College football Rivalry Week – The ultimate guide to the best historical moments

It’s finally here, the week that hate — the clean, old-fashioned kind, mind you — is in fashion.

If you’ve ever been accused of firing a contractor because he wore a rival’s shirt to your house, this is your time. Put the flag up outside your house. Get the group texts fired up. Add a little school spirit to your Zoom background for your next meeting.

It’s Rivalry Week!

To celebrate, our reporters recap the excessive celebrations, tree desecrations and trash-can-fueled altercations from some of college football’s greatest games. Turn the fight song up and get the memes loaded up in your camera roll. Here we go.

Jump to a rivalry:
Ole Miss-Miss. State | UCF-USF | Wazzu-Washington | UNC-NC State
Ohio State-Michigan | OU-Oklahoma State | Alabama-Auburn
Georgia-Georgia Tech | Oregon-Oregon State | Texas A&M-LSU
Florida State-Florida | Kentucky-Louisville | Virginia-Virginia Tech
Clemson-South Carolina | Arizona-Arizona State

Thursday

Better known as: Egg Bowl
This year’s game: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. (all times Eastern), ESPN & ESPN App
All-time record: 63-46-6 (according to Ole Miss); 63-47-6 (according to Miss. State)
Current streak: Ole Miss, 1

Wildest on-field moment: Where do you start? Most recently, there was Ole Miss wide receiver Elijah Moore dropping to all fours in the end zone, lifting his leg and pretending to urinate like a dog in the 2019 Egg Bowl. His actions drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The Rebels missed the ensuing 35-yard extra point attempt and lost 21-20 to the Bulldogs. Three days later, Ole Miss fired coach Matt Luke, which precipitated the hiring of Lane Kiffin. Mississippi State coach Joe Moorhead was probably under more pressure coming into that game. There was a feeling, fair or not, that he was an odd fit in Starkville after previous coaching stops at Penn State, Fordham and Connecticut, among other non-Southern schools. Moorhead famously said that Thanksgiving night after the game, “This is my team, this is my school, this is my…