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<blockquote data-quote="aaeismacgychel" data-source="post: 1981813" data-attributes="member: 748794"><p>I think the Mizzou rivalry hits different dependent on your age and location relative to St. Louis based on what I've seen. Those in the fanbase who either were in college or who fondly remember the games in the late 80s to mid 90s seem to treat this as a much bigger rivalry than those younger in the fanbase. I enrolled at Illinois in '01 so much of my first impressions of the rivalry was utterly weird Mizzou posters on the ESPN boards talking some extremely obnoxious and borderline insane smack followed by us beating them every year. In fact, the funniest thing about the rivalry in those days was that the only thing Kansas fans and Illini fans could agree on was that neither of us would claim Mizzou as an actual rival which just drove the Mizzou fans crazy.</p><p></p><p>So for me, Mizzou has never really felt like a big rival though the losing streak late in the Weber days and then again under Underwood was annoying. Heck, during my Illini Fandom I'd have put Arizona over Mizzou as a bigger noncon rival because of how great and nasty those games were. Overall though, I'd say historically Indiana was our biggest with Iowa being the biggest in recent years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaeismacgychel, post: 1981813, member: 748794"] I think the Mizzou rivalry hits different dependent on your age and location relative to St. Louis based on what I've seen. Those in the fanbase who either were in college or who fondly remember the games in the late 80s to mid 90s seem to treat this as a much bigger rivalry than those younger in the fanbase. I enrolled at Illinois in '01 so much of my first impressions of the rivalry was utterly weird Mizzou posters on the ESPN boards talking some extremely obnoxious and borderline insane smack followed by us beating them every year. In fact, the funniest thing about the rivalry in those days was that the only thing Kansas fans and Illini fans could agree on was that neither of us would claim Mizzou as an actual rival which just drove the Mizzou fans crazy. So for me, Mizzou has never really felt like a big rival though the losing streak late in the Weber days and then again under Underwood was annoying. Heck, during my Illini Fandom I'd have put Arizona over Mizzou as a bigger noncon rival because of how great and nasty those games were. Overall though, I'd say historically Indiana was our biggest with Iowa being the biggest in recent years. [/QUOTE]
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