Most fans of college football know that the very first game was played between Princeton and Rutgers on Nov. 6, 1869.
Since then, fabled rivalries have become an annual rite of fall on many college campuses. And though the Big Game caters primarily to students and nostalgic alums, outsiders can also get swept up in the rah-rah spirit of pep rallies and bonfires, and the fanfare of often corny traditions that surround the game itself. Afterward, they can party with the champions or drown their sorrows with those who gave it the old college try.
Seminoles sophomore Wyatt Sexton, the son of assistant head coach Billy Sexton, has filled in for Chris Rix.
(Phil Coale -- AP)
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Listed below are some of the oldest and most tradition-bound college rivalries on the Eastern Seaboard.
-- Marshall S. Berdan
