And, regardless, the point I'm getting at it there are 100s of rivalries across the U.S. that have some little name, some names with a lot of history, some names that are actually pretty cool. I'm not that big of a fan of LSU and one of our old rivals fabricating a name for a football game, like the Apple Cup did, just to have a name for the game. But, as a marketing gimmick, I think its pretty interesting. For example, look at USC vs UCLA. They don't have a special name for the game. Yet, what if they decided to go the route Texas vs Texas A&M did in recent history, and come up with some little name and some little logo just to get more advertising dollars... IMO, its not a bad idea from a marketing/business standpoint... because I don't see how it hurts. But yes, if the student councils of LSU and Ole Miss are just trying to think of some name without planning to make a logo and marketing it with a corporate sponsor, I'm not a big fan of the idea. For example, Florida vs. Florida State is the "Sunshine Showdown," Clemson vs. South Carolina is the "Battle of the Palmetto State," Arizona vs. Arizona State is the "Duel in the Desert," Kansas vs. Kansas State is the "Sunflower Showdown," etc. Sure, those names are pretty gay, but no worse than "Apple Cup," "Bayou Classic," "Rocky Mountain Showdown," "Lone Star Showdown," etc. But at least in the latter case, they made a logo and got a corporate sponsor... and made their programs richer.
I don't know. To me, Ole Miss takes their rivalry with us very seriously (I've been to Oxford for the games, and I've never experienced tension with, say, the Alabama fanbase like what I experienced at Ole Miss with their fanbase... literally, at Ole Miss I'm talking about to the point of fist-fights constantly about to break out between LSU fans and Ole Miss fans). To me, it seems like Ole Miss always gets up to play us (like the whole throw-the-records-and-rankings thing out the window). Back in the Dinardo days, Ole Miss with Tommy Tuberville got us pretty good a couple times. Since then, as LSU has ascended to a perennial-national-mega-powerhouse-beast-juggernaut-program, Ole Miss is more like an upset that is always waiting to happen, an annual ambush. Last year they played us pretty close before we pulled away. Year before that, it pretty much took a miracle for us to beat them. It's like an old friend of mine says, "Ole Miss has our number." To me, that's just because they take the rivalry with us so seriously. How often do you hear an LSU fan say "Go/Geaux to Hell Ole Miss!!!"? But in Oxford, I've seen recent pictures of someone putting Christmas lights on their rooftop that say "Go to hell LSU". When I'm in Oxford, "Go to HELLLLLLLL LSU !!!" cries fill the sky. During the Ole Miss games at LSU, I pretty much never hear any "Go/Geaux to hell Ole Miss" cries. P.S. the "Go To Hell Bowl" would be an interesting name for the LSU/Ole Miss game.
you just explained why it's not a rivalry, though... because only 1 team takes it seriously... I do not have a problem with naming it. The more exposure, the better. I just would rather see an LSU/Auburn "Battle of the Tigers".
Right but just because one team gets to a level of greatness vis-a-vis the other team doesn't mean the rivalry is over. Look at "The Game," Ohio State v. Michigan. Over the last seven seasons, Ohio State has won six, Michigan has won one. Sure, it's lop-sided, but still a rivalry. Look at Texas v. Texas A&M. Over the last eight seasons, Texas has won six, A&M has won two. Sure, it's lop-sided, but still a rivalry. Look at the "Iron Bowl," Auburn v. Alabama. Auburn has won six straight. Lop-sided, but still a rivalry. Look at USC/ND. USC has won six straight. Lop-sided, but still a rivalry. As for the LSU/Ole Miss rivalry: During the 6 seasons from 1990 to 1996, LSU and Ole Miss were 3-3. During the 5 seasons from 1997 to 2001, Ole Miss beat us four times, we only beat them once. In the 6 seasons since then, we have beat them six times straight (by 1 point in 2002, by 3 points in 2003, by 3 points in 2004, blew them out in 2005, by 3 points in 2006 (OT), and last year, they had 466 total yards to our 396 total yards).
I've lived in Texas for the past 11 years, and I've never heard that game referred to as the Lone Star Showdown. And I hate the "Red River Rivalry" because it used to be the "Red River Shoot-out," which was catchier and easier to say, but I suppose it connoted "violence," and the name was recently changed. Now, everyone still calls Texas/OU the "Red River Shoot-out" because that name actually stuck. As for the Ole Miss rivalry--yes, they always play us tight, but I still don't think of it as a rivalry. The only year it ascended to that level was in '03 when the game was for the West. AU is our big rival in the West, and Florida is a huge rival in the East--because we play them every year, and the game is always a toss-up, and recently, one that always has national, not just conference, implications. Ole Miss is not relevant in that sort of context.
Because both teams give a chit about the "rivalry" Because both teams give a chit about the "rivalry" Because both fanbases are igno.... I mean Because both teams give a chit about the "rivalry" Because both teams give a chit about the "rivalry" Only Ole Piss cares about this rivalry. Maybe if they paid attention to the other conference games on the schedule, they wouldn't be in a 45 year drought of conference titles. But they've run out of Mannings, so the drought will likely continue for a while. Bama, Florida, Auburn, possibly Arky, and even Toolame are bigger blips on LSU's "rivalry" radar than Ole Piss is.
Can we not have a rivalry with everyone on schedule? Such that there is no confusion with any non-rivals that we even care. Consider us an equal opportunity rivalry... :tigereye:
Not an official marketing name or sponsor but we do refer to it as the Crosstown Showdown like lots of other schools. Of course there's always the Gauntlet Trophy. :hihi: See above answer. The fans mostly hate it.
cmon they could play "Louisiana woman, Mississippi Man" and get, i dont know, Brittney and Farve to sing it. who sang that originally anyway? loretta and conway? are they alive?
