NCAA college football 2015-16: Official thread

Congrats! I hope we can meet you in that bracket after our game tonight!

Ags just scored, 2-0 in the 4th!

Good luck, Carl!

...I hope y'all lose well.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Good luck, Carl!

...I hope y'all lose well.

Quality loss?

Abu5217 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Good luck, Carl!

...I hope y'all lose well.

Quality loss?

GO BEARS

Well, poop. Hell of a game. 14 innings!

It would be really cool if every time the thread gets bumped that it was college football news.

Cal @ Texas set for 6:30 Central time on Fox on September 19.

Oh and to make sure we stay on topic.. that means I can find another BBQ joint for lunch before the game!

Carlbear95 wrote:

Cal @ Texas set for 6:30 Central time on Fox on September 19.

Oh and to make sure we stay on topic.. that means I can find another BBQ joint for lunch before the game!

I already mentioned this, but now that I've been to Franklin, the places in Austin I most want to try are La Barbecue and John Mueller Meat Co.

Fwiw my friend and I stayed at the historic, haunted Driskill Hotel when we were in Austin last week. No poltergeist activity was witnessed.

ESPN is changing up the College Football Crew.

It might be old news, but I didn't know about it.

manta173 wrote:

ESPN is changing up the College Football Crew.

It might be old news, but I didn't know about it.

Some is (kinda) old news, but Mark May being shown the door is a recent development (and far past due, IMO). The new voices/faces are intriguing to me. I don't really know Adnan Virk, but Joey Galloway has been around the sport forever, and Kanell has been doing tons of stuff for tWWL. It will be interesting, to say the least, as to how much of his (Kanell's) Twitter personality makes it onto the show.

Spoiler:

Fed won't like it if it's a lot...

Yeah, I've already read that Kangol doesn't care for the SEC, and possibly A&M in particular. That's no different than Mark May, though. I didn't care for him nor Holtz, and Davis was already promoted to GameDay, so I'm up for them trying a new team.

Knew Holtz was retiring. But good riddance to May too.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Yeah, I've already read that Kangol doesn't care for the SEC, and possibly A&M in particular. That's no different than Mark May, though. I didn't care for him nor Holtz, and Davis was already promoted to GameDay, so I'm up for them trying a new team.

Heh, Kangol... is that Autocorrect or SECFan's nickname?

It's not that he doesn't care for the SEC, he just doesn't play along with the constant lovefest for the conference over at tWWL and will call out some of the cognitive dissonance you see regarding God's Conference. He's also unapologetically a Nole fan on Twitter. I have a feeling he will have to dial it down quite a bit in his new role, although it would be pretty ballsy for ESPN to use the alumni of F Satan U as the troll of the show.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:

Cal @ Texas set for 6:30 Central time on Fox on September 19.

Oh and to make sure we stay on topic.. that means I can find another BBQ joint for lunch before the game!

I already mentioned this, but now that I've been to Franklin, the places in Austin I most want to try are La Barbecue and John Mueller Meat Co.

Fwiw my friend and I stayed at the historic, haunted Driskill Hotel when we were in Austin last week. No poltergeist activity was witnessed.

Even a month ago, most of the hotels close to UT are all sold out or over $400 a night. I've heard Austin is a driving city so probably not a big deal. I hope public transportation on gameday is viable.

We don't have public transportation in Texas. We do have crazy hotel prices on football weekends. Austin is small and walkable, depending on where you stay. I like Hotels.com. You could also rent a car and stay a bit farther out.

Sidewalk fans

I'm sure Fed is proud.

Nice to see Kentucky in the bottom 10. Although that's always been the running joke: Louisville fans went to college, Kentucky fans went to Walmart for a t-shirt.

Surprised to see Northwestern with such a small % of fans as alumni. I get its a pretty small select private school.. but that just means a small numerator in that equation. How is their fan base that big to dilute that number? Does everyone in Chicago root for Northwestern?

Along the same lines, I'm surprised USC (the Pac-12 flavor) isn't on that list of low % of alumni. With no pro-team in Los Angeles, a lot of people love USC. I guess its split because of UCLA being a big presence but personally I know a lot of USC fans who never actually went.

Stele wrote:

Sidewalk fans

I'm sure Fed is proud.

Nice to see Kentucky in the bottom 10. Although that's always been the running joke: Louisville fans went to college, Kentucky fans went to Walmart for a t-shirt.

I've heard that exact joke comparing Aggies and Longhorns!

Duke should be on that list, too, but isn't.

Duke has a lot of fans in North Carolina - those who are part of the ABC crowd (Anyone But Carolina) but weren't smart enough to graduate from high school, much less State. So they pull for the Devils.

No one has ever accidentally rooted for Wake Forest.

Enix wrote:

Duke should be on that list, too, but isn't.

Duke has a lot of fans in North Carolina - those who are part of the ABC crowd (Anyone But Carolina) but weren't smart enough to graduate from high school, much less State. So they pull for the Devils.

No one has ever accidentally rooted for Wake Forest.

That's funny; I haven't read the article, but in the discussion I saw on an Aggie forum about it earlier today, Duke did come up.

The Aggies were very divided as to whether it's better to solely be represented by actual grads or to be a big, successful, popular enough program to have attracted what we call "t-shirt fans".

That's one of the issues I have with college sports (probably because I'm a snobby East Coast elitist): I don't think you should be a College Fan unless you went to the damn school (with some exceptions).

There are a lot of teams I enjoy watching (the NC schools, the SEC, USC when they're good because the band is awesome, rivalry games, etc.). But there's only one school that I'm a fan of, and that's the one which gave me the diploma that sits on the wall behind my monitor. (I think it's there; it's covered with my kids' sh!t.)

There are some exceptions: You can be a fan if you went but didn't finish (college is hard!). You can be a fan if you have immediate family (parents, siblings, spouse, children) who go/went there. In the cases of HBCUs (i.e. the MEAC and the SWAC), you can claim to be a fan because (a) god knows those schools need all the fans they can find, and (b) they have great homecomings and who doesn't like a 3-day party?

But to say IMMA CAROLINA FAN CAUSE THE SKY IS CAROLINA BLUE AND JORDAN HURRRRR DURRR, that's just weird.

TL,DR: You don't want T-shirt fans. They suck.

I pretty much agree 100%, as do Aggies in general - it's more that some are arguing that t-shirt fans are a sign of a successful program, whether they're desirable or not.

It's also fun that many of the most obnoxious, condescending Longhorn fans never attended a single class there, and often have never set foot on their campus. Most of the actual Longhorns I know are cool, good people.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I pretty much agree 100%, as do Aggies in general - it's more that some are arguing that t-shirt fans are a sign of a successful program, whether they're desirable or not.

It's also fun that many of the most obnoxious, condescending Longhorn fans never attended a single class there, and often have never set foot on their campus. Most of the actual Longhorns I know are cool, good people.

Seriously, the end of times may be nigh, because not only do I agree with Fed again, but on a topic in College Football! Replace Longhorns with Gators (or Noles, unfortunately) in the last sentence and it still works quite well.

Enix wrote:

That's one of the issues I have with college sports (probably because I'm a snobby East Coast elitist): I don't think you should be a College Fan unless you went to the damn school (with some exceptions).

There are a lot of teams I enjoy watching (the NC schools, the SEC, USC when they're good because the band is awesome, rivalry games, etc.). But there's only one school that I'm a fan of, and that's the one which gave me the diploma that sits on the wall behind my monitor. (I think it's there; it's covered with my kids' sh!t.)

There are some exceptions: You can be a fan if you went but didn't finish (college is hard!). You can be a fan if you have immediate family (parents, siblings, spouse, children) who go/went there. In the cases of HBCUs (i.e. the MEAC and the SWAC), you can claim to be a fan because (a) god knows those schools need all the fans they can find, and (b) they have great homecomings and who doesn't like a 3-day party?

My family was all Fresno State fans long before any of us kids went there. We grew up going to those games.

*Legion* wrote:

My family was all Fresno State fans long before any of us kids went there. We grew up going to those games.

Agree with this as well. You see this to a great degree in the South. Ironically, I was a big Gators fan until my junior year in HS because they were THE team back then (Miami was just starting their upswing). Of course, with age I came to the light and started pulling for FSU (not Fresno State) when I decided that I wanted to actually go there.

Abu5217 wrote:

FSU (not Fresno State)

Fun fact that no one cares about: Fresno State is not "FSU" anyway. The school's official name is California State University, Fresno, so it is CSU Fresno or CSUF (which doesn't avoid ambiguity as there is a CSU Fullerton).

For athletics, the school is "Fresno State" only, so just "FS", no "FSU".

Ah, I did not know that. I do know that in Maryland they have Frostburg State. Knew a guy who went there, he would always joke about being the "other" FSU.

I think it takes a special level of douchy fans that actually try to keep others out of their little club of fandom. It might be the most obnoxious thing I have ever heard of. It's not far off from gamers calling out fake gamer girls.

And really, if you are a fan of a team from a Power 5 conference (or Notre Dame), you've already sold your soul as far as keeping it about the school. It's just another form of pro sports, whether they pay the players or not. The tickets are expensive, the schools make bank off of selling merchandise, and it is about getting a really good TV deal, which goes far beyond getting your alumni to watch. That's not a bad thing, but I don't see rooting for Kansas as being any different than me rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals or any other pro sports team. When they win or lose, it has the same effect on my life as when any of the other teams I root for do, which is very little. They don't cut me a check based on their new TV deal anymore than Bill Dewitt is sending checks out to Cardinal fans based on their TV deals.

Yep, I went to Kansas, and my time at at Allen field house feeds into how I feel about the team today. But so does going to Busch Stadium when I was a little kid, and listening to Cardinals games on radio in my room as I fell asleep. But I don't begrudge anyone for coming to be fans of either team later or in other ways.