If you ever face off against a Boise State fan, they will have many arguments on why their team deserves a shot at the national title and what conspiracy BCS theories have kept them out of it all these years. 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. Ohio State has a long and storied tradition of being one of the top ranked programs in the country. Reggie Bush. We could probably stop there, since those have even less to do with your politically incorrect mascot than spiked shoulder pads do with the Raiders. Just just stop caring about The. Please. However, only two teams could advance to the "championship". This is going to sound like I'm quoting Yoda, but this is totally true. Feelings about college football fan bases are pretty simple: You don't like any that you're not a part of. Which is fine. 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. Kansas Jayhawks One word: smug. You should. The Auburn Tigers followed closely in fourth place. 2 most arrogant behind the Crimson Tide, which may come as little surprise to those who see the Fighting Irish believing their team is the be-all, end-all in college football. This is what happens: A shitfaced LSU fan stumbles up to Opposing Fan. Last season was the first time Alabama wasnt involved in the College Football Playoffs. Obviously the behavior was committed by a tiny minority of people, but theres a reason why theres not a lot of love for Morgantown elsewhere in the country. Which school though takes the cake, making their fans the meanest, raunchiest, most arrogant people to ever scorch the Earth with their presence? Dan Snyder can throw money at aging superstars until Senatorial term limits get passed, and youll STILL show up to FedExField. Your "new" fans who cant name two players on the defense and come to Sun Life to take selfies at LIV. You see them on social media, in bars and even at the stadiums. Michigan fans rank up this high not because they throw things or are rude at games, but just because they out do us all when it comes to arrogance. And yet, youremain an industrially jovial, generally adorable bunch full of Labatt Blue and misbehavior, but never hate. This is something Deadspins Drew Magary shrewdly pointed outa few months ago. Posted by panhandlebama on 11/23/21 at 10:30 am. Incredibly, there are fans, who are real, who pulled for these people. Now, your lone claim to fame is selling out your stadium by dumping thousands of tickets on StubHub. 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. As long as you dont get screwed by a BS call in the playoffs AGAIN. For media inquiries, contact [emailprotected]. Autzen Stadium has a reputation for being one of the loudest and craziest around. But, hey, at least youve got great crab cakes. (Photo by Rob Foldy/Getty Images). b. Arrogance: Do you refuse to believe other colleges exist in your state? If you're on the FSU side of things, you get chills every time . Sure, your players can blow their hands off on Fourth of July or shoot themselves in the foot at a nightclub, but they do it the Giants way! For years, the trademark of being a Redskins fan was wearing a pig nose. You're both "all in"when it comes fandom -- which is great for jersey and ticket sales -- but its clear which group can handle a 1-4 start and which one keeps annoying everybody at the bar by yelling Who Dat? every two minutes. And since theyve got that nifty metal overhang, you're never gonna get the edge. c. Success and making excuses for illegally gained success: Have you won a few national championships lately? (Yes, I know that it actually came from a group of hard-fighting Civil War soldiers.)). 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. And it's hard to be bothered by a group of people dedicated to an awful franchise that, three years after moving and changing their name to the Ravens, somehow managed to win a Super Bowl. The Oregon Ducks Capture the Best and Worst of College Football - The Atlantic Popular Latest Newsletters Sign In Subscribe Culture The Oregon Ducks Capture the Best and Worst of College. The Volunteers came in fourth, with their bad habit of throwing trash onto the field when things dont go their way. Imagine what it's like to border all four of these states which rank in the top 15 all time in college football wins. 2. Duke fans deservedly get the most venom of any college hoops fan base, but North Carolina isn't exactly filled with humble, "aw shucks" types. (6-foot-3, 205 pounds), and also annoying to play . 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. It's ridiculous to scrutinize another human being who is just there to support his or her team. And, yes, youre the only fanbase in South Florida thats not one losing season away from complete apathy, but most of your old-school fans are middle-aged guys who moved up to Lighthouse Point and Jupiter sometime in the 1990s -- and they're not so obnoxious. 21+: PlayMichigan.com is licensed by the Michigan Gambling Control Board (license #007543). LSU Fans = "Most Smack-Talkin' Classless" award. The official team of the California penal system is a far cry from the renegade outlaws that got them their sociopathic fanbase, but your average Raider fan isnt really as concerned with winning as he is with beating opposing fans with blunt objects. No lie: Ive literally seen guys in Broncos jerseys with police escorts walking through the parking lot at O.co. In 1915, Cornell recalled that he wrote the song in 1903 at the request of the Men's Glee Club . The houndstooth hats. But until Reid can prove he's not Marty Schottenheimer 2.0, you shouldn't get tooexcited. The gripe I have with Tennessee is more with their program. ), and they haven't won a conference title since '98. The University of Texas is one of the premier football universities for top-notch athletes, gaining top recruits year in and year out. Here is a full look at the most annoying and irritating fan bases in college. Bet with your head, not over it. Until Calvin Johnson came along, the only player's jersey you saw Lions fans wear at homegames wasBarry Sanders (even on kids bornafterSanders retired). Say what you will about the barely-filled Hard Rock Stadium on Saturdays, when Miami sniffs relevance, their fans are as heinous as anyone. 1 spot in the polls every year. One thing I found in my research was some LSU fans claiming, with backup, that the fans in Arkansas continued to cheer and "call the hogs" even when an LSU player was injured on the field. The misery that was the 2012 national championship game. Will Ohio State compete? Those wins came when football was one step removed from gladiatorial combat. The way they talk about their team you would think they had won a title more recently than Texas. Notre Dame gave the worst tickets and were entitled. Elsewhere, fans in the Big 12 Conference might need a bar of soap for their mouths as they use the foulest language, according to respondents. Some of the things people do to people they don't even know is insane, even if they are wearing the "wrong" color to your game. What better way to spice things up than to be obnoxious at college football games? Nebraska has as many banners for being the most annoying fan basein college football as the Montreal Canadiens do for all of their Stanley Cups. This is going to be the worst loss in Alabama history, and its going to send your program into a (expletive) tailspin, he says. At the A&M game in Luboock this season, there is evidence that Tech fans vandalized the buses with excrement, shoe polish, and paint. Tennessee. 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. Rama jama. But even Michael Irvin's alma mater must, I believe, make way for a few others at the top. Which Green Bay now collectively pretends never happened. SEC football: Ranking the most loyal fan bases from worst to first Teams SEC Alabama Arkansas Auburn Florida LSU Tennessee Texas A&M ACC Clemson UNC Big Ten Iowa Michigan Michigan St.. The trees, the teabagger, the Nick Saban. To those that didnt make it, try again next year. The model franchise. In fairness, there isn't much to do in Miami other than watch college football. Notre Dame fans bleed Irish gold everywhere and anywhere, and the national media loves Notre Dame like Notre Dame fans love Notre Dame. And so the calls of P-A-T, Pats, Pats, Pats ring out everywhere, and people still head to the town next to the town with the jail outside of Boston to watch their squad cooly go about the Patriots Way of mechanically winning games and refusing to sign beloved veterans because they would like to get paid more for bleeding for this team forever. Let's not mince words. So basically, in half a generation, you'll be the same as Heat fans, and move up a solid eight spots on this list, regardless of whether you ever win another playoff game. Some are respectable, some you didn't know exist and others will hurt your feelings by calling out the coffee stain on your shirt that was a complete accident. Maybe people from Colorado are just mean. The Big Ten owes its national relevance to Ohio State. Your revisionist history of Adam Vinatieris career aside, youre actually a pretty innocuousgroup, mostly because anyone can shut you up just by yelling OMAHA! (Peyton trained you right, didnt he?) Have you won one of those with a quarterback whose financing for his new Benz was, shall we say, murky? Ah, another SEC school. 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. like their rivals Auburn and . Seriously, has anybody outside Arizona ever met an actual Cardinals fan? 4) Alabama Crimson Tide. And couch-burning looks fun. You ARE those jokes. Luckily, she was checked out by doctors and her child was not injured in the attack. You can't deny that in the past, you have been HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE people. The entire disrespectful clip can be seen here. In one fell swoop, the best coach SF has had since Bill Walsh was forced out, everyone on defense retired or moved teams, Kaepernick got Kaepernick-ed out of the league, and --oh, yeah --the team moved to SANTA CLARA, which is about as close to San Francisco as Sacramento. During winning periods, are you at a game wearing a shirt from your decade-old national championship run? 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. And while it was annoying enough to watch Peyton and the Papa hug it out in a synergistic branded orgy, the fanbase is actually pretty solid. There are even reports of vandalism and slashed tires on opposing vehicles in the stadium parking lot. That is completely ridiculous and is the highest among college sports. TEMPE, ARIZONA - JANUARY 2: Members of the Ohio State Buckeyes cheerleading team run out on the field before the start of the game against the Kansas State Wildcats in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on January 2, 2004 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. And then of course we know what happened. A Cotton Bowl victory over the Longhorns most-hated rivals in Oklahoma. I can't say that I have ever had the chance to visit Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, but there are some reports that these fans are some of the craziest in the Big Ten. Darren Rovell's talking point in this week's ranked discussion, a poll to . When Alabama's at the top of the college football world as it has been lately, Tide fans are more content than they are impressed. Sitting at home behind your safe TV doesn't even begin to hide what goes on at some of these stadiums where football is literally the pulse of the student's worlds. How would you rank the most "annoying" fan bases in all of college football. The Miami Hurricanes have fans. 32. Even after those three seasons when they were good, you never got big heads about it. Ignore the hillbilly cracks, because theyre unoriginal and unfunny. But you're still nice Midwesterners, which means you have even fewer issues giving up and jumping on the Packers bandwagon. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. (And theyre now calling for his firing after a disappointing season.). Anyway, each fan base is irritable in one way or another, but here are the nine who are the most annoying. Gerald Riggs. Michigan is the Midwest counterpart to the Texas Longhorns. In about six weeks, the college football season returns and those fans are already getting fired up for the season. The Trojans start off the top 10 of rudest fans and for a good reason. 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. After the students' performance at the 2007 Navy game where they insulted players, midshipmen and families coming to watch their sons, all of whom are going to serve our nation overseas, I think Rutgers needs to put on a few more lectures on how to be nice. What we as the home team may refer to as "spirit" may be plain rude to the opposition, and finding that line between the two is tough in some situations. Come along for the ride! And this is a horrible image. They get up in the faces of Kentucky and Ole Miss fans. Is this FINALLY the year Jason Garrett pulls a Bill Cowher and figures things out? The self-proclaimed national champs on social media. Wisconsin will have to earn just an honorable mention, permanent plaques until after he graduated, caught the attention of the Tuscaloosa police, Deadspins Drew Magary shrewdly pointed out, actually pissed Notre Dame isnt getting more credit, The 10 Most Hateable Fan Bases in College Basketball. Sooner fans are some of the raunchiest and most arrogant out there. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference West division. Look, we get it, you used to be good. The way this broke down was through a series of head to head matchups, and the final four were all in one poll. Nebraska's nose-dive in the early-to-mid. Don't miss a story! The Hoosiers haven't regularly been competitive . . The NFL-level defenses. 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. You just didn't have time to tell them. No matter what they do on the field, they inject themselves into every conversation about the Texas Longhorns. Telling someone youre a Lions fan is basically an extension of telling someone youre from Detroit. Are you throwing those cups of piss? At the following Ohio State-Michigan football game on October 20, 1906, "Carmen Ohio" was published in the program. Good luck at the draft! Spurrier was notorious for running up the scorethe 1995 Georiga game still holds a certain mythic quality in the SEC for poor sportsmanshipand even though he has found admiring fans during his semi-retirement at South Carolina, he was utterly loathed in the 1990s. Not you, Redskins fans! Not every fan base is filled with annoying fans. We may be viewed as the most obnoxious fans but we are some of the most loyal and fanatical fans. Sign up for the Longhorns Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Your beloved Steeler Nation is mostly made up of transplants living in the Sun Belt who are total die-hards but havent been to a Steeler game in Pittsburgh since Three Rivers. Saturday. Hell, theyre not even Houstons team, since THAT team plays in Nashville. Obviously, after Hurricane Katrina,everybodyin America fell in love with the Saints. However, the majority of engagements are pretty translucent as to where that line is and some fanbases just take it too far, most of the time on purpose. Roy K. Miller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. There are so many possibilities. Would the Cowboys have had a snowball's chance in Miami at winning the Super Bowl had Tony Romo not muffed that snap against Seattle? College football has the most passionate fans and the most exciting regular season of any sport. Their fans are regularly arrested after games (don't get me started on the players). Every college football season begins with commentators declaring this year to be the dawg's year. 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. 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. Michigan has a lot of Texas qualities. WVU students have gained a rep for boorishness, and its followed them for years now. Usually. The entire student section can join in on jeers of opposing players and coaches that put the reputation of the university at stake. The Most Annoying College Basketball Fanbase. Matt Leinart. Under Nick Saban, this team is consistently top five in the country. The Hoosiers have a beautiful, yet small, home stadium, and when IU is good, it fills out quite nicely. (Unfortunately, Wisconsin will have to earn just an honorable mention on our list.) They have been gone from the Big 12 for eight years, but they cant go five minutes without mentioning the Longhorns. If you want to spin it as a good thing, at least. Over the years, the Longhorns have acquired a taste for arrogance through their many winning seasons; one unmatched by their rivals in College Station and Lubbock. The rumors are true. bust their way into the top 20. This time, it's personal. Even when the on-field squad has had their occasional adversarial personality (looking at you, Suh), its hard for a fanbase that so thoroughly knows nothing but bad things to muster up much in the way of offensiveness. The Sooners have won the conference every year since 2015. Either way, youre pretty much one Drew Brees retirement away from a return to fan normalcy and a drop waaaay back down this list. Build your customFanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis onAll College Football and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. Notre Dame fans are the No. But your overcompensation for that makes you slightly more obnoxious than those fans, playing the victim card extra hard and going WAY over the top with superfan bravado. Not all fan bases are judged the same. The Top 25 fan bases in college football, right now today are: 25. There are many, many reasons why people hate Ohio State fans. Not because the team is subpar, but because your average season-ticket holder is 84 and stays home after dark or if theres a 10% chance of rain. With success comes attention, with attention comes cockiness, with cockiness comes arrogance, and with arrogance comes rudeness. We all love our teams and will until the end of time. There were the snowballs thrown at the Minnesota Gophers in 2009. I can tell you which college towns may have that George Clooney-esque cloud of smug hovering above their main streets, and which schools have documented cases of students throwing piss. I can find almost no other fans that are as rude and disrespectful as Gator fans. Possibly the most annoying thing about UGA fans though is their optimism. Youre an original NFL franchise, and unlike those classless Jets, you have sophistication! For some reason you are convinced Joe Klecko should be in the Hall of Fame, and Joe Namath should be on Mount Rushmore. LSU takes the top spot on the rudest fans list and it's certainly for a reason: Tiger fans are the rudest, most arrogant people on the face of the planet. According to family members, Marcus Mason was pulled out of the car and beaten. And that's what Bucs fans are: loyal. And you brag about it. And were not just picking on fan bases from other states, either. Who are the most "annoying" fan bases in all of college football? They hold onto the old glory days when Stoops led them to a title or even before that when coach Switzer-led OU. First and foremost, Michigan fans are humble. But to continue to call an Ivy League contest between your two schools The Game when it hasnt justified that description since the Hoover Administration is the height of arrogance. Well send you our daily roundup of all our favorite stories from across the site, from travel to food to shopping to entertainment. Vote below. Tennessee fans take trash talk to another level. Things are not going well. They have the money, the facilities and top recruiting classes so what is the hold up? 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. They like to claim SEC pride while having nothing to do with its success. 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. If you want to find a Buckeyes fan and get under their skin just say Ohio State University. They will quickly add the to it. Mostly due to their TV deal with NBC to have every game on national television. Bad news, Tennessee Vols fans. This i So, hey, carry on with your jerseys-and-jeans Fridays, and maybe send Andrew Luck's doctor a thank you note. 5 Most Celebrated/Annoying College Football Chants: Florida State's Tomahawk Chop. The days of Johnny Manziel are long gone and that was the height of their success. Just getting stories of college football teams/fans that have stayed at a Fiesta Bowl hotel. Never mind the team hasn't made a good draft pick since OK, ever. Why do you have to add the The before Ohio State University? Is it really that important? What song does Ohio State song after games? Despite winning the most Super Bowls of any team in league history, you still have a no-show problem at home games. The fact that my dad is a massive fan, and the knowledge that my calls are going to get screened for a week now. The only people who really believe we're letting Broncos fans off easy at 17 root for the Raiders and Chiefs. They seem to forget losses very easily and instead use that brain space to hold onto wins much too long. 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. You know that King of the Hillepisode where Hank and the gang kinda grudgingly go watchthe Texans practice because its a lot closer than the Cowboys and they figure, hey, its football? In fact, the team that makes its way into Columbus on 9/11 might appear quite high on the list. From a Texas perspective, they arent really relevant to the Longhorns fan base but they can be one of the annoying ones. There is a very clear dividing line of right and wrong, and everyone knows it, and it has been discussed ad nauseum elsewhere. Nebraskas nose-dive in the early-to-mid 2000s was met with much joy around the country as the option-running farm boys finally got a dose of their own medicine. Their fans are cocky and their band is arrogant looking. But at least Raider fans have the damn sense to stay home when their owner makes decades-worth of bad decisions. Or do we dump it onto the the opposing fools who dared to challenge us in our own house? Top 15 most intolerable fan bases in college football. Are you an irredeemable braggart? As SEC faithful, they demonstrate exactly what we would all expect out of that part of the football crazed country, but that fact doesn't excuse their behavior. Reply. The ones with fans that blab, blab, blab about. Their last national title was in 1939 (! It seems for the last several years the UCF Golden Knights fan base injects itself into national championship conversation. Talk to any Bears fan and youll get a sense of thoroughly undeserved self-importance mixed with Italian beef, a few expletives about Jay Cutler, and considering drafting a kicker in the first round. 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. All rights reserved. 3 Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington. Three Super Bowl wins (four appearances in 10 years). 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. Polling college football fans on their least favorite fanbases. However, there are some instances where fans wearing red and white took fandom to the next level. 1 seeds were Tennessee and Florida State, but only one made it to the Final Four. Considering how insufferable you should be having tasted success without paying any dues, you're surprisingly not that bad. The results are cruel so to those of you who make the list, Im sorry but you deserved it. Since the inception of the conference, they have won the conference title more than anyone else by a wide margin. The success. Okay, here we go: Its important to kick things off with a school from the SEC, which easily could have taken 6 or 7 of the 10 spots on this list, if I didnt want to anger 90% of the people below the Mason-Dixon line. 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. There is the recent harassment of Kirk Herbstreit, causing him to move from Columbus to Nashville. They have one of the strongest stadiums and traditions in the nation, but they can and will be crass and rude trying to defend the old days of glory. With the end of the Urban Meyer era, the Gators took a huge slide as Will Muschamp struggled to keep the squad in contention for national titles. Who cares if its good for college football that Notre Dame is No. Oh, man. And as you wade through empty liquor bottles after another home loss, there is a better-than-average chance you wont be able to get into your car because somebody is being beaten up behind it. I even have personal experience with Arkansas fans as A&M played them earlier in Dallas this season. When the memes are flying around social media, the banter between fans has grown bitter, and . The Oklahoma Sooners fan base. Many different factors went into my decision such as fanbase, coaches, marketing, etc. The "U," as they all like to call it, are some crazy football fans for a team that hasn't exactly had any glory since their loss to Ohio State in the 2003 national championship.

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