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re: The Most Loyal Fan Bases in the SEC, ranked 1 through 16
Posted on 5/6/26 at 9:22 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 5/6/26 at 9:22 pm to SidewalkTiger
quote:Their fans will admit as much. But it's who they are. Football smack talk aside they're good people.
Perhaps this is the reason for their struggles.
Blind loyalty often leads to a bad product. If fans will show up regardless, then there's no motivation by the AD to actually put good teams on the field.
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Posted on 5/6/26 at 9:26 pm to Old School Tex
The goobers of Texas A&M are the most loyal fanbase, and it isn’t particularly close.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 11:36 pm to The Winner
Texas at 3?. Ha!!!!!!
probably the top front runner fanbase in America.
Football and basketball are literally DEAD unless you have a top 10 team, and baseball is inexplicably average despite having a team that usually IS top 10.
I'd rank Texas maybe 13, and thats generous.
probably the top front runner fanbase in America.
Football and basketball are literally DEAD unless you have a top 10 team, and baseball is inexplicably average despite having a team that usually IS top 10.
I'd rank Texas maybe 13, and thats generous.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 2:32 am to Old School Tex
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My understanding is that Vanderbilt has gotten a pass for football over the years since Vanderbilt is essentially a Southern Ivy League school.
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Early football was dominated by the PRIVATE schools, and they dominated Pre World War II college football. There would be no SIAA, no SoCon, no SEC, and no ACC without Dr Dudley at Vanderbilt. Why do you think the Dores whipped the cow town in austin when most of the games were in Texas.
Since modern Vanderbilt draws a global student body most of their modern fans are the employees and their families that live in, and around Nashville.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:43 am to Old School Tex
Texas A&M without any question is not even an argument at all who is most loyal, not best fanbase clear distinction(Never has a school done so very little, yet fans still believe..it is unlike anything in sports..their fanbase is as homer as it gets.) Their Football team disappoints yearly, yet they stay, and believe...next year!
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:45 am to Soonerd78
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How much is that Texas education worth ? Not a bucket of piss . You have teams that can’t sale out their stadiums ahead of teams that have sold out their stadiums for record years ….. OU is obviously low becuase your a Longhorn fan but some of your other decisions makes me think you decided to throw a list together off what you thought rather than what makes a fan base loyal lol.
Chill out a bit dude, OK, ha… My dad grew up in Oklahoma and I like y’all’s state. I did not write the list - I just happened to see it when scrolling on Facebook and thought it would spark debate, so posted the link to SEC Rant solely for entertainment value…
I know Oklahoma fans are loyal, and I have watched many losing games to Oklahoma. Even Oklahoma little old ladies shoot the finger at our player buses when they arrive at the Cotton Bowl for the Red River Shootout each year…
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:58 am to geoag58
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Many Ag's think our loyalty works against us. We sell out the biggest stadium in the league and don't leave even though we lose the games that really count. So the big money guys look at that and don't have to make the necessary changes. I think an empty stadium sends an important and sometimes necessary message. I think that is why LSU and tu will be down for a year or two and then come back and win it all.
Loyalty is a great trait in friends and family members. I agree with you that fan blind loyalty is not the best way to develop a winning football program.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like UT joining the SEC will be good for the aggie football program. Both of our fanbases absolutely hate losing to each other, and an AD who consistently loses to their in state rival is not going to keep their position forever.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:13 am to Old School Tex
Well to be fair OU is one of the most successf CFB programs ever, so sympathy for them I will pass..they will be fine. Just need to figure out the new CFB(as do a few schools like us and USCw)
This post was edited on 5/7/26 at 10:11 am
Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:00 am to Old School Tex
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I’ve driven through Missouri a number of times, and have had good BBQ in St.Louis. A lot of interesting history in Missouri. Y’all get a lot of crap on this Board for being Yankees, but you don’t really seem like Yankees to me. Is Missouri the only SEC state with legal weed? Does that mean y’all are less of a nanny state than your SEC counterpart states?
What makes Missouri interesting is we are definitely the closest thing to a melting pot there is. We've got Yankees, Rebs, and everything in between.
Back to the loyalty question....people are over thinking it. Supporting the programs come in many different ways from butts in seats, donations, and in my opinion most relevant, is cheering for the team to perform no matter what. Missouri has a lot more options than some of the other fan bases on where they spend their dollars. Chiefs, Royals, Cardinals, Blues, Soccer, and Nascar just across the state line. If all you have is College Football it makes it a lot easier to generate fan support.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:30 am to Old School Tex
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I know Oklahoma fans are loyal, and I have watched many losing games to Oklahoma. Even Oklahoma little old ladies shoot the finger at our player buses when they arrive at the Cotton Bowl for the Red River Shootout each year…
Tom Herman got a lot of mileage out the "Little old OU lady" shooting the double bird story...
And I loved how he used it to explain away that time he got caught shooting the double bird to the camera when they went live one time on the Longhorn network...
After that aired he claimed he was telling the Little Old OU lady story to the other guys on set when the cameras went on.
This post was edited on 5/7/26 at 8:16 am
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:23 pm to Old School Tex
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This post was edited on 5/8/26 at 1:29 am
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:56 pm to Old School Tex
Walk a few decades in some maroon adidas State shoes & then get back to me
Posted on 5/8/26 at 4:21 am to Gunga Din
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And I loved how he used it to explain away that time he got caught shooting the double bird to the camera when they went live one time on the Longhorn network...
Tom Herman’s Jr. High behavior eventually caught up with him, ha…
But we would have tolerated a lot for a better win / loss percentage from Herman’s teams…
Posted on 5/8/26 at 5:28 am to MikeAV8s
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I don’t doubt that at all. But you didn’t see all the toothless sidewalk fans, they had disappeared. And that’s a fact.
It's true. I grew up in Alabama. They have a pretty loyal core group of fans. But they also have, by far, the biggest group of front running, bandwagon riding, sidewalk fans in the country. When they aren't doing well those people vanish like a fart in the wind.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 8:56 am to SidewalkTiger
Yeah…exactly dumbass. T-shirt fans like you Sidewalk, are plenty mouthy..but you don’t count. Full stadiums and donations, are indeed, measures of school loyalty. How much money do you actually donate to LSU? If the answer is zero, or a pitifully small amount, then you really need to STFU.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:29 am to Old School Tex
Posted on 5/8/26 at 9:37 am to Old School Tex
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Tom Herman’s Jr. High behavior eventually caught up with him, ha…
I always wondered what actually happened on that set... because it was strange. That being said... he certainly COULD have actually been telling that story... because usually it takes some serious provocation to flip the double bird. LOL.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 10:31 am to Old School Tex
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13. Missouri
We sellout a stadium and have spent three quarters of a billion dollars on the football program in the past decade for a team that hasn't won a conference championship since the 1960s. I doubt there are 12 more loyal fanbases in the whole country.
Posted on 5/8/26 at 10:32 am to BreakawayZou83
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We sellout a stadium and have spent three quarters of a billion dollars on the football program in the past decade for a team that hasn't won a conference championship since the 1960s
Big Whoop.
So does South Carolina and they've NEVER won ANYTHING.
Oh, and Willy B seats close to 20K more people than Memorial Stadium.
This post was edited on 5/8/26 at 10:34 am
Posted on 5/8/26 at 10:34 am to Lonnie Utah
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So does South Carolina and they've NEVER won ANYTHING.
South Carolina is the clear #1 on this list. I'd put Texas A&M #2. Then pick any historic loser like Mizzou or Mississippi State who show up anyway, knowing their team is likely to lose by 30+ to the big dogs.
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