Who is the best rival in football?

The granddaddy of all college football rivalries is the University of Michigan vs. Ohio State University. These two midwestern Big Ten powerhouses have been at it since 1897, with the Wolverines and Buckeyes meeting for "The Game" around Thanksgiving weekend for over a century.
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What is the greatest NFL football rivalry?

The rivalry is the second-oldest of the NFC East. It has been called the greatest rivalry in NFL history. The Giants and Eagles have met five times in the playoffs, with the Eagles leading 3–2. The Giants won in 1981 and 2000, and the Eagles won in 2006 and 2008.
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What is the best rivalry ever?

10 Great Sports Rivalries
  • Green Bay Packers versus Chicago Bears. ...
  • Los Angeles Lakers versus Boston Celtics. ...
  • Joe Frazier versus Muhammad Ali. ...
  • Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees. ...
  • Ohio State versus Michigan. ...
  • Duke versus North Carolina. ...
  • Chris Evert versus Martina Navratilova. ...
  • Arnold Palmer versus Jack Nicklaus.
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Who is the biggest rivalry in football 2022?

England-USMNT and Germany-Spain are among the biggest matchups of the 2022 tournament.
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Who has the longest football rivalry?

Yale upset No. 18 Princeton 51-14 in 2019. The Yale-Princeton rivalry is the oldest in college football, dating back to 1873. Yale and Princeton dominated the college football scene when this rivalry began, with Yale claiming 13 outright national titles and Princeton claiming eight between 1869 and 1894.
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What is the oldest rivalry in NFL?

Green Bay Packers VS Chicago Bears

Known as "the oldest rivalry in the NFL," there is no team that has more history than these two. To understand why it is considered a historic rivalry, you have to go back to 1921.
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Who is Dallas Cowboys greatest rival?

Many believe the Philadelphia Eagles are the true rival of the Cowboys, as they have faced each other 125 times and are both in the NFC East. Others believe that the greatest enemy Dallas has is the Green Bay Packers, due to the historic matchups between the two.
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What is the longest rivalry in sports?

It is one of cricket's curiosities that the oldest international rivalry is not, as many assume, England against Australia. That started in 1877, some 33 years after a side representing USA met a team from Canada at Bloomingdale Park in Manhattan.
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What is the number 1 sports rivalry?

1. New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox. As far as American pro sports are concerned, this is the rivalry. Dating back to 1901, the Yankees and Red Sox have played 2,320 times.
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Who are man US biggest rivals?

Who is Manchester United's biggest rival? Liverpool FC has always been Manchester United's main rival. The proximity between the two cities and the long industrial story has helped to exacerbate the hate between the fanbases over the years.
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What are the 3 oldest NFL teams?

Two charter members, the Chicago Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals) and the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears), are still in existence. The Green Bay Packers franchise, founded in 1919, is the oldest team not to change locations, but did not begin league play until 1921.
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What is the oldest rivalry?

If you're wondering, the oldest rivalry in college football belongs to Lafayette and Lehigh, who have met a whopping 151 times. The other oldest SEC rivalries not on the top 10 FBS list include Ole Miss/Mississippi State (112 meetings), Tennessee/Kentucky (111) and Tennessee/Vanderbilt (110).
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What is biggest college football rivalry?

Here are the top rivalries in college football:
  • Pittsburgh-West Virginia. (Photo: Michael Longo, USA TODAY Sports) ...
  • Oklahoma-Oklahoma State. (Photo: Parker Thune, 247Sports) ...
  • USC-UCLA. (Photo: Gary A. ...
  • Clemson-South Carolina. ...
  • Ole Miss-Mississippi State. ...
  • Georgia-Florida. ...
  • USC-Notre Dame. ...
  • Oklahoma-Texas.
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Who is Eagles biggest rival?

The New York Giants are the Eagles' biggest rivals.

The two teams have faced off a total of 183 times in their regular season histories, with the Eagles leading the head-to-head matchup 93-88-2. The Eagles and Giants have also faced off in the postseason five times, with the Eagles also leading that series 3-2.
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Who has the most wins in NFL history?

Their NFC North divisional rivals, the Green Bay Packers have recorded the most wins (790) in NFL history. The league's other still-active charter member, the Arizona Cardinals, have recorded the most regular season losses (790), through the end of the 2022 season.
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What is the biggest NFL stadium?

MetLife Stadium is the largest NFL stadium with a standard capacity of 82,500. Soldier Field is the smallest NFL stadium with a standard capacity of 61,500.
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  • There are 30 stadiums in the NFL.
  • Three stadiums have a base capacity of at least 80,000.
  • Soldier Field is the smallest NFL stadium.
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Who beats Alabama the most?

Not only do the Longhorns have a winning record against the Crimson Tide, they have the best record of any team that has faced Alabama more than once outside of Rice (3-0). Texas is 7-1 in the series.
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Who is LSU biggest rival?

Since 1981, Alabama has gone 7–12 in games played in Alabama while LSU has gone 4–17–1 in games played in Louisiana. There have been five overtime games in total: two in Tuscaloosa (2005, 2011) and three in Baton Rouge (2008, 2014, 2022).
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Who is Tennessee biggest rival?

The Vols' three main rivalries include the Alabama Crimson Tide (Third Saturday in October), Florida Gators , and Vanderbilt Commodores. Tennessee also has a long and important rivalry with the Kentucky Wildcats.
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What are the 3 types of rivalry?

In his 1902 Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, James Mark Baldwin defined three main types of rivalry:
  • biological rivalry,
  • personal or conscious rivalry,
  • commercial and industrial rivalry.
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Who is Alabama's oldest rivalry?

One of the most historic rivalries in not only the SEC, but in all of college football, the Alabama-Tennessee game has pitted the two traditional powerhouses against one another since 1901. Alabama commands a 51-38-7 all-time lead in the series.
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What is the oldest football trophy game?

The Little Brown Jug is the most regularly exchanged rivalry trophy in college football, the oldest trophy game in FBS college football, and the second oldest rivalry trophy overall, next to the 1899 Territorial Cup (which did not become a travelling/exchange trophy until 2001), contested between Arizona and Arizona ...
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