A Ball State student coined the infamous catchphrase "Boom Goes the Dynamite" during a less than stellar sports report. Now, the Cardinals use it as a way to pump up their fans. Justin Hesser/ Ball State

By Maggie Haskins

Along with pep rallys, tailgates, fight songs, and BCS drama, the rivalry T-shirt is an inherent part of the college landscape. Without it, how can a student from Michigan State, really express how they feel about hated Michigan? Sure, they could try and out yell the 110,000 fans in the Big House, but that seems like a futile effort. A T-shirt however allows a simple heckle like "Ann Arbor is a whore" to go a long way.

Saturday is the latest edition of the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville, where the Florida Gators will take on the Georgia Bulldogs, who will be without star quarterback DJ Shockley. No doubt there will be a string of T-shirts proclaiming the general ineptitude of the opposing team. There will undoubtedly be many "Urban Myth" "Urban Blight" T-shirts on the Georgia side, while Gators fans are sure to feature several T-shirts questioning the manhood of Georgia mascot Uga. Most recently Georgia fans sported a tee, which read: "Lose Carbs-- Eat a Gator: Remember it's Atkins Friendly."

Here are some of the best T-shirts spotted at college campuses across the nation.

I'll begin with my favorite: Ball State's Boom Goes the Dynamite tee.

The shirt was seen recently at a Ball State- Indiana-University-Purdue-Fort-Wayne (IUPFW) Volleyball Game and recalled perhaps one of the greatest moments in student sportscasting when Ball State student Brian Collins became a national sensation with his "Boom Goes the Dynamite" call.

Head Coach

Following Notre Dame's impressive start "Charles In Charge" T-shirts began to pop up around campus featuring Irish coach Charlie Weis' infamous undergraduate photo.

Of course, it should be understood that while it is enjoyable to boast about the success of your team on a T-shirt, it is also fun to embrace ineptitude. And no T-shirt we found better exemplified that spirit than Kentucky's "Rich Brooks Farewell Tour 2002-2005."

A Trojan is also a condom company

Notre Dame's "Catholics vs. Contraception" and "Trojans Break"

Takes a while to read but the payoff is great

Forget about Muck Fiami, it's too easy and is seen on every other campus. Instead, some schools decide to write a short paragraph about why their opponent is truly inferior. For example when Cal plays UCLA, do not be surprised to see the following on a shirt.

"The University of California was granted a formal charter in 1868 at the present setting in the shadow's of the mighty Berkeley hills. In 1919, 51 years later, for esteemed reasons of the UC, now the largest and most renowned education in the western US and the most important research facility in the world, decided the climate was right to spread to more remote areas of California, devoid of any resemble of academia. Consequently the regents approved construction of several smaller insignificant satellite annexes to the mother university. These puny up-start universities would cater to those dullards that a sought a less classical and less rigorous and seemingly unrewarding education. The third site chosen was Los Angeles. The particular pathetic southern branch called itself UCLA.

Get your our colors!

Get your own fight song!

Get your own damn Bear!"

Taking Advantage of Perceived Academic Superiority

Stanford loves to use this tactic against Cal. With the words "call" written on the front of a crimson T-shirt, the back of the shirt is where varied insults reside, including "Sorry Mom," "Name shortened due to Budget cuts," "Stanford was too hard to spell," "There's always grad school," and my favorite "I hate myself."

Embracing Stereotypes

Southern Cal's shirts: "U$C vs. U¢LA: You Get What You Pay For".