Hang up the historicity of the Third Saturday.
Retire the in-state animus and improbable finishes of the Iron Bowl.
Hang up The Game — a series as lopsided as any for the past two decades.
The Red River remains a spectacle, but that river seems to be running dry.
Mothball the pageantry of the USC-ND — one of the nation’s most venerated intersectional clashes.
Let the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry remain the oldest.
Play for your Axes, and Pigs, and Golden Boots, and Old Oaken Buckets, and Spitoons. Break out the goofy joy of the $5 Bits of Broken Chair and the shop-project-gone-wrong Magnolia Trophy.