Nerdlinger
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RE: Essential FBS Rivalries? (Poll #1)
(10-06-2017 03:51 PM)vandiver49 Wrote: (10-06-2017 03:42 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote: (10-06-2017 02:52 PM)vandiver49 Wrote: While mandatory, Neither Army or Navy consider the games versus the AFA essential.
They're mandatory? Like US law?
It's not a federal law, but it is implicit in the CINC trophy requirements.
To have played AFA every year since the early '70s, Army and Navy must care about the trophy, and thus their games with AFA. Navy in particular must care, now that 8 of their games are devoted to AAC opponents and they're still scheduling AFA. Army did the same during its time in C-USA. And AFA must care, especially since they've been in a conference so long but are willing to use up two OOC games every year to play schools on the Atlantic coast. So I think both rivalries with AFA qualify as essential, even if not especially heated.
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