Question about your college fanship

[Biggems]

Pretty much all of us has a favorite team and that team usually has a small group of intense rivalries.

My question to you is this.....Do any of you root for the rivals when they aren't playing your team?

For instance, I am a Longhorns fan. I hate the Sooners, Aggies, and Red Raiders with a passion. In fact, there is no team I hate more than the Sooners, not even USC or Notre Dame. Still, I find myself hoping every Big 12 team goes undefeated in non-Conference games. I find myself rooting for OU when they aren't playing UT, unless I need them to lose.

Why do I do this? Well, OU has a lot of national love by the media and coaches. They are usually pre-ranked pretty high year in and year out. So if they are undefeated when Texas plays them, it looks more impressive if the Horns win. It looks even better if the Sooners end with 1 loss, and UT goes undefeated.

Don't get me wrong, I don't lose any sleep if OU, TT, A&M, or the like lose in a given week.....it brings a smile to my face and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside....dare I say, it warms the cockles of my heart. Still, in the bigger picture, it isnt as grand.

Since there is no playoffs system, you need your rivals to have good records when you beat them so it helps your BCS ranking.


I am just curious if anyone else thinks like me.

 

[Mike_45]

I do somewhat. But I hate UT with a passion. I was born here in Austin, grew up here and only left for a little while before graduating from Texas Tech.

I always will hate and despise UT and OU. The Aggs not so much, maybe that is just because they are not good now. However I was really torn in the Rose Bowl a few years ago, USC vs. UT, I cant stand teams that are from California but I cant stand UT either. So yeah, that was a tortured night.

 

[jimmy40]

I would root for Satan over OU.

 

[Hostile]

Never.

 

[jimmy40]

I would root for Satan over OU.

and I hate Notre Dame even more.

 

[theogt]

It makes sense to do this because it makes your conference look better, which makes your team look better, which raises your teams' ranking.

 

[Yeagermeister]

My team isn't good enough to have rivals. :

 

[NextGenBoys]

Pretty much all of us has a favorite team and that team usually has a small group of intense rivalries.

My question to you is this.....Do any of you root for the rivals when they aren't playing your team?

For instance, I am a Longhorns fan. I hate the Sooners, Aggies, and Red Raiders with a passion. In fact, there is no team I hate more than the Sooners, not even USC or Notre Dame. Still, I find myself hoping every Big 12 team goes undefeated in non-Conference games. I find myself rooting for OU when they aren't playing UT, unless I need them to lose.

Why do I do this? Well, OU has a lot of national love by the media and coaches. They are usually pre-ranked pretty high year in and year out. So if they are undefeated when Texas plays them, it looks more impressive if the Horns win. It looks even better if the Sooners end with 1 loss, and UT goes undefeated.

Don't get me wrong, I don't lose any sleep if OU, TT, A&M, or the like lose in a given week.....it brings a smile to my face and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside....dare I say, it warms the cockles of my heart. Still, in the bigger picture, it isnt as grand.

Since there is no playoffs system, you need your rivals to have good records when you beat them so it helps your BCS ranking.


I am just curious if anyone else thinks like me.

This right here is why NFL is better than college football, and I'm a student at the University of Iowa.

The polls and "style points" are a big hindrance to me as far as college football goes. In the NFL the only thing that matters is winning. Nothing else.

But to answer your question, no...to a degree. Unless they're playing USC, I root for Ohio State to lose every game they play.

But when it comes to Penn St, I'll root for them, same as Michigan.

 

[DIAF]

A lot of SEC fans pull for their rivals when they play out of conference, because SEC fans like to lord it over fans from other conferences because we are superior to them, but not me. I want all of UGA's rivals to lose, lose often, and lose hard. Screw Auburn, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Right in the face.

 

[jcollins28]

I will pull for any other Pac-10 team except U$C. My day was complete today with a UCLA win and a U$C loss.

 

[ZeroClub]

A lot of SEC fans pull for their rivals when they play out of conference, because SEC fans like to lord it over fans from other conferences because we are superior to them, but not me. I want all of UGA's rivals to lose, lose often, and lose hard. Screw Auburn, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Right in the face.

Yeah, I usually pull for rivals when they play out of conference (especially the bowl games).

 

[silverbear]

I would root for Satan over OU.

That makes no sense, OU is Satan's school...

 

[Sarge]

Never.

:signmast: Syracuse fan here. I ALWAYS root for their rivals to lose.

Do you root for the Commanders and Giants when we're not playing them?

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

The only time I root for a rival to win is if it somehow benefits my team.

If a rival is playing another school and if that other school loses it means my team will go to a better bowl game...I will root for the rival.

That is about the only time.

 

[jimmy40]

That makes no sense, OU is Satan's school...

Well I was going to say I wouldn't watch their intrasquad scrimmage.

 

[silverbear]

Well I was going to say I wouldn't watch their intrasquad scrimmage.

Hey, it'd be a Hell of a game...

 

[StarHead69]

The only time I root for a rival to win is if it somehow benefits my team.

If a rival is playing another school and if that other school loses it means my team will go to a better bowl game...I will root for the rival.

That is about the only time.

^^^^^This is the logical answer.^^^^

I "plan" on rooting for the rival team once in a blue moon in these situations, but only if the rivals win means that UT will go to the championship game. Unfortunately, the only time that has happened was when OU beat TT and my Longhorns got shafted anyways.

I simply hate A&M and OU too much to do anything but wish ill on them in every game they play... regardless of the "implications"

p.s. I have always hated Notre Dame, Michigan, and Ohio State as well, but I don't know why... just born with it I guess.

 

[Ren]

I'll usually root for other Big XII team but never OU

 

[Biggems]

:signmast: Syracuse fan here. I ALWAYS root for their rivals to lose.

Do you root for the Commanders and Giants when we're not playing them?

I do root for the Commanders, Giants, and Eagles sometimes. Like if I need one of those teams to win to help out Dallas, I will root for them.

I have always rooted for the Giants when I wouldn't root for the Skins or Eagles. I just always had respect for the organization that gave Tom Landry his start and gave him to us. I rooted for the Giants in all 4 SBs they played in. Conversely, I have rooted against the Eagles in both SBs they played in. I rooted against the Commanders in the 4 SBs they played in during my lifetime. I wasn't alive in the Dolphins perfect season.

Honestly, I haven't really hated the Giants until they got clowns like Jacobs, Pierce, Eli, Shockey, etc....I will say that Aaron Ross is one of my favorite players in the NFL and I also like Hakeem Nicks.

But to answer your question.....week in and week out, I root for everyone in the NFC East, not named the Dallas Cowboys, to lose.....even on their bye week.


The NFL is different than College. You don't need style points or your conference opponents to be rated high for you to get to the Championship game. In the NFL, if you take care of your own business, you make the playoffs and get the opportunity to play your way to a Championship. In college, that is left up to voters, who have obvious bias (such as loving OU way more than UT, even though OU seems to constantly lay a Bowl Game rotten egg, while UT handles their business)....So colleges schedule patsies, run up the score and try to get the best records as possible for themselves and their conferences.

IMO, there should be 120 D-1 college teams, in 10 twelve-team divisions. Every team plays 12 regular season games (4 non, 8 con). The top two teams record-wise in the conference, play for the Conference Championship. The winner goes to the playoffs. The 4 lowest ranked (or teams with the worst record) Conference Champs play in 2 wild card games. The winners of the wild card games go on to the elite 8. The winners move on to the Final Four. The winners move on to the NCAA D-1 Championship Game. This gives us a total of 9 playoff games. The NCAA can use current bowls for the playoffs. 9 games, 9 venues....Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl (Cowboys Stadium), Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Peach Bowl, Alamo Bowl, and two others. Since there would be a playoff system and Conference play would actually determine who makes the playoffs, all the top teams could start playing tougher non-conference games.

My dream Texas schedule

vs the U
at Florida
vs USC
at Penn St.
bye week
vs Baylor
OU (Cowboys Stadium)
vs OSU
at TT
vs Kansas
at Nebraska
vs KSU
at A&M

 

[Biggems]

That makes no sense, OU is Satan's school...

Not even Satan is as evil as the Crimson and Cream