That's cute, but as someone who has been here for 15 years, it's wrong. They will mention how much they hate Stanford in their campus tours, it will be brought up during their orientation, they will get more pleasure out of us losing than them winning (though given the last decade they haven't had too many chances to win); walk around either campus during a Big Game and see who's yelling at who and who general doesn't about who. It's more mentioned as a formality to Stanford students, like yeah I guess this is the team we're supposed to dislike, while it's more ingrained into Cal. Now, maybe it's stronger among football and other sports than among the general student population and town populace; interest in both schools, to be honest, falls once you get outside campus grounds; this isn't exactly Alabama and Auburn country. But, and I hate to say it, among the students it's more like Cornell and Harvard, where we primarily hate Harvard but Harvard is split between disliking a number of schools.
