Your rivalry moment for today

And, yes, I know what you're thinking.

You're thinking, "Ooh, Jim Harbaugh must have gotten off a good burn on Ohio State, or maybe the whole entire state of Ohio."

You're thinking, "Some deranged Alabama fan must have poisoned another tree at Auburn."

You're thinking, "A passel of IU fans must have stolen Purdue Pete's hammer and chased him around with it" ... or, "Tommy Trojan must have suggested Knute Rockne do something anatomically impossible" ... or, "Some enterprising Georgia Tech students must have sneaked onto the Georgia campus and stolen poor Uga, the Georgia bulldog."

Well.  I could see how you'd think that.

This is, after all, the traditional weekend for big rivalry games in college football, which means it's the weekend where college football most starkly displays why it's way, way better than that other game they play on Sundays and such. This is because the other game, the NASH-unal FOOT-ball League, doesn't really do rivalries. Oh, they like to pretend they do. But, you know, not really.

Not like college football.

Not like Alabama-Auburn, or Ohio State-Michigan, or USC-Notre Dame. Those games, of course, are all happening this weekend, along with Georgia-Georgia Tech, Florida State-Florida and the Old Oaken Bucket game between Purdue and Indiana -- aka, This Is Actually A Basketball Rivalry, But We Don't Like Each Other In Football, Either.

Well ... your rivalry moment for today doesn't come from any of those. It comes from the Egg Bowl.

Now, if you don't who plays in the Egg Bowl, don't feel bad. It's not one of your more well-known rivalries, truth be told. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have a healthy quotient of enmity.

And so down in Oxford, Miss., on Thanksgiving Day, Ole Miss and Mississippi State went at it again for all the, um, eggs. And in the third quarter of what turned out to be a Mississippi State rout, things  got a little out of hand.

Which is to say, they had themselves a full-on brawl.

It happened right at the end of the quarter, after Ole Miss appeared to score a touchdown. Some pushing and shoving ensued, and that turned into some punches, and pretty soon both benches emptied and everyone was throwing down in the end zone.

Four players were ejected.

And that just goes to show you that, even if Ole Miss-Mississippi State isn't a marquee rivalry outside the state of Mississippi, inside the state lines it's as heated as any rivalry anywhere. They don't like each other just as much as two rivals anywhere don't like each other.

And ain't that grand?