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Old 12-06-2010, 11:17 AM   #7
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Re: Anybody Made their own Rivalry?

I have a big-time Tulane/Georgia Tech rivalry going. These two schools used to play in the SEC together from the 30s all the way into the early to mid 60s. I've since moved back into the SEC for Year 5.

I upset them in year 2 when they were ranked high and I was unranked and in that same year they won a couple of close recruiting battles against me for a 4 star RB and CB who now start for them in year 5. So that started to get things going.

After my upset win in the final weekend, we both were invited to the Champs Sports Bowl for a rare college football grudge match, which they won 25-17.

We then played in the season opener the following season, making it 3 straight games against them. Once again, they won a close battle, this time 31-25.

They then beat us in Year 4 in another close game 39-34 via a last second TD, a game where I blew two leads in the final 1:25.

I am set to play them in the final regular season game of Year 5 next with a possible BCS bowl appearance on the line for my #15 ranked Green Wave. They are #11.

Making the rivalry even sweeter is that after year 1, I was frustrated with how my defense was playing so I came up with the story line of "firing my DC" and I hired a personal friend of mine, Charles Kelly to run my defense using the "Multiple D" defensive package he coaches. Kelly is currently the secondary coach at GT. I scheduled GT in year 2 of my dynasty, not because of this, but because Tulane is scheduled to play GT in real life next season. Kelly "coaching" against his former team was not planned, it just happened that way.

Even adding more intrigue, after Year 3 of my dynasty, I was offered the head coaching job at GT, which I obviously turned down.

Lastly, I have recruited very well in Georgia and the state is now a Tulane pipeline.

So as you can see, this rivalry has pretty much naturally evolved over the course of the dynasty.
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