Notre Dame upholds its traditions like no other. 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. 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. That wont stop you from busting out the Pittsburgh-ese at the local Steeler bar, though, like you didnt skip town for the first warm-weather job that came around. 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. Three Super Bowl wins (four appearances in 10 years). 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. Those fans are winning titles for their. c. Success and making excuses for illegally gained success: Have you won a few national championships lately? 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. The entire student section can join in on jeers of opposing players and coaches that put the reputation of the university at stake. And out west, theyre just here to party. Never before in the history of sports fair-weather fandom has there been a group as obnoxious as the Pats' fans. Telling someone youre a Lions fan is basically an extension of telling someone youre from Detroit. LT could [Editor's Note: literally do anything illegal] and youd call him a true Giant, because no doubt he did it with class. LONDON LAD. 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. And listen, as a Nebraska fan I know the Cornhuskers are viewed as being stuck in the '90s by college football fans all over the country. 1 0. . 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. Michigan is the Midwest counterpart to the Texas Longhorns. 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. Giants fans arent obnoxious at all! The Seahawks compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference West division. 11Indiana Hoosiers. They will do it at every turn. 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. 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. And, of course, there is the 2007 video up there, which should more or less speak for itself. 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. Bet with your head, not over it. Ignore the hillbilly cracks, because theyre unoriginal and unfunny. Some fans go from bad to worse, claiming that they deserve the No. 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. Mention Michigan and you will send them into a frenzy. Probably because you recognize that everyone still knows you as the team with orange pants. In an era when most schools are striving to join better and more . How do you know football is king in Florida? Its not too surprising, given their reputation for hardcore tailgating and pelting rivals with Mardi Gras beads. Are you throwing those cups of piss? Nothing brings out the dregs of your city like a successful NFL run. Congratulations. 21+: PlayMichigan.com is licensed by the Michigan Gambling Control Board (license #007543). Gill . Your team is better than any other team, just like your city is better than any other city! They will defend Spurrier and Tim Tebow. I have been to the dark side of the Internet. Ah, Green Bay. And that's what Bucs fans are: loyal. There's a question I ask myself on Saturday nights when most of the day's football has been played. And that this insistence on adding The is really a nice example of the overall smugness that Buckeye fans have become famous for? Todd Kirkland/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. And thats nothing compared to what were going to do to Mark Ingrams knee, the man threatens. (A caveat: Winning clean and unclean championships are equally bad. Look, we get it, you used to be good. They did this year due to COVID-19, but likely go back to the way it was. Things are not going well. 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. Was that 2007 team loaded at every position? No one is pretending the Hoosiers are relevant, though. b. Arrogance: Do you refuse to believe other colleges exist in your state? A bracket ran by Unnecessary Roughness, a Barstool Sports podcast, revealed the most "annoying" fan base in the country. Danielson actually went to Divine Child HS in Dearborn, Mich., which is just 8.7 miles from the city. These schools can make the. There's reason for the Silicon Valley bros to snap up luxury boxes after the heist of Jimmy Garoppolo. Your new domed stadium is one of the loudest in football, probably because every single one of your fans is AT THE GAME. Apparently the answer is "yes!" Its football season! Like the other three fan bases we mentioned, Indiana has some of the nicest, most collegial fans in the game. There are even reports of vandalism and slashed tires on opposing vehicles in the stadium parking lot. 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. 2. You might have noticed the hoards of loyal Los Angeles Rams fans who waited patiently while the team won a championship in St. Louis, then packed the Coliseum and turned it into one of the most raucous oh, right. However, if/when they start losing, heaven hath no fury like an Alabama . Usually, when your in-state rivals are some of the rudest in the country, you strive to be some of the friendliest. Photo: Isaiah Hole. Posted by panhandlebama on 11/23/21 at 10:30 am. That's the essence of Eagles fans right there. The video above. Look, whether it started with the Saints or Bengals, no one cares -- its dumb either way. Replies (1) Options Top. Hopefully, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte can be the one to finally figure it out. You poor bastards almost won a championship your first season after moving from Houston. Alabama is a great football university. The Top 25 fan bases in college football, right now today are: 25. The Texas Longhorns fan base consistently feel like this could be their year. Florida coming in at No.15 is actually kind of shocking, to be honest. But until Reid can prove he's not Marty Schottenheimer 2.0, you shouldn't get tooexcited. These are the cream of the obnoxious crop, the Sweet 16 of obnoxious college basketball fans. 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 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 University of Central Florida was a surprise to me too. 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 ". There were the snowballs thrown at the Minnesota Gophers in 2009. Their fans are a byproduct. Bitter, bitter, bitter.). 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. They have been gone from the Big 12 for eight years, but they cant go five minutes without mentioning the Longhorns. So, hey, carry on with your jerseys-and-jeans Fridays, and maybe send Andrew Luck's doctor a thank you note. Here is how we see the most annoying fan bases in all of college football. However, with the talent head coach Jimbo Fisher is bringing in, this all could change very soon. These fans have assimilated sports writers, the media, and the BCS haters. "We should be much higher," one Tennessee fan wrote. 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. With the Sea of Red willing to go anywhere, theyve moved on from annoying fans in the Big 12 to annoying fans in the Big Ten. But, hey, its a big city, and it's football, and its an excuse to go grill something on a Sunday, so why not? In about six weeks, the college football season returns and those fans are already getting fired up for the season. And since you're all just kind of Texans fans by default, nobody gets too worked up about things. Ohio State topped out as the most annoying fans with 33% of the vote with Alabama barely edging out Notre Dame with 28 and 27% respectively. One spent almost 30 years suffering with a team that rarely broke .500 (the Aints!) and was helmed by the likes of Aaron Brooks andBilly Joe Tolliver, while the other only knows the Super Bowl success of the Sean Paytonera. Make no mistake, they are one of the top teams in the country consistently but the SEC elitists, such as Paul Finebaum, dont help matter. 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. Which school though takes the cake, making their fans the meanest, raunchiest, most arrogant people to ever scorch the Earth with their presence? (As a postscript, all the girls they show on TV during the games wear sundresses and are extremely hot, While, here, the streets still smell and everyone is unhappy. The Hoosiers haven't regularly been competitive . Eagles fans are the people who get into fights at an eight-year-old girls' T-ball game, possibly with an eight-year-old girl. That's exciting. So exciting! Since moving to Austin, I've softened my view. Things should only improve in Las Vegas. Sooner fans are some of the raunchiest and most arrogant out there. Well borrow some southern gentility and just say that at least theyre not Alabama fans. Even when the team is good, some things never change. Wisconsin does rank up there with schools where parties take priority to studying, but being rude to other fans is classless. 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. Here are my (probably unfair) picks for the most annoying fan bases in college basketball. About time. There are some familiar names at the top of the poll, though it likely isn't without. Because while some fanbases are pretty unobjectionable -- and, therefore, people you could actually see yourself being friends with -- others you make a point to avoid from Saturday night until Monday morning. 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. In this case though, the Tigers did the opposite: The War Eagles strive to be even more aggressively arrogant and rude than their Crimson Tide brothers across the state. For me as a football player, even seeing an opposing teammate fall down injured was horrible, especially if it looked bad. 9. Not you, Redskins fans! Why do you have to add the The before Ohio State University? Is it really that important? Point is, football is supposed to be fun, and you lovable, thick-torsoed goons know how to have it. Teams Big 12 Oklahoma SEC Alabama Arkansas Auburn Florida Georgia LSU Tennessee Texas A&M ACC Clemson UNC Big Ten Iowa Michigan. The Aggies and Longhorns are still battling off the field after almost a decade later of not playing each other. Every one of us has a choice, however, on how to direct our passion. From cursing in the stands to throwing garbage on the field, these football fans top our list for worst behavior in the NCAA. Your team plays in a soccer stadium in Carson, where your evil owner relocated after he couldn't swindle the taxpayers of San Diego into buying him a brand-new stadium. Oh, one more thing. The worst part is Buckeye fans know this. And despite a relatively futile past dotted with greatness (Steve Bartkowski. Who are the most "annoying" fan bases in all of college football? Nebraska fans do have a lot to be excited about for their future though. Brigham Young University Cougars. As you can see, both state-of-Michigan Power Five schools proudly(?) They hate letting you know about the historic significance of the Big House. A profanity-laden YouTube video posted by a Florida fan has caught the attention of the Tuscaloosa police. The insane ones are naturally a bit arrogant and that "we're better than you are" attitude can be especially rude. How is "most annoying" graded? I have been to a lot of college football games in my few short years of actually paying attention, but I have almost never seen something so rude and obnoxious. Search: 10 Most Obnoxious College Alumni Bases. No, theyre not Texas team -- that one wears burnt orange. Wellexcept Tennessee. This is going to be the worst loss in Alabama history, and its going to send your program into a (expletive) tailspin, he says. Your team is a national championship game shoe-in and probably won't drop a game for the next 20 years. 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. According to the Morgantown Police Department, the fight began as the fans were trying to leave the parking lot at Milan Puskar Stadium. Most fans suffer from a superiority complex, while others drink too much, use foul language or trash their stadium. 5 on the worst-behaved list for their boozy antics. The first but certainly not the last SEC team on this list, Ole Miss fans can be some of the rudest out there. As the standing of being one of the elites faded away, so did the annoying fans, but theyre still around somewhere. This is what happens: A shitfaced LSU fan stumbles up to Opposing Fan. 18 position. So once again Alabama is the best at something. For years, the trademark of being a Redskins fan was wearing a pig nose. Don't get me wrong, I know Colorado beat the Huskers in 2018 and 2019. They cringe at telling you the school's academics are some of the best in the country. Considering that MSU is one of the better party schools in the nation, similar to Big Ten rival Wisconsin, their high ranking shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Even SEC fans, some of the most passionate in the world, voted LSU the worst hosts for football games. Feelings about college football fan bases are pretty simple: You don't like any that you're not a part of. Usually. From afar, Texas was my most hated college football program. 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. Anyway, each fan base is irritable in one way or another, but here are the nine who are the most annoying. College football has the most passionate fans and the most exciting regular season of any sport. The reigning Big Ten Conference champion Wolverines are seventh, while Michigan State lingers in the No. The Buckeyes are the sole reason a team from the midwest has had a shot at a College Football Playoff berth since it began. Now the Bulldogs. The point of all that was to show that even though Arizona doesn't have a lot to be cocky about, they managed to draw national attention to themselves with their conduct at the Iowa game. Will Steve Spurrier coach this season shirtless? (They have guns.) 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. 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. As a college football fan, the "high and mighty" attitude gets to me more than anything. Fuck that. The only people who really believe we're letting Broncos fans off easy at 17 root for the Raiders and Chiefs. 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?) Other fan bases are guilty of this, but the Jayhawks fans are a perfect storm of smug. The Miami Hurricanes have fans. Theyll come to your town, theyll help you party it down and theyll make your ears bleed with chants of Go Big Red and Husker Power. According to the latest voting results, Alabama, Ohio State, Tennessee and Texas are the four most. It's particularly telling that immediately after winning a playoff game in the most ridiculous way possible, and movingjussssssta little too quickly to trademark "Minneapolis Miracle" so the owners could rake it in from the gullible wallets of a people used to losing, your team went and crapped the bed against Nick Foles and the Eagles, costing you the first home Super Bowl in history. ouirpsu Aug 7, 2019 ouirpsu Well-Known Member Jan 24, 2018 1,768 1,748 1 North Carolina Aug 7, 2019 #1 .based on some dude named Darren Rovell. And finally, its partly the fans, who pretended the Irish still mattered for many years when they didnt, and who now are actually pissed Notre Dame isnt getting more credit for its successes last season. Back in the day, the Cornhuskers were the team to beat. 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. Why should it matter? In 1915, Cornell recalled that he wrote the song in 1903 at the request of the Men's Glee Club . It helps that the team is good now, but Angelenos don't really care much about professional football, which makes any LA Rams fan annoying in a slightly different way. Following in the No. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of debating with this list. UT has attended two national Championships since 2005,. Wisconsinites are generally some pretty nice people who just go to their football games to "jump around," which I admit is totally worth going. A Cotton Bowl victory over the Longhorns most-hated rivals in Oklahoma. And, oh look, now hes vomiting on your shoe. Mississippi State Bulldogs "The final four is HERE. 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. All College Football news fromFanSided Daily, Big 12 Football: The good, bad and ugly of bringing back title game, Notre Dame Football: Brandon Wimbush can lead Irish back to the top, Building Best All-Time College Football Team, 5 Surprise 2017 college football conference title contenders, Braun Strowman Disrupts Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe Contenders Match on WWE Raw, College Football: 2017 Jim Thorpe Award watch list announced, College Football: 2017 Bronco Nagurski Trophy watch list revealed. And the response is generally the same: People just feel kind of bad for you and want to tell you that everythings going to be OK, even though they know they cant say thatwith any confidence. 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. Imagine what it's like to border all four of these states which rank in the top 15 all time in college football wins. We also ranked the top five most arrogant fan bases in the NCAA. Then toss in Alabama and Auburn as yearly rivals and you have the recipe for the most delusional fan base in the country. 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. The Big Ten owes its national relevance to Ohio State. Many different factors went into my decision such as fanbase, coaches, marketing, etc. The Most Annoying College Basketball Fanbase. 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. We all love our teams and will until the end of time. Jed York now has a state-of-the-art stadium perfect for the terrible tech class, who go to the games for upscale chef-driven sandwiches and craft beers and the ability to charge your phone at different docking stations, and could give two shits about the product on the field because none of youare actually from San Francisco anyway. 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. Had this ranking been done 5-6 years ago, theyd be much higher on the list. Alabama is not difficult to hate. They fight over recruiting and that at least gives this rivalry life in hopes that they will once again play each other. 16. Id like to rewind to the year 1993, when everyone was convinced the Pats would move to St. Louis and become the Stallions, and most Boston people COULDNT CARE LESS. 2 Legit 2 Quit. But even Michael Irvin's alma mater must, I believe, make way for a few others at the top. Now comes time for some self deprecation. I don't know what it takes to make a fanbase want to prolong the inevitable with fake penalties, but that has to be something pretty strong. For more information, please read our Legal Disclaimer. Right now there are at least 50 people in San Quentin Prison for something they did after a Raiders game. And out west, theyre just here to party. Have you won one of those with a quarterback whose financing for his new Benz was, shall we say, murky? (This also applies to Hampton-Sydney Randolph-Macon and Michigan-Ohio State during the Rich Rodriguez years.) 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. 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. The fucking toilet paper rolls. Rama jama. Saturday. Copyright 2008-2023 BroBible. Rounding out the top five is Michigan State. They just enjoy spite and hatefulness for the sake of spite and hatefulness. The Hoosiers have a beautiful, yet small, home stadium, and when IU is good, it fills out quite nicely. There are so many possibilities. Crimson Tide fans take the whole "championship or bust" motif and run with it like a four-year-old on a candy high. SEC even though they have accomplished absolutely nothing in the conference. And a good rule of thumb: The better the team, the more unpleasant the fans. No one is clean. Either way, youre pretty much one Drew Brees retirement away from a return to fan normalcy and a drop waaaay back down this list. 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. Cowboys fans used to say Texas Stadium had a hole up top because God loved watching the Cowboys, but isn'tdeclaring God a fan of YOUR team pretty much the pinnacle of obnoxious? Sign up for the Longhorns Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. But you know who is? All that being said The unofficial motto, Win or lose, we still booze, is fantastic. The worst part? As for Tebow Could you at least have saved the permanent plaques until after he graduated? Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach of all time. Incredibly, there are fans, who are real, who pulled for these people. Additionally, Lane Kiffin and the attitude of rich southern California just tops off this special kind of arrogance. And couch-burning looks fun. Michigan fans who didnt actually go to Michigan have earned the rather hilarious nickname Walmart Wolverines. Its difficult for me to really muster up hate for people who pair jorts and Michigan gear so well, so in lieu of actually explaining why people do hate said WWs, here are some pictures from the nicknames official Tumblr: Pete Carroll. Congrats to the University of Alabama, you are once again No. Well send you our daily roundup of all our favorite stories from across the site, from travel to food to shopping to entertainment. Rounding out the top five is Michigan State. Classless doesn't even begin to describe this university and I can not express how disgusting and disgraceful that is to the rest of college football fans. Notre Dame fans are the No. If you're on the FSU side of things, you get chills every time . GLENDALE, AZ - DECEMBER 31: Ohio State Buckeyes fans watch warm ups prior to the 2016 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl against the Clemson Tigers at University of Phoenix Stadium on December 31, 2016 in Glendale, Arizona. From graveyards to cowbells to $2 bills, here's a look at eight of college football's strangest. The Sooners have won the conference every year since 2015. Additionally, they are some of the most defensive people in the country. Back to top. This is something Deadspins Drew Magary shrewdly pointed outa few months ago. Use the link and choose the special bonus when depositing. When they werent sure if the Big Ten would play, they wanted to put an asterisk on the CFP this year. The Trojans start off the top 10 of rudest fans and for a good reason. 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. And there are a lot of them. To determine the rowdiest fans, we surveyed more than 2,000 NCAA football fans across the country and asked them to rate the behavior of every fan base in each of the Power Five conferences (SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and ACC) along with independent teams. The snow. Now, I'm not saying that all Buckeye fans are crass and vulgar, but this video some Michigan fans posted back in 2002 pretty much says it all. Theres your fanbase. Bijan Robinson has met with many teams at the NFL Combine.