But I would have to almost completely concur with your list of never, ever pulling for. I also like your list of teams to pull for but would add a couple.

1. UGA, a good tradition like Bama, and Vince was a pretty good coach
2. Nebraska, during the Osbourne days, they were fun to watch
3. Oklahoma, I love me some old wishbone back in the day

But, being a Navy man, and having a team that can beat Wake Forest and never pass the ball EVEN ONCE, gotta love it!!!!!!
So if there was no Bama, but Thank God there is because of all the other heathens out there, I have to Navy!

Michigan simply because I used to like them. Jim Harbaugh was one of my favorite players and a big part of the reason I got into football. Then I would probably have to say South Carolina because I made out with a really hot girl on their dance team in a club a long time ago. Then I lost her number in a drunken stupor and never heard from her again.

I probably wouldn’t follow college football if it wasn’t for Alabama. I was always a casual fan, but I was never a die-hard fan until I experienced my first Alabama game in 2005. Nothing can compare to how I felt after the entire experience and since then Alabama has been and will forever be my first love!

I had been to a few AU games in the past (because I lived right down the street), but the two differences pales in comparison to each other. I don’t think any other college football experience can compare to UA’s.

I’ma just go with the team I like to play with on NCAA and say Oregon…

Unless we’re playing them
1. LSU and/or Georgia
2. Virginia Tech
3. Hard luck 2nd tier teams from BCS Conferences, namely, Oregon State, Texas Tech, Iowa, Michigan State, Clemson and Ga. Tech
4. Non BCS schools with a chip on their shoulder, namely, TCU, (old) Southern Miss, and Fresno State

Who could I never support?
1. Our also-ran rivals in the SEC, specifically Auburn and Tennessee (unless they play a team from #2-6 below).
2. The Big Ten hegemony of Michigan and Ohio State
3. Notre Dame
4. True New England teams: Rutgers, Pitt, UConn, Boston College (unless they play #2-3 above…then I pull for the asteroid).
5. Big 12 teams that never play anyone but demand respect and attention: Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska and/or anyone in the ACC outside of Ga. Tech/Clemson/Va. Tech (esp. Miami and FSU).
6. USC

I too would go with UGA. I pull for them anyways cause I love athens GA.

I respect the mess out of Jo Pa, their tradition, and the way they have ALWAYS done things the right way and played with class. Plus they have the old school, plain-Jane uni’s like we do. I also think it’s cool that the Paterno’s gave so much to the university for the purposes of library funding that they named one after them.

Notre Dame—never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever.

I didn’t really have a choice. My dad is a graduate from UA college of Engineering, and I’ve been told I was rooting for Joey Jones before I was in preschool. I spent 18 years sitting in U2, sec R… I cried the day Tide Pride went up for the north side expansion and my dad had to let our seats go. I don’t remember life before I knew what Alabama football was. When the Bear died I was 5 years old, and to this day I remember sneaking up to watch a television tribute. This team, and this game… they are part of who I am.

So if I had to pick a non-Alabama team because Alabama didn’t exist, I guess it would be the team of the school my dad went to since Alabama wasn’t an option.

I’m so glad my daddy raised me right.

sure, it’s division 2, but still. They have a pretty nice championship tradition. They are in state (well, I live in Florence, so…).

I like UGA, UK, and Ole Miss.

Nationally I once liked Texas A&M because of Coach Bryant. That ended with Fran, but I may return to them now that Fran is gone.

One team in the Big 12 that I pull for because no one respects them is Okie St. I hope they beat Texas.

I also like Army, Navy and Air Force just because of who they are.

going to drop a few notches on some scales here but as someone who grew up Catholic in the deep south amongst a sea of fundamental protestants, I have to admit that I don’t hate ND nearly as much as I should. At least from nonfootball point of view. That said, I have always liked Texas and for some reason I don’t hate USC. Soo….

1. Texas

2. USC

99. Notre Dame

…except I would take Michigan out and put in LSU in that spot. The top 5 are definitely the same.

Ole Miss. My family is one big SEC rivalry including Bama, AU, Miss, and UT. But if it weren’t for The Grove, my grandparents prolly wouldn’t have gotten “it” on and I wouldn’t be here, so I honestly owe Col. Reb my existance.

The only other team I’d root for (and currently do root for) is South Alabama. Since it’s currently my only alma matre with a football team, I wouldn’t have a choice. Plus, the play UcheaT in a couple of years…

But, since I’m currently getting my Masters at Bama, l can only pretend it doesn’t exist until I recieve an email assignment from my professor, like I just did…

I’d pick Nebraska, then Oklahoma- final answer!

And bammer? You big meanie! No Pac 10 means no USC? What the? Who the? Why, bammer? Why?

sidenote: I couldn’t possibly pick Texas. That’s my dad’s team. I never agree with that guy. He’s a card-carrying rich guy! I can’t stand those m-fers. (totally just kidding. on the “can’t stand” comment. a sugar-daddy is all anyone ever needs, right?) besides, I love my mama so much it’s retarded. and she’s a: Big Time Alabama Crimson Tide fan. Always is, always has been, and will always be. for the record bammer: she hates USC football too. she loves the campus and academics though! but will never don a Trojan shirt or cap, drink out of a logo’ed mug, or even put a bumper sticker of ‘SC on anything. she’s superstitious that way, and is way totally not her style. she didn’t even wear the Pepperdine sweatshirt I got her when I attended there. she only wears 49-er gear and ‘Bama gear. doesn’t bother me none though. she still keeps the small statue of Bruce Lee on the mantle in her house that I made for her in 7th grade ceramics class. she loves me so)

I’ll have to go with NC State. My family moved to the Raleigh area when I was 7, and I remember some guy telling me I had to pick a team: UNC or NC State. I have no idea why Duke wasn’t a choice, other than this was a little before Kryzyski took over and I don’t think they were very good at the time, and NCSU had won the basketball title just a few years before in ‘82 or ’83 (and of course, basketball was all they cared about). I picked NC State because their color was red, closest to Alabama. By the time we move back to Alabama 6 years later, my attachment had become so strong that I really wasn’t sure which team I liked more, though I would tell people that if they ever played I’d pull for NCSU in basketball and Bama in football. It didn’t really become clear until my freshman year at UA (‘95) when we actually played NCSU. I wasn’t sure who I’d be pulling until I was in the stadium on game day. I thought it’d be cool to see the NCSU helmets in person for the first time in a while, and it was. But when I looked back at the Alabama team, I knew where my heart was and I’ve never looked back. NC State is probably still my second team, but it’s a very distant second, to the point that I honestly just about don’t care anymore. Other admired teams include Penn State and Oklahoma. And though I’m tired of USC’s current run of success and immunity to NCAA repercussions, for most of my life I’ve thought highly of them. Also, I’ll pretty much always pull for teams wearing red and against teams wearing orange.

On another note, I’m surprised at the love on this thread for Texas. I’ve always seen them as Tennessee west: UT, colors are orange and white, and though traditionally a strong program their main rivals have more championships (and wear crimson). They’re probably tied with Michigan for #4 on my most hated teams list (behind Notre Dame, Auburn, and Tennessee, in that order).

…but it’d probably be one of:

LSU, Georgia Tech, or UAB.

I know a lot of people around here hate LSU, but I’ve always had a great time with their fans and their crowd/stadium completely rocks. Georgia Tech just because I like Atlanta and I’d like to think UAB could get things going if it was only between them an Auburn.

Who knows where he would have ended up if Mama hadn’t called, but wherever he would have gone, it would have been a place where they take football seriously enough that he could have done similar things to what he did at Alabama. Likely there would have been a former coach at said school that had previously won a few championships for Bryant to add to, and it would have had a tradition that he would have made richer. I don’t know what school that would be, but it exists in CFB somewhere!

1) Oklahoma I can them Alabama west. Their people were great when they came to T-Town. They also have tradition and there colors are sweet. Also that time that they beat Texas A & M naked and stole there cloths right after Coach “hold the rope” up and jilted us( not sure if its a urban legend or not but there band played the Alabama fight song after that ass whooping) Lastly that where the flaming Lips are from.

2) LSU I know its a little weird to pull for the corndogs but both of the bands I was in had some really great times down there. Baak Gwai the second one I was in recorded a whole album there and it was some of the best two weeks of my life. They do have asshole fans but “let ye without sin” speaking as someone who has to deal with drunk Alabama fans our shit does in fact stink sometimes. Every fan base has its asshats.

3) Penn state Its like Alabama north. It doesn’t hurt that Jo Pa looks like he’s in the mob and I don’t want to be fitted with concrete Chuck Taylor’s and thrown into the black warrior.

you most likely would not have as much hate for you top 2 as you do now. There really is no honest way to answer that question since the hate between Bama Vs AU/UT runs so deep that it really distorts your perspective (and rightfully so) on this subject.

If the situation were reversed, and AU never existed, I would most likely have been a Bama fan or a Ga Tech fan. I have a lot of strong family ties to Auburn and Bama (grads and ex-players on both sides), so if AU never existed I would most likely be a bama fan by default.

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