Here's more ammunition for the disbelief among local fans that the Kansas-Missouri rivalry may be going away should the Tigers move to the SEC, as many are suggesting is inevitable.
The Wall Street Journal published a piece today on the "dirtiest rivalry in college football." The Journal tallied how many conduct and roughness penalties have been assessed in the last five meetings of 40 well-known rivalries.
Here's their list:
1. Auburn-Georgia: 5.4 per game; biggest offender - Georgia (59%)
2. Duke-North Carolina: 5.2 per game; biggest offender - UNC (69%)
3. UCLA-USC: 4.8 per game; biggest offender - UCLA (54%)
4. New Mexico-New Mexico State: 4.6 per game; biggest offender - NM (65%)
5. Kansas-Missouri: 4.2 per game; biggest offender - MU (76%)
6. Michigan-Michigan St.: 4 per game; biggest offender - MSU (80%)
7. C. Michigan-W. Michigan: 3.8 per game; biggest offender - WM (58%)
8. BYU-Utah: 3.6 per game; biggest offender - Utah (61%)
9. NC State-North Carolina: 3.4 per game; biggest offender - UNC (59%)
Clearly, North Carolina has issues as they are noted twice as "biggest offender." And, Missouri's 76% "offender" rate trails only Michigan State, in the Spartans' rivalry versus Michigan.
Really--do we want this Border War thing to go away?
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