<p>It is a rivalry, but its not exactly trivial. </p>
<p>Age speaks of credibility and those who don’t look up references tend to believe such claims and things like magazine rankings. Such is a conscious effort at marketing.</p>
<p>What you do now is start matching up all the disparate bits of information and see how the complex story fits together. No one or university can orchestrate information for different sources over decades and even centuries. The UF history story falls apart and FSU’s comes together over the years. This reconciliation of historic events through sources like the official archives of the State of Florida, a very old book from a library in Orlando, scanned documents from the special collections section of FSU’s library and so on speaks of truth because it is believable. It is believable because everyone knows from personal experience the facts are real. This is credibility.</p>
<p>Have fun. As a graduate of FSU I’ve known about such claims and the real story for a long time.</p>
<p>If you want to really go “wow” check out these photos. One is from the Florida State College in 1902 and the other from more recent times at UF.</p>
<p>1902 FSC football team: [File:Florida</a> State rc01140.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_State_rc01140.jpg]File:Florida”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_State_rc01140.jpg)
Recent UF sports logo: [File:UF</a> logo (1992-1997).png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UF_logo_(1992-1997).png]File:UF”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UF_logo_(1992-1997).png)</p>
![http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_State_rc01140.jpg]File:Florida](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_State_rc01140.jpg%5DFile:Florida){kind=link}
![http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UF_logo_(1992-1997).png]File:UF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UF_logo_(1992-1997).png%5DFile:UF){kind=link}
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<p>See anything familiar in each?</p>