Oregon Ducks Rivals

Main Rivals
Main Rival of

Rivalry Points

How many rivalry points do fans assign to opponents, and how do opposing fans reciprocate
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Oregon Points
(max 100)
Aggregate Points
(max 200)
Rival Points
(max 100)

Hostility

How fans of each team react to opposing fans in this rivalry

Prejudice

Discrimination

Rivalry Quotes

Quotes from fans and rivals
Washington: This is the school that used to rule the Northwest. They had money, fame, location, talent... and we had nothing. They looked down upon us. Oh, how the times have changed! This is our biggest rival. This is not "friendly", but pure hatred (for the team, the alumni are okay). / Oregon State: This is our friendly rival, with which we play the aptly named "Civil War". They are little brother. / Stanford: This is not a historic rivalry, but in recent years it has meant so much. We hate them with respect. / USC: Every Pac-12 team looks at USC as the University of Spoiled Children, the team that has it all and has ruled the conference for so many years. This game is heightened for every team, but may mean more to Oregon because USC and Oregon have won at least a share of almost every Pac-x championship since 2000. / Washington State: These are the enemy of the enemy, our friend. Yet, we tend to encounter the alumni often enough that we know it would be quite embarrassing to lose to them. So we don't. / Arizona/Arizona State/Cal/UCLA: The other Pac-10 teams are minor rivals. They certainly register on the radar. / Utah/Colorado: The other Pac-12 teams. They are less like rivals, though we have some hatred for Colorado that stems from our history that would surface if they ever put together a good team again. / Oklahoma: These are the most obnoxious fans in existence. They are a bunch of crybabies. / Boise State: I take back the Oklahoma comment, these are the most obnoxious fans in existence.
Oregon Fan
2013
Fuck the Huskies. They voted to exclude us from the Pac, the voted us out of a Rose Bowl, they live in the distant past while touting their forgotten national championships, Jim Owens and Rick Neuheisel were both classless scum while they coached there, and fuck the huskies.
Oregon Fan
2013

Terms / Definitions

What does it all mean?

Rivalry Points

Rival Points
Average Rivalry Points assigned to a rival team. 0-100

Reverse Rival Points
Average Rivalry Points assigned to the favorite team by the rival team’s fans. 0-100

Rivalry Recipe

Rivalry Ingredients
Each Rivalry Recipe is composed of a mix of 10 common ingredients to rivalry discerned from thousands of fan comments (Tyler & Cobbs, 2015, 2019). Fans on each side of a rivalry have rated the importance of each ingredient on a 1-7 scale (7 being ‘extremely important’).

Hostility

Prejudice
How much prejudice do fans hold against fans of the rival team?  1 [lowest] – 7 [highest]

We measured prejudice using 4 questions that included: “A(n) [Rival] fan’s character is more questionable than a typical fan’s character.”

Discrimination
How much do fans discriminate in their relationships with fans of the rival team? 1 [lowest] – 7 [highest]

We measured relationship discrimination using 6 questions adapted from Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) that included: “I would be less likely to marry a [rival] fan than a typical fan.” and “As a boss, I would be less likely to hire a [rival] fan than a typical fan.”