The Rival Next Door: The shortest road trip in Division II is also the most heated

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of Traditionally Weird, a weekly series on the oddities and eccentricities of college football, from mascots to rivalries to student-section rituals and (way) beyond.

On Saturday, the Henderson State football team will gather, dress and wait until 11:30 a.m. local time. That’s when police will block off the two-lane highway that separates that campus from the campus of Ouachita Baptist in Arkadelphia, Ark.