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Quote: Originally Posted by prowler

I completely understand the intended purpose of protected rivals; what I was saying is with it in place it should force TB squads to have at least one rival that actually counts. The past two years you could replace Auburn to get Alabama as a rival but it was purely cosmetic. Rivalry records stayed blank for TB squads and using the pitch on recruits was counterproductive. As of right now we don't know if that issue has been fixed and if it hasn't, the only way for a TB squad to get an actual working rival is by manipulating protected rivals.

Yea, I see what you mean, but I don't think the game is going to treat it as a rivalry. It's like in the SEC, MSU plays Kentucky every year. I know quite a few people that went to MSU and Kentucky was not seen as a rivalry game by any means. Protected rivalries is a bad description. It's just a protected game, that in some cases, may be a rivalry like Tennessee and Alabama. It wouldn't help me in any case because all of my TB teams are going to be in conferences without divisions; no protected rivalries.