Louisville's persistent conference-hopping over the past four decades or so has made finding steady rivals outside of the University of Kentucky a bit of a chore.
Most debates surrounding the topic of U of L's secondary rival(s) will settle on longtime conference companion Cincinnati, Memphis or an old Big East Big East and current ACC cohort like Syracuse. The basis for these rivalries centers around the heightened importance given to football and men's basketball ... or in Memphis' case, pretty much just men's basketball.
When it comes to America's third major sport, however, no flame of contention has burned brighter in recent years for Louisville than the one between it and Vanderbilt.