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Game Thread tOSU @ Penn State, Oct 25th @ 8pm ET, ESPN

Just out of curiousity, at what point could it become a rivalry in your mind.

On that glorious day when the sky is blue, the birds are signing and the earth opens up and swallows the state up north whole.

Then we will be in the market for a new rival and Ped State will be in the running for the gig along with a half dozen other B1G schools that field a good team once every 4-5 years.
 
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Just out of curiousity, at what point could it become a rivalry in your mind.
When they stop parlaying their formerly elite tradition into NW levels of league championships.

There were a host of great moments and matchups through 2006 that was building towards a good secondary rivalry. Then their pathetic recruiting sent them back into a pile of mediocrity, which was later fictionalized as the byproduct of harsh sanctions.
 
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Just out of curiousity, at what point could it become a rivalry in your mind.

I guess it depends on your definition of "rivalry". Is there a rivalry between Ohio State and Indiana? Between Ohio State and Purdue? Between Ohio State and Wisconsin? I'd answer all of those with a "no". If Indiana becomes good and consistently wins 6-7 games in the Big Ten for 5-8 years, and there's some real good knock-out games between Ohio State and Indiana, they could become a secondary rivalry. Just like Penn State could have become a secondary rivalry, or Wisconsin. Also, putting some history in there helps: "Snow Bowl", "10 years war", "Because I couldn't go for 3". The argument of "You guys cried in 1994, so we lost the national championship" - that doesn't make a rivalry.
 
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