Everyone loves a good trophy, right?Sure, a national championship trophy is nice and all, but why should only the national champion get to hoist some hardware at the end of the game or the end of the season?Luckily, this being college football, cooler heads prevailed andfans of the sport have been gifted with a slew of trophies in rivalry games, both old and new, but many arejust as iconic and meaningful as any other trophy up for grabs.MORE: And even schools without rivalry trophies (ahem, UCF and UConn)tried to get it on it and , even if they didn’t always catch on.A lot of the rivalry trophies are fairly basic and feature many of the same motifs and aesthetics either they look like a trophy, have a football on them, are a cup or jug of some kind or are just sort of plain.But every once in a while, a Quincy Enunwa Jersey trophy comes along that either has a great history behind it, is visually striking or has some other characteristic going for it that breaks the norm.MORE: Ohio State vs. Michigan odds, prediction for ‘The Game’ One of them the Golden Egg will be up for grabs on Thursday when No. 9 Ole Mi s travels to Starkville to take onMi sisippi State in the annual Egg Bowl. The Rebels won last year’s game and holds a 63-46-6 all-time advantage in the series.And though this week is rivalry week in college football, not all of the best rivalries have a trophy (The Game, The Iron Bowl), nor are all of the best trophies given out during rivalry week.With that, here’s a primer on some of the best trophies in the sport, in no particular order, and how they came to be. 1. Iron Skillet SMU vs. TCU First awarded: 1946Most recent winner: Sept. 28, 2021 – SMU 42, TCU 31Series history: TCU leads 51-42-7This is a rivalry between two Texas schools that’s been around since 1915 and has had 100 meetings, but the awarding of the Trophy a literal iron skillet dates back to 1946. Like several trophies on this list, the origin story varies. said it was started to “prevent mutilation of school property” by raucuous fans and the skillet served as a substitute for vandalism. Another telling of the lore indicates an SMU fan was frying frog legs before the game as a joke and an offended TCU fan thought the outcome of the game should get deterime who got the skillet and the frog legs.This year’s battle wasn’t without controversy, as then-TCU coach Gary Patterson , only to step down a month later. SMU coach is rumored to be the front-runner to replace Patterson. 2. Floyd of Rosedale Iowa vs. MinnesotaFirst awarded: 1935Most recent winner: Nov. 13, 2021 – Iowa 27, Minnesota 22Series history: Minnesota leads 62-51-2A 1934 contest between the Golden Gophers and Hawkeyes became heated when Iowa running back Ozzie Simmons, one of the few NFL New York Jets Jersey Black players in the country at the time, felt he was subjected to late hits and had to leave the game The following year when the two schools faced off, Iowa’s governor got involved and said if Minnesota players or officials treated Simmons the same way they did in the past, that the crowd wouldn’t stand for it.So to ease tensions, Minnesota’s governor sent a telegram wagering a prize hog that the Gophers would win the game and Iowa’s governor accepted. The trophy’s name comes from Floyd Olson, then Minnesota’s governor and Rosedale Farms, where Olson got the pig. 3. Golden Egg Mi si sippi State vs. Ole Carl Lawson Jersey Mi sFirst awarded: 1927Most recent winner: Nov. 28, 2020 – Ole Mi s 31, Mi si sippi State 24Series history: Ole Mi s leads 63-46-6MORE: Another case of trying to curb vandalism, the rivalry didn’t actually get named “The Egg Bowl” when a Mi si sppi sports writer Tom Patterson dubbed it as such. Prior to that, it was the Battle for the Golden Egg, which got its namesake from the trophy that’s awarded.In 1926, Ole Mi s snapped a 13-game losing streak in the rivalry, beating Mi si sippi State 7-6 in Starkville. , Ole Mi s fans stormed the field, attempted to tear down goalposts and fights broke out, leading to the creation of the Golden Egg as a means to prevent similar incidents in the future.Though not actually golden, the egg is a football-shaped piece of bra s more similar to the balls used at the time than the ones used currently, which is why it resembles an egg more than a football.Notre Dame and USC are about to kickoff to play for the Jeweled Shillelagh. Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) 4.Jeweled Shillelagh Notre Dame vs. USCFirst awarded: 1952Most recent winner: Oct. 23, 2021 – Notre Dame 31, USC 16Series history: Notre Dame leads. 48-36-5BENDER: The rivalry between these two schools actually began in 1926, but in 1952, the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Los Angeles decided to commemorate the series up to that point and commi sioned the presentation of a jeweled shillelagh, an old Gaelic war club.At the time, it was said the “symbolize in part the high tradition, the keen rivalry and above all the sincere respect which these two great universities have for each other.” The shillelagh features ruby adorned Trojan heads for USC wins and emerald adorned shamrocks for Notre Dame wins.The original shillelagh ran out of space in 1989 and is on display in South Bend. The current one is a foot longer and commemorates wins in the series dating back to 1990. 5. Wagon Wheel Akron vs. Kent StateFirst awarded: 1946Most recent winner: Nov. 20, 2021 – Kent State 38, Akron 0Series history: Akron leads 35-27-2Though not nece sarily a rivalry between two perennial football powers, this trophy is inextricably linked to both schools. when former Akron industrialist John Buchtel set out to establish a college where Kent State now isin the 1870s. En route, his wagon got stuck in the mud and when horses eventually pulled it free, but not before losing a wheel to his wagon.The wheel was discovered in 1902 and in New York Jets Jersey 1945 was decided as the trophy to give to the winner of the battle between the two MAC schools. 6. Paul Bunyan’s Axe Wisconsin vs. MinnesotaFirst awarded: 1948Most recent winner: Dec. 19, 2020 – Wisconsin 20, Minnesota 17Series history: Wisconsin leads 62-60-8Created in 1948 the lost “Slab of Bacon” trophy by Wisconsin lettterwinners, this trophy is one of the most iconic, and certainly among the biggest in college football.At over six feet long, the scores of each game in the rivalry are recorded on the handle, with one side painted red and white for the Badgers and the other maroon and gold for the Golden Gophers. A new one was crafted in 2000 and theoriginal axe wa