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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 376881, member: 628"]
College football rivalries tend to be a mixture of meaning and proximity.  The great one's tend to involved teams that play meaningful games, and are near enough each other to involve some degree of regular fan interaction.  
 
All the great in-state or border-state rivalries tend to follow this formula: Alabama-Auburn, Ohio State-Michigan, etc.  There are exceptions, USC-ND for example, but those are rare.  
 
There's also a difference between a "blood rival" and some degree less than that.  The difference between circle the calendar rival, and oh-look-we-play-them-this-week rival.  There's also rivalries that emerge due to on-field performance, such as SU-VaTech, but those are prone to fading the moment one or both of the programs aren't as successful and the meaningfulness of games decreases.
 
In our case, for football I suppose the last time we had a real rival was Colgate.  Penn State may have been that, but I'm not sure PSU cared about our series nearly as much as we did.  Unfortunately had circumstances been different, had there been a true eastern football league, SU-PSU would have certainly grown into a top-tier rivalry in the 90s.  
 
If by some great twist of fate SU and any one of Pitt, BC and/or Maryland became perennial top 15-ish teams then we'd develop a good rivalry.  There's enough proximity to make it work.
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