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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/thexfactor13 on 2025-02-05 22:37:12+00:00.

For Michigan football, Ohio St is obviously our biggest rival followed by MSU and then Notre Dame at a distant 3rd since it’s on a hiatus. As we’re in the midst of basketball season, I was thinking about how MSU is our biggest rival in basketball (also interesting how much less toxic the hoops rivalry is) yet can hardly work up the energy to truly hate OSU basketball. In fact, I can probably get more worked up about Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana when it comes to basketball. The same is true for Michigan hockey: MSU & ND are our main rivals. I’d say for most Michigan sports, MSU is the bigger rivalry with football as the glaring exception.

Are there any instances of this with your school or other examples you can think of? Some off the top of my mind were Tennessee-Bama in football vs. Tennessee-Kentucky in basketball or ND-USC being a big football rivalry and not really seeming to exist in the other sports (I imagine this might be the case for a lot of non-conference/independent football rivalries).