We’ve had a lot of people ask us why this annual matchup between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Iowa State Cyclones has been dubbed The Riot Bowl, so I figured now would be as good of a time as any talk about why this game is actually college football’s best rivalry not acknowledged by either university.
We all know West Virginia’s history with catching things on fire and just creating mass chaos following huge wins, some losses and assassinations of certain enemies of the United States. On the flip side of that, Iowa State has - or had, rather - their own dark, rioting passenger in the form of VEISHEA - an abbreviation for the colleges of the university that existed when the event was created; Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics, and Agriculture.