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[QUOTE="otisco, post: 437498, member: 391"]
UT-A&M is no doubt one of the great rivalries done in by realignment. I'd argue, though, that Kansas-Missouri is the biggest, longest most passionate rivalry that even those of us East of the Mississippi will no longer get to observe. The Border War, as it was known, is rooted in the Civil War. The football series was the second or third longest played rivalry ever, dating back to 1890 I believe. Some 120 games played annually, the final one being last year at Arrowhead Stadium where the annual game was moved a few years ago. The basketball series was also a long and heated one. The schools even concocted a scoring system by which to calculate which school won the overall rivalry each year, with certain agreed upon values for football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, etc., the winner taking the point for winning the matchup.  Now that is true rivalry.

It is a crying shame that rivalries like this are an afterthought in realignment. Money, power, TV rights are killing the essence of college athletics.
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