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The South's Oldest Rivalry is the name given to the North Carolina–Virginia football rivalry. [6] It is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia and the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [7]
The series between the two colleges, which are 17 miles (27 km) away from each other in the Lehigh Valley, is the most played rivalry in college football history with 158 meetings since 1884. This is a list of rivalry games in college football. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner of the rivalry between the teams. [a]
The Military Classic is the thirteenth oldest still-played rivalry in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) of the NCAA. Both teams were members of the Southern Conference (SoCon) from 1936 until 2003, when VMI left for the Big South Conference and were reunited in the SoCon when VMI returned in 2014. [8] [9]
Virginia is the winningest team in Duke's Mayo Bowl history with a 3–0 record after its victories in 2002, 2003, and 2018. Virginia also holds the record for largest margin of victory in that bowl after its 28–0 shutout victory over South Carolina at Bank of America Stadium in 2018.
The winner of this annual W&M–Richmond match-up claims the Capital Cup (previously known as the I-64 Trophy), named for the last two Virginia state capitals, Richmond and Williamsburg. In 2008, William & Mary opened the Jimmye Laycock Football Center , housing the Tribe locker room, football players' classroom study sessions and tape review ...
This championship game matchup tied the rivalry with the South's Oldest Rivalry between Virginia and North Carolina for the 2nd most played rivalry game in FBS football. The rivalry is historically close, with the all-time series tied as recently as the 2014 season. However, since 2006, Georgia has won 17 of the last 20 to take a nine-game lead.
It wasn't until conference realignment that the rivalry game's frequency shifted: West Virginia left the Big East for the Big 12 in 2012, and Pitt left for the ACC in 2013.
University of Maryland and West Virginia University – A long tradition of football rivalry, dating back to 1919 (See also: Maryland–West Virginia football rivalry). University of Memphis and University of Southern Mississippi – The Black and Blue Bowl .