Counting Down The Top 30 Sports Rivalries Of All Time

#25. Oregon-Oregon State (College Football):

This affair is nicknamed The Civil War. The schools are both in the Pac-12 North Division and less than 50 miles apart in the Willamette Valley. They first met in 1894 and the series rotates between OSU’s home in Corvallis and Oregon’s campus in Eugene. The men’s and women’s basketball games are also billed as The Civil War.

#24. Harvard-Yale (College Football):

These Ivy League institutions compete for students, professors and in one of college football’s longest-standing rivalries in what is known simply as “The Game.” First played in 1875.

In 1968, Harvard made up a 29-13 deficit in the final two games, leading to one of the great newspaper headlines: Harvard beats Yale, 29-29.

#23. Georgia-Florida (College Football):

Billed as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, the game is played at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. So intense is the rivalry between these SEC squads that Georgia is now complaining that its team has to fly to the site but the Gators can take a bus.