A SI fan survey had the Volunteers voted third worst in the SEC and now more than ever do they have the right to be frustrated. Claiming to be better than a team that just beat you badly is crossing the line in my opinion and arguing with them is impossible. Sign up for the Longhorns Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. So once again Alabama is the best at something. Imagine what it's like to border all four of these states which rank in the top 15 all time in college football wins. Buckeyes have a tendency to yell at other fans (and flip a car or two), which is probably why fans ranked them high on our list. Never mind the team hasn't made a good draft pick since OK, ever. 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? And thats nothing compared to what were going to do to Mark Ingrams knee, the man threatens. 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. Which is fine. Every. Their fans are a byproduct. Last season was the first time Alabama wasnt involved in the College Football Playoffs. Either way, youre pretty much one Drew Brees retirement away from a return to fan normalcy and a drop waaaay back down this list. Your most feared team in recent memory was helmed by the immortal Rex Grossman. Usually there is a group of awful ones that sully the name for the entire group. Ignore the hillbilly cracks, because theyre unoriginal and unfunny. To even brag about this is insanity. Absolutely! For media inquiries, contact [emailprotected]. And if that isn't rude, I don't know what is. They wear "trojan" helmets and sunglassestwo things that literally do not go together. The Auburn Tigers followed closely in fourth place. Florida, man. Gerald Riggs. The Oklahoma Sooners fan base. (A caveat: Winning clean and unclean championships are equally bad. It was frightening. (This also applies to Hampton-Sydney Randolph-Macon and Michigan-Ohio State during the Rich Rodriguez years.) They liked Leinart. Not to be all clichd (and, yes, we can see your eye-rolling now, Iggles fans), but you are a fanbase that booed Santa Claus, cheered when an opposing player got a career-ending neck injury, and threw batteries at the Easter Bunny. Listen, there, Al Bundy of NFL fanbases, at some point you have to stop responding to trash talk from fans from NY/NJ (who take up half your stadium) with 17-0! That was 47 YEARS AGO. 16. The Top 25 fan bases in college football, right now today are: 25. 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. Anyway, each fan base is irritable in one way or another, but here are the nine who are the most annoying. Teams Big 12 Oklahoma SEC Alabama Arkansas Auburn Florida Georgia LSU Tennessee Texas A&M ACC Clemson UNC Big Ten Iowa Michigan. Youre an original NFL franchise, and unlike those classless Jets, you have sophistication! LONDON LAD. In fairness, there isn't much to do in Miami other than watch college football. Why should it matter? The Texas Longhorns ruined their three-peat in 2005. 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. Which Green Bay now collectively pretends never happened. 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. When the memes are flying around social media, the banter between fans has grown bitter, and . But everyone knows you dyed-in-the-wool Pats fans are really just Bruins fans in Bradys clothing. Your "new" fans who cant name two players on the defense and come to Sun Life to take selfies at LIV. Unfortunately, Nick Foles' unbelievable run that culminated in out-dueling Tom Brady in the Super Bowl made you even more insufferable, though it did give the world one of the greatest videos ever captured. LSU Fans = "Most Smack-Talkin' Classless" award. (Oh and that Florida jealousy effect? The Scarlet Knights may be the flagship university in a state that is literally known best for its rude and crazy drivers, but that doesn't excuse them from this list. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. No. How is "most annoying" graded? 1 seeds were Tennessee and Florida State, but only one made it to the Final Four. No, theyre not Americas Team. So, how are these fans engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct? It's ridiculous to scrutinize another human being who is just there to support his or her team. bust their way into the top 20. 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. They havent won a national championship in this century, yet you hear about them frequently. How do you know football is king in Florida? In the early 2000s the USC Trojans were what Alabama is today. At the A&M game in Luboock this season, there is evidence that Tech fans vandalized the buses with excrement, shoe polish, and paint. I read innumerable Bleacher Report articles, which all, strangely, ended up contradicting each other. They have the money, the facilities and top recruiting classes so what is the hold up? The winner (or loser, depending on how you look at it) is Tennessee.. Additionally, they are some of the most defensive people in the country. Nebraska fans do have a lot to be excited about for their future though. Auburn fans aren't what you would expect them to be when it comes to their manners. If all of those other schools are always winning championships, why aren't we? Not a great look. As you can see, both state-of-Michigan Power Five schools proudly(?) NFL The Ohio State Buckeyes Have Been Named "Most Annoying Fan Base" In College Football Ohios Tate 8/08/2019 11:06 AM 9 So Darren Rovell ran this stupid little poll for the haters and the losers of America could feel important. They still totally support Sandusky and will defend him to the grave. These schools can make the. Just just stop caring about The. Please. The SECs elite. 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Why do you have to add the The before Ohio State University? Is it really that important? Ah, Green Bay. Hopefully, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte can be the one to finally figure it out. So, hey, carry on with your jerseys-and-jeans Fridays, and maybe send Andrew Luck's doctor a thank you note. The Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and all of the major college hockey teams in the Boston area all enjoyed more support than the Patriots. We all know it. The Aggies and Longhorns are still battling off the field after almost a decade later of not playing each other. 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. (They have guns.) You know all those jokes people make about Ohio? More like roll it back. Every college football season begins with commentators declaring this year to be the dawg's year. These Tigers are insane and will verbally and physically attack you. Notre Dame fans are the No. Let's not mince words. Theyve been really fucking good for too long. (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. Jacksonville Jaguars. The video above. 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. 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. Things are not going well. Phil Fulmer talked like Tennessee belonged with the blue bloods of the sport. They seem to forget losses very easily and instead use that brain space to hold onto wins much too long. There is the recent harassment of Kirk Herbstreit, causing him to move from Columbus to Nashville. 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. Oh, man. 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. The rumors are true. Have you won one of those with a quarterback whose financing for his new Benz was, shall we say, murky? Sure you might have friends who cheer for other teams, but come Saturday that friendship is left at the door. Remember? Death Valley is known for some of the craziest people every to walk this earth, and if you have ever had the unfortunate encounter to spend a game as the opposing team in Baton Rouge, I am truly sorry. They were winning or in the hunt for the title each and every year. You poor bastards almost won a championship your first season after moving from Houston. So, who are the folks we might invite over to our tailgate, and who are the ones we pray dont sit next to us on an airplane? Top 15 most intolerable fan bases in college football. And there are a lot of them. They shed accusations of cheating as if they are old John Hannah jerseys, even though everyone everywhere knows that Belichick is one of those guys who will cheat even while theyre winning just because it makes him feel clever. The only people who really believe we're letting Broncos fans off easy at 17 root for the Raiders and Chiefs. Kansas is as relevant as ever 7. I can imagine some Jets fans are frustrated, though, given Kevin Cheveldayoff's activity over the past 10 days. Gators fans ranked No. Though fairly offensive, it's highly catchy and annoying. Carolina fans are arrogant, hardly a unique. Under Nick Saban, this team is consistently top five in the country. And that's what Bucs fans are: loyal. 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 Super Bowl quadfecta. Crimson Tide fans take the whole "championship or bust" motif and run with it like a four-year-old on a candy high. And because most of you also wear Creamsicle orange on Saturday, America kinda feels bad for you. Back in the day, the Cornhuskers were the team to beat. The Tuscaloosa police even watched out for certain Florida fans after posting a video online. . If it goes so far as the school President has to get involved, it has gone too far. The Volunteers are the epitome of southern football arrogance. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images). Those losses hurt, and I volunteered to have marshmallows thrown at me because we deserved it. Not every fan base is filled with annoying fans. This is the long and short of it. What song does Ohio State song after games? 5 Most Celebrated/Annoying College Football Chants: Florida State's Tomahawk Chop. From cursing in the stands to throwing garbage on the field, these football fans top our list for worst behavior in the NCAA. And a good rule of thumb: The better the team, the more unpleasant the fans. For years, the trademark of being a Redskins fan was wearing a pig nose. Rounding out the top five is Michigan State. The Buffaloes up in Boulder may have left the Big 12, but their fanbase hasn't gotten any nicer. Build your customFanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis onAll College Football and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. Of course, they do have their much-maligned group of officials to be dealing with. 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. 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. 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. Fair deal for both teams. 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. The fans have learned to be mostly unobtrusive. If you want to spin it as a good thing, at least. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, a team that is always in the national spotlight. According to a 2009 poll done by Sports Illustrated, UCF fans are apparently the rudest in Conference USA. However, only two teams could advance to the "championship". The gripe I have with Tennessee is more with their program. 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. That's exciting. College football has the most passionate fans and the most exciting regular season of any sport. Id like instead to point out a snapshot in time, a vignette, if you will, that should illustrate why West Virginia fans are awful. Well borrow some southern gentility and just say that at least theyre not Alabama fans. 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. Don't miss a story! Some are respectable, some you didn't know exist, and others will hurt your feelings by calling out the coffee stain on your shirt . UT has attended two national Championships since 2005,. 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! From a Texas perspective, they arent really relevant to the Longhorns fan base but they can be one of the annoying ones. Don't get me wrong, I know Colorado beat the Huskers in 2018 and 2019. Reggie Bush. Verne was the worst before him. Finally, its important to note that this list is more or less arbitrary, completely subject to my own whims and still, undoubtedly, bound to earn a few emailed death threats. THE BROWNS. A recent ranking of the worst fan bases in college football went viral on social media. 9. Notre Dame is a proud member of the historic Notre Dame conference. All content herein is intended for audiences 21 years and older. The Miami Hurricanes have fans. Each year the conversation of should Notre Dame join a conference ensues. Nebraska was the powerhouse in the Midwest, recruiting the best to stay the best. This season when the LSU Tigers visited the Mountaineers, there were multiple reports of WVU fans assaulting LSU fans outside the stadium. Arkansas has one of the dumbest cheers in the nation as the "call the hogs." 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. The Buckeyes are the sole reason a team from the midwest has had a shot at a College Football Playoff berth since it began. But as a result, you now have two groups of fans: pre- and post-Katrina. Top 10 Most Hated College Football Programs The Top Ten 1 Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the athletic teams that represent The Ohio State University, named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree, the Ohio Buckeye. A few years back in 2001, after Texas Tech defeated a high ranked Texas A&M team, the fans who rushed the field actually lifted a goal post off the turf and threw it into the clearing A&M section of the stadium. Here is how we see the most annoying fan bases in all of college football. Here are 9 reasons why. The glory days are long gone. Texas fans are annoying because they presume they can land any top coaching candidate because they are who they are. 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. They are some of the most annoying groups of people, but which fan baseis the worst of the lot. Some fans go from bad to worse, claiming that they deserve the No. Now, your lone claim to fame is selling out your stadium by dumping thousands of tickets on StubHub. 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. 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. JEFF ZELEVANSKY/BEST OF SPORT/GETTY IMAGES, slap-fighting in the most viciously friendly manner conceivable, launching yourselves onto tables from high places, using friendly fire to slam Pats fans through other ones, dizzy-batting your heads into the front of buses, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Mississippi State Bulldogs To pick the 10 Most Hateable Fan Bases in College Football, I trolled through numerous message boards. And yet, youremain an industrially jovial, generally adorable bunch full of Labatt Blue and misbehavior, but never hate. 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. But, hey, its a big city, and it's football, and its an excuse to go grill something on a Sunday, so why not? And couch-burning looks fun. As a 49ers fan in the Seattle area, this is definitely true. Wisconsinites are generally some pretty nice people who just go to their football games to "jump around," which I admit is totally worth going. Telling someone youre a Lions fan is basically an extension of telling someone youre from Detroit. The WHY DIDNT THEY REVIEW IT, LARRY? lady. In fact, the team that makes its way into Columbus on 9/11 might appear quite high on the list. As many people know, with alcohol comes cockiness, and with cockiness comes arrogance. 1 worst-behaved football fans in the NCAA and the most arrogant, according to our survey. 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. But on occasion, it's been insufferable. c. Success and making excuses for illegally gained success: Have you won a few national championships lately? Are there specific nicknames dedicated to fans who did not actually go to your school? 18 position. But when it comes to getting trashed, that honor goes to the University of Florida. The Hoosiers haven't regularly been competitive . Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. The urine-filled balloons tossedat the Ohio State band in 2005 (an incident that is, unfortunately, difficult to write about without chuckling, so Im a shithead too, I suppose). Notre Dame fans are the No. 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. Notice anything similar about those teams up there? "I confirm first place goes to The Ohio State," another fan added on social media. But even Michael Irvin's alma mater must, I believe, make way for a few others at the top. According to Rovell, the fanbases most often mentioned were Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Clemson, Michigan and Texas. The Bear Bryant worship. Except when you start yelling Who Dey." 21+: PlayMichigan.com is licensed by the Michigan Gambling Control Board (license #007543). UCF isn't exactly the most storied of college football programs and isn't even in a major conference, so why are their fans so rude? 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. The success. I have been to the dark side of the Internet. Notre Dame gave the worst tickets and were entitled. The quarterbacks named Manuel and Edwards and Brohm and Holcomb and Thad Lewis and one-s-short-of-perfect Losman. 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. It has history, tradition and one of the best programs out there. No matter what they do on the field, they inject themselves into every conversation about the Texas Longhorns. West Virginia is a fine school, and Im told cousin-marrying ceremonies in the state have dropped 20% this year. Theres nothing wrong with getting a little rowdy and some trash talk during. 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. You couldn't say a bad thing about 'em, even in Atlanta! There are some familiar names at the top of the poll, though it likely isn't without. This time, it's personal. When it's not, it's a little wanting. 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. These fans even used to wave Confederate flags at their games. A recent ranking of the worst fan bases in college football went viral on social media. (Kidding, I think.). Who is the most annoying college football announcer? 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. Probably because you recognize that everyone still knows you as the team with orange pants. Your team is better than any other team, just like your city is better than any other city! Thankfully, their fan base doesn't want to talk about it. Make it past the delicious roasted meats, the deliriously hot coeds, and the signs with faux-French to spot someone whos wearing another schools colors? Wellexcept Tennessee. There are even reports of vandalism and slashed tires on opposing vehicles in the stadium parking lot. The State of New Jersey actually asked Rutgers to put on seminars to increase "civility" for students, alumni and faculty. If you thought of 10 things in the world that would make you sit outside for four hours in 110-degree temperatures, none of them would be watching Neil Lomax. But kudos to Cards fans, you spent 18 years getting cooked on Sundays in Sun Devil Stadium as your team earned a whopping one playoff appearance. Never before in the history of sports fair-weather fandom has there been a group as obnoxious as the Pats' fans. With success comes attention, with attention comes cockiness, with cockiness comes arrogance, and with arrogance comes rudeness. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER. "Ohio State fans are absolutely annoying, but the fact that this list doesn't have Michigan and Tennessee is only 5 makes me think whoever made it is on drugs," one fan added. The University of Texas is one of the premier football universities for top-notch athletes, gaining top recruits year in and year out. 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. Now the Bulldogs. Ohio State fans put themselves on a pedestal above the rest. Danielson actually went to Divine Child HS in Dearborn, Mich., which is just 8.7 miles from the city. 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. Ohio State has a long and storied tradition of being one of the top ranked programs in the country. I'm sorry, THE Ohio State fans put themselves on a pedestal above the rest. Apparently the answer is "yes!" Your new domed stadium is one of the loudest in football, probably because every single one of your fans is AT THE GAME. 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. The pristine beaches, sunny weather, food, attractive people and world-renowned nightlife can become stale. Who are the most "annoying" fan bases in all of college football? One thing most, if not all, college football fans admire about Cornhusker fans is their willingness to travel with their team because who would want to be in Nebraska, am I right? Adam Davis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images, RELATED: The 10 Best Marching Bands in College Football, Ranked. 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. Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. (I am also now aware that a certain foul-mouthed BroBible editor lost his football privileges at Miami for an entire year thanks to such a case.). A profanity-laden YouTube video posted by a Florida fan has caught the attention of the Tuscaloosa police. Bijan Robinson has met with many teams at the NFL Combine. 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. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference West division. Say what you will about the barely-filled Hard Rock Stadium on Saturdays, when Miami sniffs relevance, their fans are as heinous as anyone.