It’s the second week of the college football season, and if you’re a Mountaineer fan like I am, you’ve been blessed with a short week before the team is back on the gridiron. This Friday night the West Virginia Mountaineers travel to Huntington to take on the Marshall Thundering Herd. This marks only the second time the ‘Eers have played in Huntington, and this game is easily the season’s most talked-about game throughout the Mountain State. Some people think WVU and Marshall have no business playing each other. Those people are wrong.Both fanbases are totally deranged about this game. Marshall fans hate the Mountaineers. HATE them. WVU fans think that playing the Herd is “beneath” the Mountaineers. Both are equally wrong.   Marshall fans would like to tell you this is a rivalry, but it’s not. It’s a one-sided grudge match, with the Herd getting the short end of the stick year in and year out. Obviously, this has led to Marshall fans developing a little brother syndrome that has skewed their opinion of the Mountaineers.

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