Worst Rivals
Alright, these are the programs that we hate. More specifically, though, these are the programs whose teams or fans just annoy the living hell out of us. This list is not ordered as a ranking of schools we collectively hate the most, mind you. This is a list of the schools that are just the absolute worst rivals. Like, they’re just terrible friggin’ rivals for us. My question is: Why are we even forced to be rivals with the top 3 teams on this list?
1) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
There are pathetic little brothers like Auburn to Alabama, Oklahoma State to OU, and Texas to Texas A&M. But Georgia Tech is just an insipid little brother. They’re the absolute worst kind of “rival” to have.
Georgia Tech sucks. And their fans know they suck. You get no real pleasure when you beat them, and you get massive grief if you lose to them (not that we’d know too much about that). Their entire program’s massive inferiority complex is matched only by Donald Trump’s obsessive need to compare hand sizes with every single person he comes into contact with. Tech fans are insufferable when they win, pathetic when they lose, and simply unbearable for the other 364 days of the year.
And not only that, Tech hasn’t had a multi-game winning streak over us since the 1989 and 1990 seasons. (1998-2000 doesn’t count, because Jasper Sanks was down in the ‘99 game, which means he didn’t fumble, which means we didn’t lose the game.)
Why do we even play these nerds anymore? Texas got to dump A&M after they switched conferences, and Kansas got to dump Mizzou for the same reason. (Same for Oklahoma/Nebraska, Colorado/Nebraska, and even Virginia/Maryland.) The Golden Tornado left the SEC in Nineteen Sixty Four. We’ve been in the same conference more recently with Tulane than we have been with the Engineers, but you don’t see the athletic department clamoring for an annual series with the Green Wave.
Georgia Tech is just the worst. The damn worst.
