In this season of bowl game overload, I thought it might be fun to dust it off this email discussion from 17-18 years ago about mythical college conferences and bowls. We had fun coming up with the list below.

Note that Eckerd Drugs no longer exists as a brand name, The Polytechnic Institute is now part of NYU, and Parliament's own AlmadenMike is a proud Rose-Hulman parent (and if they don't play Harvey Mudd in anything, it seems like they should).

On a more personal note, of the 18 or so emails on that original discussion, I believe the only address that still works is mine. One of the 18 was a compuserve address; as I recall, CompuServe was one of the original general-public ISPs and charged by the hour (!) for access.

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NOTES ON COLLEGE SPORTS

Brand Name Conference:
Colgate
Converse
Eckerd
Stetson
CW Post

Crossword Conference:
Four-letter Division:: Five-letter Division
Duke :: Clark
Elon :: Drake
Nova :: Emory
Reed :: Huron
Rush :: Siena

"Father of our Country" Conference:
University of Washington
Washington University
Washington State
George Washington
Washington & Jefferson
Washington & Lee

Wrong Place Conference:
SCHOOL :: LOCATION
California :: Pennsylvania
Indiana :: Pennsylvania
Miami :: Ohio
Washington :: St. Louis
Northwestern :: Illinois

Conference of Twins:
Franklin & Marshall
Lewis & Clark
Emory & Henry
William & Mary (fraternal)

Loyola Home-and-Home Round Robin:
Loyola v Loyola at Los Angeles
Loyola v Loyola at Baltimore
Loyola v Loyola at Chicago
Loyola v Loyola at New Orleans
Loyola v Loyola at Los Angeles
Loyola v Loyola at Baltimore
Loyola v Loyola at Chicago
Loyola v Loyola at New Orleans
Loyola v Loyola at Los Angeles
Loyola v Loyola at Baltimore
Loyola v Loyola at Chicago
Loyola v Loyola at New Orleans

Game that is almost certainly an intense rivalry:
Maine Maritime v Massachusetts Maritime

Games that should be intense rivalries, but probably aren't:
Northeastern v Northwestern
Marquette v LaSalle
James Madison v George Washington
Chicago v St Louis
Trinity v Trinity
Augustana v Augustana
DePaul v Depauw

Game that sounds like a battle between the most prestigious schools in the U.S., but isn't:
Haverford v Samford

Legitimate Definite Article Bowl (as opposed to "The University of Texas", which seems pretentious):
The Citadel v The Polytechnic Institute

Suspicious Alias Bowl:
Smith v Williams

Colonial Government Bowl:
Virginia Commonwealth v Old Dominion

Summer Camp Bowl:
Sweet Briar v Slippery Rock

Games that decide coveted national titles:
- Most exotic name:
Valparaiso v Transylvania

- Nerdiest little engineering school with the wimpiest name:
Rose-Hulman v Harvey Mudd

Team no one will play:
National War College

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Very funny. Thanks for posting. Maybe some conferences by mascot?

(01-02-2015 02:10 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  In this season of bowl game overload, I thought it might be fun to dust it off this email discussion from 17-18 years ago about mythical college conferences and bowls. We had fun coming up with the list below.

Note that Eckerd Drugs no longer exists as a brand name, The Polytechnic Institute is now part of NYU, and Parliament's own AlmadenMike is a proud Rose-Hulman parent (and if they don't play Harvey Mudd in anything, it seems like they should).

On a more personal note, of the 18 or so emails on that original discussion, I believe the only address that still works is mine. One of the 18 was a compuserve address; as I recall, CompuServe was one of the original general-public ISPs and charged by the hour (!) for access.

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:01:45 -0500

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Game that is almost certainly an intense rivalry:
Maine Maritime v Massachusetts Maritime

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Isn't this littorally an intense rivalry?

(01-02-2015 05:56 PM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  

(01-02-2015 02:10 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  In this season of bowl game overload, I thought it might be fun to dust it off this email discussion from 17-18 years ago about mythical college conferences and bowls. We had fun coming up with the list below.

Note that Eckerd Drugs no longer exists as a brand name, The Polytechnic Institute is now part of NYU, and Parliament's own AlmadenMike is a proud Rose-Hulman parent (and if they don't play Harvey Mudd in anything, it seems like they should).

On a more personal note, of the 18 or so emails on that original discussion, I believe the only address that still works is mine. One of the 18 was a compuserve address; as I recall, CompuServe was one of the original general-public ISPs and charged by the hour (!) for access.

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:01:45 -0500

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Game that is almost certainly an intense rivalry:
Maine Maritime v Massachusetts Maritime

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Isn't this littorally an intense rivalry?

Bravo oh captain, my captain!

(01-02-2015 02:10 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  In this season of bowl game overload, I thought it might be fun to dust it off this email discussion from 17-18 years ago about mythical college conferences and bowls. We had fun coming up with the list below.

... Parliament's own AlmadenMike is a proud Rose-Hulman parent (and if they don't play Harvey Mudd in anything, it seems like they should).

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NOTES ON COLLEGE SPORTS

- Nerdiest little engineering school with the wimpiest name:
Rose-Hulman v Harvey Mudd

LOL. This is a closer match for me than you'd imagined, George ... as our daughter is a 2014 Harvey Mudd grad, while our son is a sophomore at Rose-Hulman.

Mudd is so small (~800 students/co-ed), that its sports teams include students from three of the five Claremont undergraduate colleges: Claremont-McKenna (~1,300/co-ed), Mudd and Scripps (990 women), known as CMS. (Pomona & Pitzer students make up the second Claremont D-III team.)

(CMS and Rose students could end up competing against each other in D-III tournaments. I woudn't be surprised if that's happened before.)

CMS has played Rice recently, however, in Ultimate Frisbee. And the Owls prevailed.

(01-02-2015 05:56 PM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  

(01-02-2015 02:10 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  In this season of bowl game overload, I thought it might be fun to dust it off this email discussion from 17-18 years ago about mythical college conferences and bowls. We had fun coming up with the list below.

Note that Eckerd Drugs no longer exists as a brand name, The Polytechnic Institute is now part of NYU, and Parliament's own AlmadenMike is a proud Rose-Hulman parent (and if they don't play Harvey Mudd in anything, it seems like they should).

On a more personal note, of the 18 or so emails on that original discussion, I believe the only address that still works is mine. One of the 18 was a compuserve address; as I recall, CompuServe was one of the original general-public ISPs and charged by the hour (!) for access.

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:01:45 -0500

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Game that is almost certainly an intense rivalry:
Maine Maritime v Massachusetts Maritime

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Isn't this littorally an intense rivalry?

I will send this to my daughter, who I've been trying to break of incorrectly using literally (i.e. using it as a point of emphasis rather than clarification).