A modest proposal to give every #MACtion rivalry a neutral field game

Photo by Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers made some big news recently, renewing the Border War rivalry in basketball. That particular rivalry, long a part of Big 12 lore, had laid dormant for years due to Missouri’s move to the SEC after the latest round of expansion in college football.

It’s a big win for the pagentry of collegiate sports. With the intrensic regionality of the sport, rivalry games with states that share a state (or a border) and/or have stayed competitive over the years just have a completely different aura to them. No one gets up for say, Penn State vs. Rutgers. But Penn State and Pitt (which is a rivalry, no matter…