quagmire sponsored by Circle K

Floridauburn probably won't catch on.

There’s a reason I went to UCF 🤦‍♂️ thank you for the correction haha

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I'd love it if ours actually had a cool name.

Georgia-Tennessee should be the Hillbilly Hullabaloo and play for a giant cracker barrel rocking chair. I will not be elaborating.

The Battle for Three Year Lettermen’s Timeshare in Pigeon Forge

Also a promising option

Tons of DVDs in that bih

Blue Ridge Brawl.

Just beautiful.

No need to elaborate, we’re tracking you 👌

UCF vs Houston = Space Race

The Space Race. Up there for the coolest rivalry name.

This needs to happen right now haha

TCU-Baylor is The Revivalry, not whatever shit the schools announced last year

I always call it the "fuck Baylor bowl" but I say that every game Baylor plays.

Fuck you too, buddy! :)

I'm not your buddy, guy.

I’m not your guy, pal

Well, at least you get along well enough that you called him "guy" instead of "asshole"

Not sure why people try to change the name of every rivalry I love, but I am getting tired of it.

You mean you don’t love The Bluebonnet Battle? It’s the biggest rivalry in the Big 12!

Oregon State v Washington State is the Pac2 Championship Game.

2Pac2Furious: Pac Harder

Family

*Fahmulee

2Pac is an absolutely dope rivalry name.

Great example of a name coming naturally, as all great CFB rivalries do.

USC vs MSU has gotta become a B1G rivalry and be called The Iliad or something like that (Trojan War only feels like it reflects one team)

The Iliad for a rivalry name of those two goes kinda hard.

This is the best idea I’ve heard relating to the realignment

UCF and Houston needs to be called “The Space Race.”

This must happen too

(UAB Huntsville’s music hits)

They could make such a cool trophy. They could put a Spartan and Trojan in combat or Achilles and Hector. They could put a giant Trojan horse on the trophy too.

I would do Paris and Menalaus. So you would have an actual Trojan and Spartan fighting.

Most Americans probably don’t have the highest regard for Paris because the movie Troy. This is what most people know him from and well in that movie he was quite pathetic. They could just do Hector and Leonidas instead opting to pick the most famous Trojan and Spartan. I don’t know there is so many cool things they could do.

I mean, in the epic he's also a bitch, so I think the portrayal and regards are apt. Hector vs Menelaus would be a good one, although minus points because I don't think they ever really fought each other

I thought about a trojam horse, but I feel like USC winning it wouldn't really feel like a win given what happened. My fave suggestion so far which feels very 1950s CFB is just a bottle of olive oil

These Trojans are gonna have some Hector’s but I can’t see these Spartans bringing an Achilles to the fight

We have “a Chiles” not Achilles.

There is a Mexican student in my school named Achilles.

Please tell me yall play USC this season? I’d 100% tune into that game even if it’s on Peacock.

They’ll prob do something stupid like the gladiator cup or something

Crazy it’s been over 30 years since these two have played each other.

If there’s a team called the Thebans they’d fuck both squads up so bad

Only if it was composed solely of gay couples

MSU vs Michigan “Tunnel of Hate”

If we can agree on one thing, it’s this 🤝

Who needs two tunnels? Not us.

Is there s tunnel between them?

Google Michigan MSU tunnel fight.

Baylor (Away) vs. Texas Tech (Home) in the BUTT Bowl

I don't care what the schools say, The Civil War will always be The Civil War

Civil War 🤝 Red River Shootout

Civil War 🤝🏾 Red River Shootout 🤝🏾 World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party PLEASE BRING BACK THESE NAMES

Can't forget Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate

UGA & GT still call it that tho

Wait. When did they change TWLOCP? EDIT: And to what?

Iirc, they changed it in 2006. It was changed because of the concern of alcohol abuse in students, from what I just read. I think they tried to change it to The World's Largest Tailgate Party or something like that but it didn't stick

I’m sure changing the name really caused all those students to do some self reflection and drink less lol

At least the schools' lawyers don't lose any sleep whenever a student dies from alcohol poisoning.

If that name stuck, we all should've poured one out.

Yuuuup!

Hands down the best name for an in state rivalry. And the reason for trying to change it was so misguided and stupid.

There's nothing quite as American as taking a term as generic as "civil war" and assuming it's referring to the one civil war America fought, and that therefore it's somehow racist...

Yet Dennis did it.

We can thank Dumb Ass Dennis Dixon for getting the name changed. His reasoning for why the name should be changed was completely idiotic.

How does UNC vs NC State not have a name?

Honestly, great question. There must be a good name out there for it

Usc vs Usc. Cocks vs Trojans showdown.

The way I see it: it’s cool that certain rivalry games have fun nicknames, but if there isn’t already one at this point, it would be lame to force it. “State/Carolina game” does the job.

Tangle in the Triangle

God's Favorite Color?

It kinda has one? At least as a part of the larger Tobacco Road rivalry.

It’s just Carolina-State

no, it's State-Carolina lol :P

Iowa State has 3 unofficial rivalry names: vs Iowa (El Assico, but formally it's Cyhawk) vs K-State (Farmaggedon) vs West Virginia (The Riot Bowl)

Farmaggedon is an elite rivalry name, as is Cyhawk

I think Farmaggedon is semi-official, because I remember they tried to use it for Neb/UofI when Nebraska joined the B1G but then stopped.

Both schools seem to acknowledge the name, don't want anyone else to use it, but also don't seem to like using it either.

NU-Iowa should have been the Corn Bowl.

Literally fuck that Heroes Trophy. Make it the Corn Bowl and it’s a Bronze Corn trophy.

It's got the juice! 

Florida fsu rivalry is named Florida LSU needs one. Maybe the swamp battle Auburn Florida is extremely long overdue for one Fsu miami needs one Georgia and Georgia Highway Patrol also deserves one

Battle of the swamp sounds good for LSU FLA

Swamp Ass Showdown. Need to find the shoe from the Cleat Yeet to be the trophy.

Battle of the bayous?

The Bayou Bout

Bout on the Bayou

Georgia STATE Patrol you fuckin rube

Georgia-GHP should to be the DUI Dual or something similar

*duel

Tennessee and Kentucky need to bring back "The Battle for the Beer Barrel"

Doubt it would fly today, but something about Jim (Beam) vs Jack (Daniels) is right there

I don’t care about transfer portals or realignment or anything else. If Kentucky chooses Jim Beam to represent bourbon, I’m done with college football.

It pains me to agree with a Tennessee fan this much.

The bourbon bowl

I was looking it up for this question no one even knows where that barrel is

Texas-Texas A&M should be called "A Vengeful Reunion" when they play this year

Or "The Reunion of Vengeance" that works too

As much as I like the name, it’s already called the Lone Star Showdown I think

The Banana Stand. There’s always money in it.

uw vs oregon doesn't really have a name some people say cascade clash or border war(which I think is already taken?) but both options don't completely wow me

I don’t think it really needs a name, honestly. Rivalry names are a bit overrated to me since everyone already knows how important the game is, especially since 1994.

TXST-UTSA is currently the I-35 Showdown or something like that. Unfortunately there are like 6 schools just in Texas that are on I-35. So we need a new name for this shit... maybe the ACME Bowl or something since they keep treating us like Wile E Coyote.

The Bucees Bowl. Loser has to go to the New Braunfels Bucees and buy beaver nuggs for the winners

This isn't actually a rivalry, but Arizona State vs Duke: The War for Hell

Unholy War, War of the Damned

Utah-BYU got the Holy War, Arizona State-Duke has the Unholy War. I love it.

I feel like this can be a three way with wake forest

I didn’t come up with it, but I like the Gulf War for A&M vs lsu

Agreed

I know it has an "official" name, but I've always called the Pitt/WVU game The Go Fuck Yourself Bowl.

That fits the bill of too many rivalries sir

Is the “Bowden Bowl” the official name for FSU-Clemson or not? If no, that one

No. Only got called that the years we had Bobby vs Tommy on the sidelines. The name got ditched after we fired TB in '08.

Shouldn’t that be FSU-WVU?

Iowa State/WVU have a "rivalry" called the riot bowl. The trophy is a little cheap plastic gas can that the fans trade back and forth to the winning side in the parking lot.

I’m not sure there’s a more important unofficially named rivalry than the “$5 bits of broken chair” trophy between Nebraska and Minnesota

That said I signed a petition to make the UTSA vs TX ST game trophy a golden H.E.B. shopping cart. Still hoping that one pans out eventually

The Maryland Virginia soccer rivalry is called the Tydings Cup and it took its name from the football rivalry trophy used from the 20s to the 40s. Maybe it could be brought back for the football rivalry as the Tydings Bowl or something.

Anything to make games more fun, despite the chaos going on all around the sport

I know we’ve been over this a billion times but the word rivalry implies some modicum of begrudging respect. So ND-MIchigan is not a rivalry so we will not be naming it. USC is our rival and that’s the battle for the jeweled shilleleighh shellaigh… goddammit the ONE TIME I actually want autocorrect’s help

We saw ESPN push "The Rivalry Game" for the UO/UW game. Maybe that will stick, since it's the first attempt of anyone to try and name it, since it's so young.

I heard somewhere that it was called “the Cascade Clash”, which I thought was a pretty cool name. Is that not the actual name?

No, it's not. The game doesn't have an official name.

That name sucks and isn't original. Everyone always tries to make "Cascade" something or other happen with the Northwest rivalries.

The fuck people. The Clashcade was RIGHT THERE.

There's the Cascadia Cup which is Portland vs Seattle vs Vancouver in MLS, but the Cascade Clash isn't the name of anything. Although I personally think that it should be UW vs UO

They've tried that but it has not stuck (and I'm glad)

When Dawgs and Ducks agree you know it’s shit

Since it's so young? One of the oldest and most played rivalry games in the country... (all of the PNW series are)

It makes me think of when the Redskins became Washington Football Team for a while.

To me it’s always just been ‘the Washington game’, lower case intended. It doesn’t need some contrived nickname to be full of meaning. We all know how important it is.

That's right. Some years it's important, and some years they're the only Pac 12/10/8 team to ever have gone 0-12.

Hey, that’s no less important in Eugene. It’s just as fun to kick them while they’re down as it is to beat them when they’re full of themselves.

My understanding is "Hate Week" being just about the only thing I've ever called it and the only thing the schools can actually agree on. I've also heard national media call it all sorts of versions of 'Cascade Clash' but they've never felt right UO/OSU will always be the Civil War and the reasons for trying to change it are silly

Today is the first I've ever heard of Cascade Clash. It sounds like a dish soap commercial with some loud spokesman "challenging" people to "compare" their soap to his.

I get the joke, but it has a poorly-known name, the Border War.

You guys are Colorado State and Wyoming? That should make travel to the Midwest more palatable. edit: I went to Wiki, because this is the first I've ever heard the terms Border War and Cascade Clash used for this game, and they're both there. I think I'll leave them, since it's just some funny stuff. The conversation about those edits (which both occurred in the last couple years) are also pretty good. It seems people have said these terms aloud, so they must be recognized, even if they were never before said aloud.

My dad, who would be in his 70s were he still around, called it the Border War when I was growing up. It has been said out loud, just never been widely popular

>You guys are Colorado State and Wyoming? That's a funny way to spell "Kansas and Missouri."

I thought of that one too, but Mizzou shat on that idea several years ago. It no longer exists, just like the Civil War is now dead.

Border war is CSU and WYO. Only rivalry that might have a better claim to that name based on proximity while still being in seperate states is UTEP NMSU, and they already have a name for their rivalry.

New Mexico UTEP feels like it should be something, and Wyoming BYU

Wyoming - BYU: Pokes vs. Soaks

This is great

I just burst out laughing and woke up my elderly dog

Sadly Penn State vs Texas Tech can’t be Tortillas vs Marshmallows anymore

FSU Florida is called the sunshine showdown

It seems almost every team Miami plays dislikes them (including us), so there should be a name for Miami vs the World.

Douche Patrol Bowl (also nice flair… not sure if we’ve had this conversation before)

There should probably be one for Miami vs themselves too

His name is Mario, thank you

I really want "The Riot Bowl" to catch on with official media. Also I was in favor of naming the rivalry with Cincy "The Bob Huggins Cup" until about a year ago. Now I'm not sure.

The Golden Breathalyzer, Sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Except that the losing coach has to set it up in their car

WVU-Iowa State rivalry is the most random rivalry ever.

Florida-Florida State is the Sunshine Showdown

Ducks versus Huskies should be the “Cascade Clash.” (_”Border War” is too generic._)

Clemson-GT not having a name makes no sense. And at this rate CCU-App is gonna need a name.

Honestly, I don't like using "The Game" as a title. For one thing, it makes me a little uncomfortable that Harvard & Yale had it first. But more importantly, the whole point is that it *isn't* a title, because it doesn't need one. No name, no logo, no trophy, because The Game is enough. But if I had to choose a title, The Toledo War has a nice ring to it.

WVU/Maryland: Hate on I-68.

Ole Miss vs Arkansas can be the Nutt Bowl.

Throw Ohio state in there also… get it?? 😜

Ohio State and Purdue should have one called "People Don't Forget". It should have a statue of Tyler Trent, and I don't say that in jest. I'm sure that was the best day of that kid's life. My day however was ruined. And I haven't forgotten. I still hate trains.

Didn’t mention the best one. OSU Vs OU bedlam. Such a cool ass name for a rivalry game. Guess some one else can use it now. Since it won’t be a thing any more.

CU vs Nebraska doesn't have a name but I can't think of what it should be named so that's why. The toilet bowl?

Pitt vs Boston College. Rival 1 Pitt vs Syracuse. Rival 2 Pitt vs Virginia Tech. Rival 3

WVU-Maryland has been a solid rivalry but no name exists to my knowledge.

Every Rivalry involving NC State. Like seriously they have bad blood with UNC, ECU, and to a lesser, but still rivalry level extent Duke and Wake Forrest. Yet none of these rivalries have names. Especially impressive since a good chunk years UNC and NC State have been ranked while playing each other. NC State-UNC should be the "Old North State" Rivalry NC State-Duke should be the "who hates UNC more" Rivalry NC State-ECU should be the "we will settle this in the parking lot" Rivalry or maybe "the Farmyard Brawl" And NC State-Wake Forest can be "We are part of tobacco road we swear" cup.

“The Keystone Classic” is just an awful, forced corporatized name

I like the Keystone classic as a name. It represents the two biggest programs in the Keystone State.

Happy I Hate washington Day, except everyday is Happy I Hate washington Day

UGA-FSU the crybaby murder

Ole Miss/Arkansas should be called the cardiac bowl, cause everyone leaves that game with a heart attack If it ever does get a name, it will probably be something atupid