Thread of stupid college football trophy game trophies
Come one, come all! The person to find the dumbest/most stupid looking/lamest/strange college football trophy wins the internets.
My vote- the Land Grant Trophy. Part of the fictional rivalry between penn state and sparty. This thing is one big clusterfuck of awful.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:22 PM ^
What do you mean? They are a REAL Notre Dame rival though!
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:48 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:50 PM ^
Yeah, most of these trophys are just made up so that other schools can rip off the Little Brown Jug mystique. They accomplish nothing.
If I'm a player, I would feel foolish parading some of these around just because I'm supposed to.
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:56 PM ^
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/touch/story.html?id=8765615
This game will be played on Saturday for the first time in 15 years as Carleton had shut-down its football program following the 1998 season.
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:57 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:04 PM ^
This one made me chuckle. And it was from the Bleacher Report-
It's called the CMU/WMU Rivalry Trophy
This creatively-named trophy is another new one to the landscape of college football. This trophy, curiously enough, is awarded to the winner of the Central Michigan-Western Michigan football game each year. Imagine that.
The trophy was introduced in 2008 for a reason that remains a mystery. The two teams have been playing each other almost yearly since 1907. So why not introduce a trophy after 100 years?
On top of this rather plain looking trophy is a cannon, which is supposedly there to represent the cannons at both CMU and WMU that are fired after every score.
A bland trophy added to a heated in-state rivalry after a century had already gone by? What's the point?
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:05 PM ^
Louisville-Cincinnati...The keg of nails? Dumb.
or the victory barrel between NC State and ECU.
You can't put your names on a wooden barrel and call it a rivalry.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:50 PM ^
I'm struggling to understand what is dumb about a KEG OF NAILS.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:07 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:15 PM ^
Is it that time of the month, again?
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:05 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
LSU-Tulane, the Battle of the Rag. The rivalry goes back to 1893. They've been fighting over the rag since 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_the_Rag
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:18 PM ^
As of 2009, Illinois and Northwestern play for a hat:
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:21 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:32 PM ^
I didn't realize he was ever real...Also, he's a good-sized pig as trophy pigs go.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:30 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
Why would anyone want to watch Iowa and Wisconsin play?
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:49 PM ^
Floyd of Rosedale is for the Iowa-Minnesota winner. (Though I guess your point stands.)
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
Because college football is fun.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:37 PM ^
Actually a neat "behind the scenes" history to that: racism. Minnesota had a star back in the 30s named Ozzie Simmons who happened to be black. The Iowa team took exception to that and injured/targeted him. The next year the governors got to smacktalking and thus the bet was a prize Minnesota pig.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
I looked it up, and I believe that this is now my favorite non Brown Jug trophy. Love the history, especially as it was an era when Minnesota was actually good.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:21 PM ^
I live in the Twin Cities and know quite a few people who have gone to those respective schools. They take Trolling very seriously.
Another god awful trophy from around this area is the War on I 94...Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Wisconsin-Stout started playing in 1917, but the trophy was introduced 2 years ago. Who doesn't get pumped up playing for a wooden interstate sign?
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:49 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
I would sacrifice my life to win that trophy. That has to be a major recruiting tool.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:02 PM ^
Any trophy established before 1970 (or choose your preferred year) is a winner, I don't care what it looks like. Anything established since them is merely an attempt to recreate the tradition of older trophies.
In any event, I'll throw in LSU-Arkansas as the worst:
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:06 PM ^
the venerable trophy for the winner of the Indiana/Purdue game? It could have just as easily have been called the Old Oak Pail.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:11 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2013 at 6:18 PM ^
Nothing to contribute, but this thread is awesome. Sombody should do a poll for the board to vote for worst trophy, but it's impossible to choose.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^
but Case and Wooster play for a stringer of golden fish:
The winner each year gets a new fish on its end of the stringer--you get a pike or bass for a blowout, a bluegill or perch for a close win.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:06 PM ^
October 3rd, 2013 at 8:50 AM ^
is Carnegie. But I don't thnk there's a trophy.
The stringer was started by two brothers, both econ professors, one at Case and the other at Wooster.
http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/baird_brothers_trophy
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
that fish stringer is awesome.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
Now THAT is awesome. I want to watch them play* to see the team captain parade around his catch o' the day.
*(that is, watch the last 30 seconds of the game.)
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:14 PM ^
This is the only trophy Eastern has won in the last 30 years.
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:45 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:20 PM ^
Best trophy after the Brown Jug in my opinion is the Platypus Trophy. Because it is of a frickin' platypus.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
The Territorial Cup between Arizona and ASU is hands-down the stupidest trophy. Not because the trophy itself is all that stupid, but because the schools trumpet it as "the oldest rivalry trophy in college sports." The cup was awarded to ASU (by God knows who) for going undefeated in the state (then territory) of Arizona in 1899, and then was promptly lost until 1980 when someone dug it up somewhere and stashed it in the university archives. In 2001 ASU decided to make it a rivalry trophy between them and UA. So it's the oldest object being used as a trophy. Lame, since the history of the Brown Jug runs a hell of a lot deeper.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^
The best are the ones that didn't begin as trophies, but were just random stuff that teams decided to play for. Any trophy that actually began its life as a trophy is not the same.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
All of this shows that the Little Brown Jug is so cool that everyone wants a piece of it, even if they have to just make shit up.
We have nice things.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
BYU, Utah, and Utah State battle for a boot.
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:41 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 11:07 PM ^
that neither school can find? Stumbled on this article for that heated Wyoming-Hawaii rivalry trophy, the Paniolo Trophy. Due to scheduling in the MWC, they have one more season to find it or re-create it from pictures.