Who are some College teams that have a strong fan base with really nothing to show for it ?
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Not sure there's any but us to be honest. Arkansas despite recent hard times has played in numerous major bowls and has won a title. AM has played in major bowls but never won it all. Oregon has played for it all. Now that you say it we honestly might be the only one....even Central Florida made a major bowl.
Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Michigan State (and South Carolina)
I struggle to come up with anyone else. Maybe Texas A&M? They at least claim a few national championships and won a bunch of conference championships in the Southwest Conference. Even Mizzou claims some national championships, has won 15 conference titles, and has played in multiple major bowl games. UCLA? I don't know if their facilities or support is quite on par with ours.
VT had made numerous major bowls and also a BCS championship appearance. Michigan State was just in the playoff a few years back. Wisconsin won the orange bowl a few years ago.
Until recently, the only comparison would be Cubs fans. But they proved with enough $ even they can win it all.
Don't Texas A&M, Wisconsin, VT and Michigan State all have conference championships to show for it? We have jack squat.
service acadamies,az.state,colorado state,there are plenty. Many more if you only go back 25 or 30 yrs
Along with some that have been mentioned, I'd add Texas Tech and maybe Louisville.
Here are the team rankings by average attendance over the past 5 seasons:
1.Michigan
2. Ohio State
3. Alabama
4. Penn State
5. Texas A&M
6. LSU
7. Tennessee
8. Texas
9. UGA
10. Nebraska
11. UF
12. Auburn
13. Oklahoma
14. Notre Dame
15. Clemson
16. South Carolina
17. Wisconsin
18. FSU
Those are the only schools to average 75,000 or more over the past 5 seasons.
1.Michigan
2. Ohio State
3. Alabama
4. Penn State
5. Texas A&M
6. LSU
7. Tennessee
8. Texas
9. UGA
10. Nebraska
11. UF
12. Auburn
13. Oklahoma
14. Notre Dame
15. Clemson
16. South Carolina
17. Wisconsin
18. FSU
Those are the only schools to average 75,000 or more over the past 5 seasons.
THIS ... is why we covet Participation Trophies so greatly. Doesn't matter whether you win or lose ................. IT'S YOUR MOM'S TURN TO DRIVE!!!!
Uh...read his original post. None of tbose have top 25 facilities and play in front of 75k.
Michigan State made the playoffs and Iowa has played in several major bowls.
I can tell you 100% Mizzou has crappy facilities compared to us and their fan support doesn't come close.
SURE! Any group of Fans are going to attend games where their team is winning and playing for National Champeenships. But, to get beat by 20pts, 24pts, 28pts, 21pts and upset by an 11 1/2 point underdog with a freshman QB and 1st year staff AND still have your fans show up without tar & feathers ... well, that really says something.
I’m pretty sure all of those besides USC has been to BCS bowls and/or won national championships.
Texas AM in the early 90s to mid to late 90s probably had more wins than almost any other program. I just remember seemed they were 10-2 and highly ranked for years. I always thought their schedule was so soft but they won ton of games
Damn...reading and actually comprehending is a lost damn art.
Although much of it was long ago, A&M has a rich history. Multiple national championships and more recently numerous conference championships and at least 1 BCS bowl.
South Carolina, Iowa, Okla St, NC State, West Virginia are the ones that come to mind of Schools that draw big crowds and have yet to sustain any prominence in College Football. Texas A&M is slightly ahead of this group. The rest don't have the fan base or Facilities
LoLville gives away thousands of tix every week. I don't know that they've ever had a "sell" out.
I take that back. The Notre Dame game might have been a sellout. But, if you watched the game most of that crowd was ND fans.
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Well, I think we know who is the worst team on that list (past 5 years or otherwise).
We have Top 25 everything except for actual team output: Champ's salary, OC & DC salaries, recruiting classes, etc. Fortunately, we're only a few "critical plays" away from that happening as well.
NC State's facilities and attendance aren't anywhere near ours.
Yep,comparisons to the pre-2016 Cubs and pre-2004 Red Sox seem right.
You mean the West Virginia team that has played in, AND WON, three BCS bowls since 2006, including a 70-33 beatdown of Clemson? Despite that success, they play in a 60,000 seat stadium (smaller than every stadium in the SEC except Vanderbilt).
Their return on fan investment is WAY higher than ours.
Yeah, both had miraculous failures at critical moments...
- The Buckner bumble for the Sox (at least that was the World Series).
- The much more gamecock-esque Bartman incident for the Cubs (NLCS).
Yes, and I'm one of the maroons who didn't read the OP's criteria. My bad.
Still, I'd put Texas Tech in our league. They show up. They support. They never grab the brass ring.
Semper Fi! BTW. I was in the Army. Always good to meet another vet.
No. In 2018 ASU averaged 51,000. Co State averaged 32,000. Carolina averaged 78,500.
This is a good frame of reference. At least there are a few of these in the wilderness with us, one or two even longer than us most recently. But it’s tough road to hoe when you play 5 of the top 15 draws every year, sometimes 6 or even 7 with a bowl. Being a Gamecock is not for the faint of heart.
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