Stephen Oh & Aaron Feldstein
AccuScore Analysts

Last week, I went to the Cal-UCLA game expecting the Bears to come into the Rose Bowl and walk out with a convincing victory.  Before the game I had thought Cal was one of the best teams in the country, with DeSean Jackson, one of the best players in the country.  I left the game convinced this season was the spawn of Satan.  I also left the game appalled with UCLA fans.

At halftime I watched as hundreds of fans left the game.  The score was 14-13 Cal.  What person in their right mind would leave a game at halftime, not only that, why would someone leave that early during a good game?

I was so furious I decided to dedicate this week’s 7 in ’07 to the worst fans in college football.  I have scoured the internet, listened to personal accounts, and of course used some of my own personal biased to come up with the sorriest sack of seven in college football.  And I’m not proud of it.

In no particular order:

7) Arizona – There is one thing I hate more than anything in a fan, and that is a fair-weather fan.  While Arizona may have one of the best basketball fans in the country, I have seen first hand the “fair-weatherness” of the Arizona football fan.  I was there in 1998, when the Wildcats had their best season ever, going 12-1, including a victory over Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl.  There was never an empty seat in the house during that season.  In fact, I think they oversold the joint in the student section.  It was so packed, people were standing chest-to-back rather than shoulder-to-shoulder.  Then, I watched for the next four years as the crowds continued to get thinner and thinner.  Student sections had more empty space than people, and no one could care less.  That is intolerable, and things have not changed.  Fair-weathered fans, regardless of my ties, deserve to be on the list.

6) Miami – The Orange Bowl is half empty unless they're playing FSU or UF.  The students don’t go to the games.  The remaining “fans” care more to talk about what Miami used to be rather than what they are now.  Don’t bring up the current state of the team or you might get shanked.  The neighborhood around the Orange Bowl makes The Los Angeles Coliseum’s surrounding area look like the suburbs.

5) Texas – Two words. Cow Bell.  Having Texas come to your stadium is like having a 3-hour migraine.  Then, there’s the incessant arrogance that fills the game as Texas fans rant and rave about how great their state is.  Why is there not this much love for the other Texas schools?  Why don’t I see more Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, TCU, SMU, North Texas, Houston, and so on fans?  Is it because people in Texas are just as much the bandwagon fans as others?  I think so.  The true Texas fans I give props to, but the one’s who cheer for the Longhorns simply because they are the best school in Texas, is why they land on this list.

4) Notre Dame – If there’s one thing I hate more than fair-weather fans, its college football fans who never attended the university.  Notre Dame has a slew of them.  The Irish also have a ton of fans who don’t really know much about football other than Notre Dame used to be really good.  I’ll give you one example, the Irish faithful continue to contend the reason for their struggles this year is Ty Willingham.  Ridiculous.

3) Ohio State – The Buckeyes have a great home-field advantage.  Ohio State fans are faithful, and cheer their team through thick and thin.  They make this list for one reason.  They are the most arrogant group of fans I have ever come into contact with.  Here’s an example of an atypical Ohio State fan:
    
    When God created sports fans he gave some insight, some
    intelligence and others are just the others. The ones who got
    the insight went to THE Ohio State UNIVERSITY because
    they knew a team like the BUCKEYES never rebuilds but
    only reloads. The ones who got intelligence went to THE OHIO
    STATE UIVERSITY or became OSU fans beause (sic)they saw
    the benefit of having a great team with great tradition and as
    a result they became even more intelligent. The rest are like
    Waillele (sic) Sallas and they are just the others, too bad isn't it?

2) USC – It’s not so much the alumni or the students that bother me so much, it’s the fans with no affiliation to the University.  I know, once the team starts to lose, these fans will be gone in a second.  They cheer when they want, they talk trash to opposing teams’ fans, and have an air of arrogance as if they had truly gone to USC.  At the USC-Arizona game, I overheard a fan, after a Mark Sanchez completion, say, “We’ve found our Quarterback.”  I thought that was pretty profound.  The next pass was incomplete, “Bring in Booty!” was over heard.  Ladies and Gentleman your USC fans.

1) UCLA - Last week’s exodus from the Rose Bowl is unpardonable.  I don’t care if it is just a few rotten apples, they represent the Bruins, and they represent poorly.

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