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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 4256722, member: 9403"] Oregon-Stanford and Oregon-OSU have been pretty good for much of the past 5-6 years. (For whatever reason, Tara has tended to have Rueck's number even when their teams are equally good. It feels like Stanford has beaten OSU by <5 points about 12 times since Rueck took over). Stanford-Tennessee has been pretty good for much of the past two decades as well, with many home and aways. I've personally also enjoyed our rivalries with Baylor, Notre Dame, and Louisville, because it's felt like both teams have won meaningfully games when it counts, so there's a lot history at stake. But those have mostly been post-season tilts rather than home and aways. The main problem with developing rivalries is that if the participants don't act like they're dying to kill the other team, it's hard to maintain the fuego to fuel it. Geno and Pat really didn't like each other. Tara likes basically everyone, and as Haley Jones recently said, the monkey on our team's back is always that "we're not just the nice girls from Stanford." I mean really, who watches Haley Jones and thinks, "I want to kill her!" [/QUOTE]