Ted Miller of ESPN.com’s Pac-10 blog writes in a mailbag today that the football rivalry between the University of Washington and the University of Oregon is the “most underrated rivalry in the nation”.
↵↵↵As for finding ways to market other rivalries, I agree, particularly with Oregon-Washington. To me, that is the most underrated rivalry in the nation, though it lost some luster when the Huskies went into the toilet from 2004-2008. But all you have to do to get a sense for the bitterness is to read the comments section from the Pac-10 blog, where a story about Stanford’s special teams can degenerate into barb trading between Ducks and Huskies.
↵The Columbia River Calamity? Feel free to provide your own ideas.
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After reading this post from earlier today, it’s hard to argue with Miller’s point.