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The strange enduring power of the college football rivalry

Conference realignment has turned the map of college football into something nearly unrecognizable, but the rivalries somehow survive. Michigan-Ohio State. Alabama-Auburn. Oklahoma-Texas. Army-Navy. These games have outlasted coaching changes, transfer portal chaos, and the arrival of name-image-likeness money that fundamentally changed what it means to be a college athlete. What makes rivalries resilient is that

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