In football, if you could pick any team from any conference to play each year as a rival, who would

[johnnytkb]

Arkansas St.

[hogsanity]

Any team NOT from Texas.

[geauxhawgs]

#1 - LSU (by a long shot)
#2- Texas
#3- Texas A&M
#4- Ole Miss
#5- Oklahoma

[HF#1]

Would love to play Texas, home and home, every single season...  Just do a 30 year contract

[porkulus]

Living in the Fort Smith area I would have to say OU.  So many delusional OU fans in these parts thumping their chest after a 9 or 10 win season when they may play one good team all year.  Would love the chance to hand their a$$ to them yearly.

[redeye]

Believe it or not, one team I'd like to see us play is Arkansas State.  It would be fun and I don't buy into all the excuses for why we don't play them.

Any team NOT from Texas.

Yea?  Which one?

[HammusArkansus]

I'm going with the U of Houston.  Can't say it's a 'rent-a-win', but in most years, it should not be a problem.  Additional game in Texas should help recruiting, especially in the Houston area.  We used to get some pretty good talent from south Texas until we went SEC.  IMHO, to be competitive year in and year out, the Texas recruiting pipeline needs to be wide open.

[pigheaded]

Texas
Florida

Recruiting

[Inhogswetrust]

Arkansas St.

Do you honestly think a G5 schools team would be considered a rival for a P5 schools team.

[hogsanity]

Believe it or not, one team I'd like to see us play is Arkansas State.  It would be fun and I don't buy into all the excuses for why we don't play them.

Yea?  Which one?

Ohio St.

[Pig in the Pokey]

Texas.









Period.

[Pig in the Pokey]

Ohio St.

also a fine choice!

[woopigsooie1222]

OU

this

[East Clintwood]

Texas

or Miami for recruiting

Tennessee should be our regular east division opponent.

[Hawgzinbowlz]

1. SEC West...oh, wait
2. Notre Dame
3. Texas
4. Miami
5. OU
6. USC
7. Oregon
8. Ohio State
9. Michigan
10. Florida State
1. SEC West...it doesn't get any better than this...week after week...after...

" GO HOGS "

[WriterWrong]

Texas. And there isn't a close second.

Agreed whole heartedly.

We do play games in Texas already. But, beating Texas Tech and/or Texas A&M aren't the same as beating the shorthorns.

Beating Texas in Texas bigger for recruiting than beating both Tech and A&M.




And, we should all hate the shorthorns anyway.

[VirginiaHog]

1. Miami
2. Texas
3. USC
4. Oklahoma
5. Notre Dame

This

[Sportster365]

Interesting. I was expecting to see a lot more tier 2 level P5 conf. teams.  Although I think there are a few struggling tier 1 teams who would love to add a SEC W opponent like Arkansas to there schedule each year to perhaps spruce it up a bit for the committee.

I don't know I just thought a good tier 2 team like Wisconsin (who has no legitimate in/state or out/state rival) might take playing us a little more seriously.

Seeing as how Florida and Florida St. now likely hold the biggest rivalry in Florida... playing Miami wouldn't be too far fetched.

Penn. St could likely be another. The Ohio St./Michigan game is much bigger than Penn vs tOSU/Michigan.  And do the people of Pennsylvania really consider Penn. St vs Pitt a rivalry?

And then there's Stanford. A quality team with no legitimate P5 rival.

[BR]

UCLA or Stanford:  Gets us in prime California recruiting areas

[rickm1976]

Texas. And there isn't a close second.

You saved me from having to type it.  The only second to them would be OU, but they're not even close.

[Youngsta71701]

1. Texas- Old Rivalry + Recruiting
2. Florida State- Recruiting
3. LSU- Rivalry + Recruiting
4. USC- Recruiting
5. Notre Dame- Pure dislike...I just can't stand how they try to put them on a pedestal.

[texas tush hog]

Notre Dame  National television forever.

[phadedhawg]

1.  Arkansas State
2.  Notre Dame
3.  Washington (I live in Seattle and would love to see the Hogs up here)
4.  Miami

[Inhogswetrust]

Interesting. I was expecting to see a lot more tier 2 level P5 conf. teams.  Although I think there are a few struggling tier 1 teams who would love to add a SEC W opponent like Arkansas to there schedule each year to perhaps spruce it up a bit for the committee.

I don't know I just thought a good tier 2 team like Wisconsin (who has no legitimate in/state or out/state rival) might take playing us a little more seriously.

Seeing as how Florida and Florida St. now likely hold the biggest rivalry in Florida... playing Miami wouldn't be too far fetched.

Penn. St could likely be another. The Ohio St./Michigan game is much bigger than Penn vs tOSU/Michigan.  And do the people of Pennsylvania really consider Penn. St vs Pitt a rivalry?

And then there's Stanford. A quality team with no legitimate P5 rival.

Stanford v. Cal is not the biggest rivalry but it isn't slouchy either.

[oldhawg]

Recurring six year home and home rotations among the three Service Academies.

[Pig In The City]

TCU or Texas.  We need to recruit Texas better.

[Wildhog]

Would much rather be spending our time and resources in S Florida than in Texas.

[Tusks]

OU, the land grabbers, because THAT'S who the Hogs compete with for recruits out of Texas.

Plus I hate their arse.

[Sportster365]

In all honesty, there's simply no better matchup for us other than the Battle for the Boot against LSU.

No matter how either fanbase tries to dismiss it, there's no way around it. Like us, LSU has no legitimate rival. Alabama's premier rival is Auburn. Florida's is FSU and A&Ms will always be Texas. LSU fans who think Alabama and Florida fans view them as bigger rivals than Auburn and FSU are delusional.

As for us and Mootsouri, even after them beating us this year I could care less about playing them every year or even revenging our loss against them.

[ATLHog]

Oklahoma
LSU

[OneTuskOverTheLine™]

1. USC
2. Miami
3. Oklahoma
4. Texas
5. Notre Dame

We owe some of these teams a good, regular beating....

Nailed my top 5 too..!

[The_Bionic_Pig]

1.Notre Dame in St. Louis
2.Texas in Dallas


5.

[PORKULATOR]

Ohio St.

this ^^^^
I hate em. Like ... As much as I do FSU only more consistently.
Wps

[jvanhorn]

Oklahoma.

[Ohio Hog]

Ohio State
Notre Dame

[longpig]

Notre Dame home and home

[Torqued pork]

Bama...twice a year. Maybe with a long enough string of losses against them they would lose their status as Hogville's second favorite SEC team.

[geauxhawgs]

In all honesty, there's simply no better matchup for us other than the Battle for the Boot against LSU.

No matter how either fanbase tries to dismiss it, there's no way around it. Like us, LSU has no legitimate rival. Alabama's premier rival is Auburn. Florida's is FSU and A&Ms will always be Texas. LSU fans who think Alabama and Florida fans view them as bigger rivals than Auburn and FSU are delusional.

As for us and Mootsouri, even after them beating us this year I could care less about playing them every year or even revenging our loss against them.

Well said. Boom!

[Ben]

If everyone is that focused on recruiting, then 1 ideal state to be rivals with is some of the bama schools. Bama athletes are always overlooked by arkansas

[rlamb]

Notre Dame and Texas in every alternating year if possible.
Then cupcakes but still with a major name like Indiana, Purdue, Oregon State,
Syracuse, NC State and etc.