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How to Keep a Revived Rivalry Alive
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How to Keep a Revived Rivalry Alive

Rodger joins Alex and Richard to talk about why rivalries fade for a *second* time.
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Subscriber show! Realignment killed off a lot of college football rivalries. Then the schools involved brought some of them back … only to let them wither again. Why does this happen, and are some of the ongoing changes to the sport encouraging or discouraging teams to schedule more of these games? Now that the Border War is back and the Backyard Brawl is about to play what might be its last game in a while (after a previous long pause), it’s a good time to try to figure it out. Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard for a discussion about it.

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