But until Reid can prove he's not Marty Schottenheimer 2.0, you shouldn't get tooexcited. Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. Search: 10 Most Obnoxious College Alumni Bases. This is going to sound like I'm quoting Yoda, but this is totally true. Earlier, I claimed Texas to be the most arrogant of all the Texas schools, which I promise you is true. Hog fans retorted that they do the call at any long break in the action and that the injured player may not have been noticed, but if that's the case leaders of those types of cheers need to be more wary of what is going on down on the field. So,. Wisconsinites are generally some pretty nice people who just go to their football games to "jump around," which I admit is totally worth going. However, the Tide faithful have gone to extreme lengths to show off how great their team is, with one poisoning the storied oak trees on the Auburn campus. Sign up for daily stories delivered to your inbox. From graveyards to cowbells to $2 bills, here's a look at eight of college football's strangest. Florida, man. Rama jama, indeed. But then it's the same old, same old -- it took this team 16 years to get rid of Marvin Lewis and his remarkably mediocre 131-122-3 record, which included seven years of losing the first game in the playoffs. Your team is better than any other team, just like your city is better than any other city! You should. Reggie Bush. We stay in the South, notably the SEC, with Auburn's rival Georgia. Usually there is a group of awful ones that sully the name for the entire group. c. Success and making excuses for illegally gained success: Have you won a few national championships lately? It became the year 2000 and Andover and Wesleyan graduate Billy Belichick started coaching, Drew Bledsoe got hurt, handsome Tom Brady stepped in, and the hapless Patriots started winning Super Bowls. So many questions! Since the inception of the conference, they have won the conference title more than anyone else by a wide margin. Except people actually show up to your games. Rutgers has never been the powerhouse its fans want it to be, but by the arrogance many of them exude, you'd be surprised that the university does't own more Big East Championships. Without further ado, the five absolute worst fan bases in the SEC: The 5 Worst SEC Fan Bases 5. Had this ranking been done 5-6 years ago, theyd be much higher on the list. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images). And out west, theyre just here to party. You know all those jokes people make about Ohio? The most annoying CFB fan base is down to Bama. The Oklahoma Sooners fan base. I almost find it laughable that someone is that intense to poison some special trees by Toomer's Corner Store. Say what you will about the barely-filled Hard Rock Stadium on Saturdays, when Miami sniffs relevance, their fans are as heinous as anyone. I read innumerable Bleacher Report articles, which all, strangely, ended up contradicting each other. Kansas Jayhawks One word: smug. Now, the Wildcats failed to win more than one of their first six games and have already gone as far to fire Stoops in the middle of the season. Could this be the year they return to their former glory. And then of course we know what happened. (Oh and that Florida jealousy effect? Sign up for the Longhorns Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. However, there are some instances where fans wearing red and white took fandom to the next level. To determine our rankings, we surveyed more than 2,000 NCAA football fans across the country to ask them to rate the behavior of every fan base in the Power Five conferences (SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and ACC), as well as independent teams. I will admit that Oklahoma fans have a lot to be proud of when it comes to their football team, but many of them take it much too far. When I close my eyes and think USC football fan, I see a guy who looks vaguely like actual USC fan Wilmer Valderrama, and in between bites of a light salad hes condescendingly explaining to me why the Trojans are the team of the 2000s, whilehe is a master of triple-taskinghe simultaneously texts his Lambo dealer and Lakers ticket hook-up. And apparently the hatred for all things Duke goes beyond the basketball court, as Blue Devils football fans wound up third on the most arrogant list. Here are four common factors I found in picking crappy fan bases: a. Boorishness: Are you drinking enough to kill a beluga whale and then taking random swings at opposing fans children? As for Tebow Could you at least have saved the permanent plaques until after he graduated? The massive packs they travel in. 5 on the worst-behaved list for their boozy antics. Nick Saban runs a tight ship and most of his players stay under lock and key. Possibly the most annoying thing about UGA fans though is their optimism. Darren Rovell went to work on Twitter to complete this poll by allowing fans to vote on who they think is the most annoying fanbase. For most of the past two decades, the Cowboys' die-hards' belief that they're still living in the First World of Fandom has been laughable. The Niners would actually be much higher on this list a couple of years ago, when youreally started to bring back that '80s/'90s level of cockiness during the Harbaugh era, and all of youwere Kaepernick-ing on yourTumblr pages and starting to debate whether he would overtake Joe Montana as the greatest QB in Niners history. Don't miss a story! By far the least fair-weather of Atlanta's pro sports fans (dont buy into the lazy generalization that alllll ATL fans are apathetic), the stadium gets packed, and it gets LOUD. Probably because you recognize that everyone still knows you as the team with orange pants. And then Jed York happened. According to Rovell, the fanbases most often mentioned were Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Clemson, Michigan and Texas. Those longtime Seattlites who wont shut up about how they used to watch Kelly Stouffer at the Kingdome are only slightly less infuriating than the Mensa convention of new fans who somehow think theyre the loudest in football, ignoring stuff like innovative stadium construction and physics while believing that people in Seattle are just really, really good at yelling. Polling college football fans on their least favorite fanbases. In a game a few years back, CU instead began to throw T-shirts, bright yellow ones. Replies (1) 2 0. panhandlebama Alabama Fan Member since Oct 2021 1037 posts. You generally hate them, I wouldnt use hate in this sense as I would call it an aggressive dislike, but those fans are out there. Though fairly offensive, it's highly catchy and annoying. Alabama is a great football university. If you're on the FSU side of things, you get chills every time . Look, we get it, you used to be good. Because a team known for orange pants and futility has an infinitely better following than a team with two Stanley Cups in the past 11 years. We've selected the sixteen fandoms that lead the pack, organized into four regions. Even during the darkest days of the Tyrone Willingham era, you could expect to see the Irish on TV. Lane Kiffin abandoning them after dedicated himself to the Volunteers must have really pissed off a fan base that was ready to get back to business in the SEC East. It took place during the alcohol-soaked periods before and after a game against LSU in 2011: Police in West Virginia are looking for a group of people accused of attacking four LSU fans leaving Saturday nights game in Morgantown. You can't deny that in the past, you have been HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE people. No one is pretending the Hoosiers are relevant, though. Texas A&M cares about their football team -- a lot. The snow. But when it comes to getting trashed, that honor goes to the University of Florida. How is "most annoying" graded? This could have been their year for a shot had it not been for the Memphis Tigers. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER. Tennessee Volunteers Dylan Buell via Getty Images The gripe I have with Tennessee is more with their program. Your most feared team in recent memory was helmed by the immortal Rex Grossman. They wear "trojan" helmets and sunglassestwo things that literally do not go together. Being the unofficial college football historian that I am, Ive decided to look at which fans drive the blood pressure up of everybody else in America. There are basically three kinds of Colts fans: die-hards who thought building the Hoosier Dome before you had an actual team was a stroke of GENIUS; Peyton Manning fans who dropped $200 on an authentic jersey in 2005 and dont much feel like switching; and people who know nothing about football and are just attracted by the smell of frying pork. Fan bases and college football are a beautiful marriage. players and those who traveled to see them, "a--hole" directed at opposing fans to obscenities, hurl trash and insults onto the field during close games, lifted a goal post off the turf and threw it into the clearing A&M section of the stadium, A SI fan survey had the Volunteers voted third worst in the SEC, Tuscaloosa police even watched out for certain Florida fans. But, the fact they thought they could poach Mike Gundy from Oklahoma State or get Jon Gruden (dodged a bullet there in hindsight) was ludicrous. It was pretty impressive that this John Elway-constructed team was able to win a Super Bowl with a knock-off version of Peyton Manning assembled from fused vertebrae and a spaghetti noodle for an arm. The Auburn Tigers followed closely in fourth place. The Barstool Sports podcast, Unnecessary Roughness, ranked the 10 most "annoying" fan bases in. Have you won one of those with a quarterback whose financing for his new Benz was, shall we say, murky? Fortunately, since theyre new to this whole winning thing, Seahawks fans havent figured out yet that maybe, just maybe, the whole Russell Wilson-Pete Carroll brain trust had a tinier window than any of them suspected. The Razorbacks claim a spot on this list for a few reasons. the talent head coach Jimbo Fisher is bringing in, The 10 Best Marching Bands in College Football, Ranked, The 10 Worst Heisman Trophy Winners of All Time, Ranked. The Most Annoying College Basketball Fanbase. Since Stoops came to Norman, he has one national title and four appearance there, making him only 25 percent when it comes to the BCS National Championship Game. Here is a full look at the most annoying and irritating fan bases in college. A stroll through the concourses is about as close to spending a night in the Alameda County Jail as anyone should ever get, though at least in jail theres somebody making more than $12 an hour around to protect you. After Bo Pelini started as their new head coach, the Cornhuskers have began to ascend back to the top, attending the Big 12 Championship twice (with two losses) before leaving for the Big Ten. "It's the best time I've had since Week 1 . Even when the team is good, some things never change. And youre going to lose all your games for the rest of the season.. Not every fan base is filled with annoying fans. https://longhornswire.usatoday.com/lists/most-annoying-fanbases-cfb-alabama-ohio-state-texas-longhorns-texas-aggies/, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. "The final four is HERE. To pick the 10 Most Hateable Fan Bases in College Football, I trolled through numerous message boards. LSU Fan points at Opposing Fan: TIGER BAIT!. And if that isn't rude, I don't know what is. Last season was the first time Alabama wasnt involved in the College Football Playoffs. I hope youll still have me for a couch-burning sometime, Mountaineers. When a team is as good as it is, the fans get cocky and they get annoying. It was totally a forward pass. Arizona considers themselves the premier university in its state, and as much as that may not mean much, they certainly like to make a big deal out of it. Most of the fan base living off their glory years, but, hey, maybe they can get back one of these days. Bijan Robinson has met with many teams at the NFL Combine. No, theyre not Texas team -- that one wears burnt orange. Will Alabama repeat? Whatever it is, both Gus and Gary are among the most hated sports announcers today. They found Carroll entertaining. And deep down, you know it too. At the A&M game in Luboock this season, there is evidence that Tech fans vandalized the buses with excrement, shoe polish, and paint. The Phoenix New Times has named "Tribute to Troy" one of the "top 10 most annoying college football fight songs," while a columnist with The Seattle Times once referred to it as "almost as annoying as Nancy Grace ". Its football season! Most Annoying College Football Fans Latest Posts Forums Recent Activity Home Forums 19th Hole Sports Talk Prev 4 of 7 Next MrBlast Well-known member Joined Feb 19, 2021 Messages 1,454 Reaction score 1,282 Location Eastern Iowa Aug 8, 2022 #76 MattyD-MPLS said: Iowa fans holds a special place of not achieving anything and being so proud of it. There are many, many reasons why people hate Ohio State fans. Its important to know all you can on this subject, especially as we start a new year, because fans are your most personal connection to each school: Youre probably not peeing beside Nick Saban at a bar urinal, but you are beside the Bama fan. Was that 2007 team loaded at every position? Not all fan bases are judged the same. Say what you will about the lack of a playoff, but with only two teams out of 120 getting a shot at . Our crack team broke 'em all down, from the NFL's most pleasantly irrelevant fans to the league's most obnoxious. Matt Leinart. The fans start the season off overly aggressive. Notre Dame graduates around 2,000 students a year, yet its influence is so vast, so far-reaching, and so annoying that if an alien were to land his spacecraft on Earth and become a college football fan, hed most likely presume Notre Dame to be our worlds largest educational center. We all know it. All bias aside, you have to tip your cap at anyone who's won 133 straight conference titles. Bet with your head, not over it. Never mind that those certificates are about as valuable as that share of a gold mine you got on a family trip to South Dakota. Ahh, yes, the Texas Longhorns most-bitter rivals. In fact, it's the reason I researched them in the first place. And while you'd think a group of people who are Gator fans on Saturday would be completely intolerable, Jags supporters get all of their annoyingness out during college games; by Sunday, they're content to just come out and enjoy the nice weather, regardless of which former Florida college star is throwing INTs that week. This is what happens: A shitfaced LSU fan stumbles up to Opposing Fan. Except when you start yelling Who Dey." We're talking about the fans who won't shut up about their team's success; the fans who bag on your team to make up for their team's recent loss; the fans who harass visiting fans in the stands; the fans who insist their team will be back one day. History: The 12th man started with E. King Gill, a Texas A&M basketball player who was pulled from the press box to suit up and stand on the sidelines incase his dwindling team needed him. No one is clean. Sure you might have friends who cheer for other teams, but come Saturday that friendship is left at the door. And yet, youremain an industrially jovial, generally adorable bunch full of Labatt Blue and misbehavior, but never hate. Oh, man. For a franchise thats endured a stunning amount of heartbreak and futility on its journey to never winning a Super Bowl, you dont get nearly the amount of misery hype as, say, a Cleveland or a Buffalo. Are you throwing those cups of piss? Every. 11. I don't see Colorado fans as much since we both moved conferences, but I have a soft spot for Ralphie and Boulder is fun when you're not at Folsom Field. The self-proclaimed national champs on social media. Rounding out the top five is Michigan State. Florida barely beats out other worthy competitors like Georgia, Tennessee, and Auburnall of which match kick-ass tailgates with occasional insufferabilityfor three reasons: 1. The main reason Tennessee leads off the list is because of their scuffle with Lane Kiffin last year. Not only do teams contend with fans, but they have to focus while fans are shaking cowbells throughout the game in one of the most unique traditions in college football. THE BROWNS. For me, that's taking it a bit too far. This is going to be the worst loss in Alabama history, and its going to send your program into a (expletive) tailspin, he says. Ever since, Colorado fans have thrown everything from batteries, marshmallows, soda bottles, coins and lemons onto the field. The ABSOLUTE FORWARD PASS in the playoffs in Tennessee in 2000. Their fans are cocky and their band is arrogant looking. They hate letting you know about the historic significance of the Big House. Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. Clemson fans travel well and the whole $2 bill tip thing is "cute." Mississippi State Bulldogs They know they carry the conference on its back, and they're not afraid to let you know. Mention Michigan and you will send them into a frenzy. Notre Dame upholds its traditions like no other. 32. If it goes so far as the school President has to get involved, it has gone too far. They only truly care if the team's good, and yeah, you really get a penalty for doing "Horns Down.". (And youre certainly not going to hear any tears for this ranking from within the state of Michigan.). Lane Kiffin. Its partly articles like this, which make it seem like Notre Dame is a paragon of virtue in college football, but fails to mention, well, that this is college football were talking about. Theres nothing wrong with getting a little rowdy and some trash talk during. For years, the trademark of being a Redskins fan was wearing a pig nose. Yeah, they all win. In fairness, there isn't much to do in Miami other than watch college football. Please check your email for a confirmation. Bad news, Tennessee Vols fans. However, with the talent head coach Jimbo Fisher is bringing in, this all could change very soon. Jags fans are the NFL's least obnoxious fans in large part because they BARELY exist, despite a surprise run to the 2018 AFC Championship Game with none other than Blake Bortles running the show. Will Steve Spurrier coach this season shirtless? You are who you root for. In the early 2000s the USC Trojans were what Alabama is today. LSU Fans = "Most Smack-Talkin' Classless" award. The video above. It also references an injury to Alabama WR Tyrone Prothro, who broke his leg in the Tides 31-3 win over Florida at Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2005. The Aggies and Longhorns are still battling off the field after almost a decade later of not playing each other. The Hoosiers have a beautiful, yet small, home stadium, and when IU is good, it fills out quite nicely. Notre Dame is a proud member of the historic Notre Dame conference. As the standing of being one of the elites faded away, so did the annoying fans, but theyre still around somewhere. Jealousy is a confusing, illogical thing.). You Bears fans like to fancy yourselves as one of Americas proudest sporting traditions, but the cold reality is that outside of one glorious lightning-in-a-bottle year in 1985 that you still cling to with adorable desperateness, you're the major-market Browns. If you find yourself in a conversation with an alum you may also hear half-ironic bragging about the two schools combined 34 national championships. There was even a recent Sprint commercial that poked fun at couch-burning riots. Our crack team broke em all down, from the NFL's most pleasantly irrelevant fans to the league's most obnoxious. Probably because the number of teal seats you see on television is directly proportional to the number of wins the Panthers have that season, and what kind of mood Cam Newton is in. Notice anything similar about those teams up there? You can't blame the richest athletic program in the country located in one of the best college cities and surrounded by a bountiful recruiting base for being bad. Sure, they have a history better than most, but they aren't at that level. Nebraska has as many banners for being the most annoying fan base in college football as the Montreal Canadiens do for all of their Stanley Cups. SEC even though they have accomplished absolutely nothing in the conference. The houndstooth hats. Brigham Young University Cougars. GAINESVILLE, FL SEPTEMBER 17: Florida Gators fans cheer during the game against the North Texas Mean Green at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on September 17, 2016 in Gainesville, Florida. So exciting! College football fans have arguably created some of the most recognized and bizarre ones. Your "new" fans who cant name two players on the defense and come to Sun Life to take selfies at LIV. And, of course, there is the 2007 video up there, which should more or less speak for itself. Feelings about college football fan bases are pretty simple: You don't like any that you're not a part of.
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