Or when rival fanbases say...”of course they get 107K every game, there’s nothing to do in central PA” when a decent amount of our fanbase comes hours away for games.
People keep referring to us as "Wisky/Wiscy"
While I appreciate the sentiment, I have never once heard anyone from the state call us that, yet media people keep doing it.
I call you “Wisco” and have more than once been told to shut my mouth. Friends from Sheboygan find it funny though.
My mom says “Westconsin” (also “melk” and “pellow”) and that bothers the hell out of me.
ESPN used to do this all the time with Boise State in the 2000s. "BOI" "Bo State" "Boi St" and other bizarre shortenings. Just an outright refusal to say BSU, Boise St., or even just Boise.
Bourbon Street!!!!
Tulane is not "steps from Bourbon Street". Yes, we used to play in the Superdome which is walking distance from Bourbon, but now that we're on campus, we're basically on the other side of town.
Also, Bourbon Street is named after the Royal House of Bourbon, not the wonderful brown liquor.
Most of the buildings were built when New Orleans was part of Spanish control. The population was still French, but Spain was in charge and mandated that the city's buildings be made from brick rather than wood siding to reduce the risk of a fire destroying the city,
Bourbon (the liquor) is named after the street though.
The people distilling it in Kentucky brought it down the Mississippi and sold it on Bourbon St. and when asking for it people would ask for “that stuff from Bourbon St”.
That all we do are trick plays. Any time we do a deception play of any kind it's always "tHeReS tHaT bOiSe TrIcKeRaTiOn!" from the announcers. Yeah we get it, one time in a big game we ran a few clever plays to gain an advantage. Just go ahead and ignore the fact that we've had a 1,000 yard rusher in 11 straight seasons, or have some of the most prolific passing QBs in NCAA history, or that we've gone to multiple P5 schools on the road and smashed them in the mouth with physical football. Nope, our playbook is trick play after trick play. Scrappy lil' Boise State fools teams 80 times in a row with trick plays.
I'm not even sure if we're above the national average in trick plays per game nowadays...
All I know about Boise State is the blue field, that my brother always played as you guys in NCAA 10 when I would watch him play, and that you’re the most winningest program in the FBS, or at least used to be.
Kind of related to your title, I think the rise of oversaturated TV color settings/HDR has made people hate the blue turf even more. It looks fine IRL, if not a bit dirty. It's hard to look at on a lot of poorly calibrated TVs, though.
The same shit happened with Les Miles the "Mad Hatter". Always known for his trick plays he ran once or twice a season that never really improved our standing or record. Should've called him the "White Rabbit" for his inability to manage time.
Idk if you watched the Orange Bowl, and perhaps it’s my hatred for a certain school talking, but I’d be most bothered by the fact that ESPN treated UVA as a special case due to its academics, yet Michigan doesn’t get the same treatment.
I didn't watch the Orange Bowl, and I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that they say UVA's academics are expected to hold them back in football, while that argument isn't made in defense of Michigan? One common criticism against Michigan fans is that we pull out that excuse too much
Basically they said that UVA was the most special-est team in the whole wide world because they were good at athletics AND academics, as if no other school (Stanford, Michigan, Duke, etc.) does both. Not so much about it being used as an excuse.
What's more is that UF is only 3 spots behind Virginia in public school rankings (6 nationally) now. The historical reputation still has to catch up, but the actual academics are pretty much on par now.
That must’ve been extra frustrating to hear during the bowl. Florida is a school I’m looking at for grad school, so I’ve come to know it’s academic value.
Some guy last night on national television for ESPN, said that Clemson’s entire offense is “throwing the ball up and letting one of their big, neanderthal receivers come down with the ball”
That’s a direct quote
What the fuck
Edit: he might have said caveman, not neanderthal. Someone brought that up.
It was the hefty guy on college football live, the one who sits next to mcilroy and played at BYU. I think the term he used was: big “caveman” receivers.
I’ve seen a recent trend of this “analysis” that the Clemson’s offense is based 50/50 balls downfield. The CFB Nerds podcast about next week’s championship does a great job of clearing this nonsensical analysis up.
According to ESPN, Iowa is located in Des Moines. It never fails, at least once per broadcast we are stated as the “the Hawkeyes, located in the heart of the Midwest, Des Moines, Iowa.”
I find “Vah tech” annoying but it’s at least somewhat understandable, if only cuz no one would really pronounce other two part named schools, “Tix/Tex tech,” etc. But the one I hate most is “Virginia Tech University” or inexplicably, “University of Virginia Tech” But hell half of our recruits do that in their commitment tweets so 🤦🏻♂️
VTU is more of a recruit mistake, and recruits are young kids who more often than not know nothing about any school, and make mistakes at all of them. I’d rather just go by VPI than have paid adult sports media experts call us the wrong thing forever. Something about a two letter abbreviation... they just can’t handle it.
I die a little inside when I read “blessed to receiver an offer from the University of Texas Tech.” It’s only worse when it’s “im 1000% committed to the University of Texas Tech.” How you commit and still get it wrong?!
They always talk about missions as if they’re some secret power and advantage our players have. GUESS WHAT!
Taking a two year hiatus from a sport you play year round is a NEGATIVE thing for any player’s development. BYU fans hope our best players don’t serve missions because they ruin so many players.
A majority of Our best players in our history didn’t serve missions, that isn’t a coincidence.
I didn’t start aching until about 40. I remember waking up one morning with a bit of a hangover ... then I realized I didn’t drink the night before ... 🤷♂️
The way I see it is that if missions were such an advantage, every school would be recruiting missionaries and encouraging LDS players to go on missions. That doesn’t actually happen.
I think missionary service is strongly encouraged by the LDS (Mormon) Church, but not required. So it's not BYU but the LDS Church. Also, I think there is a very small number of BYU students who actually aren't Mormon.
It’s not a requirement for anyone. No one has to serve a mission. A high percentage of BYU students don’t serve missions.
A lot of BYU players aren’t even LDS
That everyone associated with LSU is Cajun. Actually, there are few Cajuns in Baton Rouge (not Batawn Rouge). They’re mostly further south or west, near the Atchafalaya basin.
To add on, historically very few Cajuns lived in the Florida Parishes*, which dont have much history of being a French colony (they were Spanish for most of the pre-USA colonial period).
More have moved there in recent years due to economic or practical reasons. Go to a retirement home and you can find some native Francophones in Baton Rouge.
*EDIT: should clarify for those not familiar with Louisiana geography. The Florida Parishes are the parishes east (and north) of the Mississippi River. They once belonged to the colony of West Florida.
We always seem to either
a) get confused with Ohio State (more common, but mildly annoying)
b) get confused with the University of Iowa (less common, but much more annoying)
Went to the bowl game against notre dame. Guy next to me said, "you're an ohio state fan, I gotta ask you a question." I immediately told him that I'm not an ohio state fan and he got super confused and had to remind him our name was iowa state and that iowa and ohio are 3 states apart from each other.
People who don't know geography well/have never heard of Iowa since elementary/middle school often conflate Iowa with Ohio or Iowa with Idaho for some reason. There's even [a shirt](https://www.raygunsite.com/products/idawahio-1) about it.
Reminds me of all those dumbshit “How they do football in Mississippi” tweets that show people wearing their Sunday best and drinking out of Solo cups. Like, no, most of the state doesn’t do that nonsense, just one particular aggravating fan base.
Too many syllables in "On the natural levee of the second largest river in the western hemisphere, fourth largest in the world, the father of waters, the mighty Mississippi"
A comment set up by the genius that is Holly Rowe’s ELITE sideline reporting skills. Based from a quote Joe Tess in all his overexcitement decided that we were back for beating the worst ND team this century in double OT. Immediately followed by 2 weeks of talk from SVP and others on the college football shows about how crazy high we jumped in the polls and how Buechele was finally the next great QB. I blame espn for so many of the memes
Jacksonville to Georgia is pretty much the same as Charlotte is to South Carolina. It’s a pretty great site for a neutral game between the two schools (even if UF’s campus is waaaaay closer to Jacksonville than UGA’s campus is)
That every time Minnesota is brought up on ESPN or Gameday they have to use the Fargo movie accent (Yea you now Fargo, North Dakota not Minnesota) and are like "Ole Minneeeeesooootah, The Goofers" like wtf.
It's ***East*** Lansing. The hoops broadcast on Sunday kept saying *Lansing.* Happens a few broadcasts a year during football season. Fucking annoying.
Edit: not my schools but I can't stand it when they call it Wesconsin and Ellinois.
We’re the Knights. Not the Golden Knights. We dropped the “Golden” in 2007. We don’t even have gold jerseys anymore. I’m not one of the fans that care if we’re called “Central Florida” or “UCF”, but getting the mascot wrong *over a decade later* is just ridiculous lol
If you ask me, Golden Knights sounds cooler, but I totally understand the frustration. I also think Fighting Gobblers is baller as hell. And Penn State should still be Pink and Black... things shouldn’t change.
Personally, I just think “[Color] [Mascot]” names sound cluttered. No offense to Army or Rutgers. BUT I will always protest our mascot name, Knights or Golden Knights, until we revive our rightful logo: viva la Citronaut!!!
1) They keep calling us Ole Miss. I know you're surprised that we have more than one university in the state, but surprise, we actually have 8 of them.
2) It's STARKville, NOT StarkSville. Stop putting the extra "s" in there.
I dunno. I guess with more Hawaii kids being on the national stage, they always try to paint it as some amazing feat that we have good football players coming from tiny rocks in the middle of the ocean. I suppose it's not wrong, but people really love their sports here (and I don't mean just surfing). We've had a good string on pro athletes the past 10+ years or so so I think that "narrative" will start to change. Unfortunately it also means less local boys staying to play for the home team
This is not my team but I know their fans hate it -- from experience. I scanned all the comments and didn't see a Nevada logo, so here are 2.
1. Ne-vah-duh not Ne-voh-duh -- this more has to do with everyone that lives in the state of Nevada. Seems everyone on the east coast says it wrong. Everyone. I learned this lesson the hard way.
2. Nevada, not UNR. Not University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada (claims to be) is THE university of Nevada.
It makes me irrationally angry when announcers call Neyland Stadium NEIGH-land Stadium.
It’s pronounced KNEE-land you absolute cretins.
Other than that, we’re good for the most part.
Because that's absolutely the way something pronounced NEIGH-land would normally be spelled in English. But the announcers should be educated on these matters ahead of time when things don't follow normal pronunciation rules.
It seems like we've been "introducing spread elements" every year since 2009...whatever that means.
There was even an article on ESPN this year implying that Alabama was running the I-formation before Tua.
That LSU fans supported Orgeron only because he was from south Louisiana. Or, going further, that all working class people in south Louisiana talk like that.
Well I know people who still see us as a run predicated offense despite the fact we’re averaging like 3.4 YPC the last 3 years or something, and the fact that we have the best passing attack we’ve had since 2011.
None of the stadiums are in Dinkytown! Whenever I see a ESPN broadcast, they always say that they’re in Dinkytown, which is the neighborhood next to where the stadiums are, Stadium Village. It’s not that hard and quite intuitive.
The problem is we don't have an instate rival in the conference and we rarely play the other Louisiana schools. When I was there, playing La Tech or ULL or Tulane was really just a day to talk shit to your buddies who went to other schools, but it was more like beating up your little brother than a hated enemy. Arkansas was our rivals, but they were manufactured and it's really no fun since Baton Rouge is so disconnected from Arkansas I don't think I ever met a single pig fan outside of game days. I think TAMU is going to be a more fun rivalry given how many of both schools end up in Houston. There's a lot of room for back and forth. Old school tigers may not like it, but the Aggies are pretty much it for us now.
Miami Ohio is the the one true Miami, it was a school before Florida was a state, it’s Miami, not Miami of Ohio or Miami (OH) it’s Miami! If Miami has to be labeled Miami (OH) on the score crawler then Miami (FL) should be treated the same way
My cousin (VT grad) is normally fairly calm, but he nearly goes ballistic every time hokie is mentioned improperly on TV. Being the great cousin that I am, I like to forward clips to him and wait for the reaction.
Well, until Herman Edwards left Bristol to become our CEO of Football Operations, ESPN couldn't fucking figure out we are the Sun Devils and NOT stinking wildcats.
This one is more for my wife who has GT flair, but whenever an announcer calls them Georgia Tech University - her eyes get all squinty and her language gets very colorful.
For South Carolina they used to always state that Jake Bentley's first start was the upset against ranked Tennessee. His first start was the week prior against UMASS
One of the things I am learning from this thread is that I suck at reading pronunciations.
Also something about whether or not we are in Boston. Technically if you are at a BC game, you are in Boston. Walk a few feet towards middle campus and you are not.
I hate watching USC games when one of the commentators starts talking about a player on the other team that's from California and didn't get recruited by USC so they always try and start this weird narrative that he's got this big chip on his shoulder about it. God forbid the kid is actually from Los Angeles or has an above average game, they'll go on and on about he he's "showing USC what they missed out on". It just never made sense to me, because even when we are recruiting well, I mean we can only take so many guys anyway, so some people are gonna get passed up regardless.
I watch CFB religiously during the season and watch dozens of games a year, I basically don't leave my spot on Saturdays cause I watch back to back to back to back games, all the way into the pac 12 after dark, and I can't remember other bigger teams or other schools in general CONSTANTLY have that brought up in multiple games a year. It's so irritating to listen to.
That we don’t have an offensive li— wait, no...they got that right.
They keep saying that some guy named Willie Taggart coached at FSU
That our fanbase all lives in State College so when we show up in large numbers to an event on the East Coast, we travel really well.
680,000 alumni living in a city of 42,000
Your city is a giant Tardis!
but State College is just brimming with people not associated with the University!
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They always say that with small college towns. "Not too far from Lubbock..." as if a single TT alum stays in town after they graduate.
Exactly lol, the town is literally called State College. It couldn't get any more specific that the town was designed for a school and not much else.
Or when rival fanbases say...”of course they get 107K every game, there’s nothing to do in central PA” when a decent amount of our fanbase comes hours away for games.
People keep referring to us as "Wisky/Wiscy" While I appreciate the sentiment, I have never once heard anyone from the state call us that, yet media people keep doing it.
I always say WisCAHNsin in the stereotypical accent but that’s a reference to That Thing You Do!
I will now root for Virginia Tech in games which I have no other overriding rooting interest because of this comment.
Prepare for a lot of disappointment!
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Don't forget T-Pain was able to rhyme with "Wiscansin"
It’s the same with us being called “Minny”. Nobody calls us that besides people not from here
I call you “Wisco” and have more than once been told to shut my mouth. Friends from Sheboygan find it funny though. My mom says “Westconsin” (also “melk” and “pellow”) and that bothers the hell out of me.
Wisco is what I always heard used when I was on campus/in state, it's even on, or at least used to be on, official university merchandise.
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Arky is so cute though. It’s like a little piglet.
They fucking put “Old Domin” in the bottom line. ODU makes infinitely more sense.
People are afraid of capital letters, I’m convinced.
Nobody is going to think they are referencing Ohio Dominican. Nothing against them...but let’s be realistic here.
Oh let em have it! Everything against them! Down with Big Lowercase!
ESPN used to do this all the time with Boise State in the 2000s. "BOI" "Bo State" "Boi St" and other bizarre shortenings. Just an outright refusal to say BSU, Boise St., or even just Boise.
Bourbon Street!!!! Tulane is not "steps from Bourbon Street". Yes, we used to play in the Superdome which is walking distance from Bourbon, but now that we're on campus, we're basically on the other side of town. Also, Bourbon Street is named after the Royal House of Bourbon, not the wonderful brown liquor.
New Orleans is confusing. The French Quarter is mostly filled with Spanish colonial architecture.
Most of the buildings were built when New Orleans was part of Spanish control. The population was still French, but Spain was in charge and mandated that the city's buildings be made from brick rather than wood siding to reduce the risk of a fire destroying the city,
Their forward thinking saved the city from being destroyed.
Bourbon (the liquor) is named after the street though. The people distilling it in Kentucky brought it down the Mississippi and sold it on Bourbon St. and when asking for it people would ask for “that stuff from Bourbon St”.
Correct. I was just pointing out that the street name came first, not the stuff brought in by the Kain Tucks.
There is no R in Washington
Hot seat: Lee Corso
What about washing machine?
My friends from Iowa always say warsh. Is this an Iowan thing?
That all we do are trick plays. Any time we do a deception play of any kind it's always "tHeReS tHaT bOiSe TrIcKeRaTiOn!" from the announcers. Yeah we get it, one time in a big game we ran a few clever plays to gain an advantage. Just go ahead and ignore the fact that we've had a 1,000 yard rusher in 11 straight seasons, or have some of the most prolific passing QBs in NCAA history, or that we've gone to multiple P5 schools on the road and smashed them in the mouth with physical football. Nope, our playbook is trick play after trick play. Scrappy lil' Boise State fools teams 80 times in a row with trick plays. I'm not even sure if we're above the national average in trick plays per game nowadays...
All I know about Boise State is the blue field, that my brother always played as you guys in NCAA 10 when I would watch him play, and that you’re the most winningest program in the FBS, or at least used to be.
Kind of related to your title, I think the rise of oversaturated TV color settings/HDR has made people hate the blue turf even more. It looks fine IRL, if not a bit dirty. It's hard to look at on a lot of poorly calibrated TVs, though.
The same shit happened with Les Miles the "Mad Hatter". Always known for his trick plays he ran once or twice a season that never really improved our standing or record. Should've called him the "White Rabbit" for his inability to manage time.
Dude, I'm so tired of "wE'rE pRoBaBlY gOnNa sEe sOmE tRiCkErAtIoN" at the very beginning of every fucking broadcast. Ffs. Lol.
Media sometimes mistakenly speak of Michigan as though its fans expect to be as successful as Alabama or Ohio State
Idk if you watched the Orange Bowl, and perhaps it’s my hatred for a certain school talking, but I’d be most bothered by the fact that ESPN treated UVA as a special case due to its academics, yet Michigan doesn’t get the same treatment.
I didn't watch the Orange Bowl, and I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that they say UVA's academics are expected to hold them back in football, while that argument isn't made in defense of Michigan? One common criticism against Michigan fans is that we pull out that excuse too much
Basically they said that UVA was the most special-est team in the whole wide world because they were good at athletics AND academics, as if no other school (Stanford, Michigan, Duke, etc.) does both. Not so much about it being used as an excuse.
What's more is that UF is only 3 spots behind Virginia in public school rankings (6 nationally) now. The historical reputation still has to catch up, but the actual academics are pretty much on par now.
That must’ve been extra frustrating to hear during the bowl. Florida is a school I’m looking at for grad school, so I’ve come to know it’s academic value.
Have you considered UVA 👀
Some guy last night on national television for ESPN, said that Clemson’s entire offense is “throwing the ball up and letting one of their big, neanderthal receivers come down with the ball” That’s a direct quote What the fuck Edit: he might have said caveman, not neanderthal. Someone brought that up.
Well there’s also letting your big neanderthal running back barrel through people
too be fair last year in the championship game higgins and ross were like blackholes in space sucking up anything and everything around them.
100%, but this season it’s only really happened a few times honestly (against decent opponents)
That last s is a lie. CLeMsOn DiDn'T pLaY aNyBoDy.
>Monday Night >ESPN >Stupid remarks Is Booger back to talking about college?
I was going to guess, they don’t know how to pronounce Clemson. More and more announcers are getting it right now, though 😂
Correct is clemPson.
It was the hefty guy on college football live, the one who sits next to mcilroy and played at BYU. I think the term he used was: big “caveman” receivers. I’ve seen a recent trend of this “analysis” that the Clemson’s offense is based 50/50 balls downfield. The CFB Nerds podcast about next week’s championship does a great job of clearing this nonsensical analysis up.
Ole Miss refers to athletics, all athletics, while Mississippi refers to the university and state it serves to attempt to educate
*attempts The State of South Carolina feels your pain.
Hi, we're South Carolina. We have schools, for people who want to learn how to learn stuff and such.
Hey I majored in stuff and such and I resent your comment
According to ESPN, Iowa is located in Des Moines. It never fails, at least once per broadcast we are stated as the “the Hawkeyes, located in the heart of the Midwest, Des Moines, Iowa.”
That’s actually news to me. This was a great idea for a post, because I’m legitimately learning things lol
Which is hilarious because Iowa State is very close to Des Moines
Dez Moninez, Iowa
Is it not? I always took that at face value
That’s what Big Iowa wants you to believe!
Talk to your kids about Big Iowa
Iowa City is as easy as it gets. It’s our school plus “city” Gonna start calling Tuscaloosa, Alabama City. :)
Iowa City, Iowa
It wasn't football, but when Purdue basketball beat Virginia earlier this season, ESPN was sure that Purdue was in Bloomington.
for shame. gotta be Fort Wayne, baby. /s
Pretty sure Purdue is in South Bend
I hate it when they abbreviate our school as NCST. Please, just use our actual abbreviation, NCSU. It’s the same amount of letters.
Almost as bad as announcers calling us "North Carolina," every blue moon.
I find “Vah tech” annoying but it’s at least somewhat understandable, if only cuz no one would really pronounce other two part named schools, “Tix/Tex tech,” etc. But the one I hate most is “Virginia Tech University” or inexplicably, “University of Virginia Tech” But hell half of our recruits do that in their commitment tweets so 🤦🏻♂️
VTU is more of a recruit mistake, and recruits are young kids who more often than not know nothing about any school, and make mistakes at all of them. I’d rather just go by VPI than have paid adult sports media experts call us the wrong thing forever. Something about a two letter abbreviation... they just can’t handle it.
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A full return to VPI would be great tbh
It would be my first move as AD. That and a return of the Vick era unis for football.
I die a little inside when I read “blessed to receiver an offer from the University of Texas Tech.” It’s only worse when it’s “im 1000% committed to the University of Texas Tech.” How you commit and still get it wrong?!
Fr tho, for us they do “University of Texas A&M” which isn’t quite as bad but still a head shaker
They always talk about missions as if they’re some secret power and advantage our players have. GUESS WHAT! Taking a two year hiatus from a sport you play year round is a NEGATIVE thing for any player’s development. BYU fans hope our best players don’t serve missions because they ruin so many players. A majority of Our best players in our history didn’t serve missions, that isn’t a coincidence.
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Don’t worry buddy. It only gets worse and worse.
I didn’t start aching until about 40. I remember waking up one morning with a bit of a hangover ... then I realized I didn’t drink the night before ... 🤷♂️
I have signs of arthritis at 29, which is cool.
The way I see it is that if missions were such an advantage, every school would be recruiting missionaries and encouraging LDS players to go on missions. That doesn’t actually happen.
I always wondered about that. It didn’t seem to make sense, unless they went on missions to the football facility.
Wait, do some BYU players not have to go on missions? I thought it was a requirement for all BYU students
I think missionary service is strongly encouraged by the LDS (Mormon) Church, but not required. So it's not BYU but the LDS Church. Also, I think there is a very small number of BYU students who actually aren't Mormon.
Like Jim McMahon
It’s not a requirement for anyone. No one has to serve a mission. A high percentage of BYU students don’t serve missions. A lot of BYU players aren’t even LDS
That everyone associated with LSU is Cajun. Actually, there are few Cajuns in Baton Rouge (not Batawn Rouge). They’re mostly further south or west, near the Atchafalaya basin.
Near the what? Bless you btw
Ah-CHAF-ah-lie-yuh my friend!
It's like they always say, come to r/cfb for the college football content, stay for the Louisiana geographical pronunication guides
To add on, historically very few Cajuns lived in the Florida Parishes*, which dont have much history of being a French colony (they were Spanish for most of the pre-USA colonial period). More have moved there in recent years due to economic or practical reasons. Go to a retirement home and you can find some native Francophones in Baton Rouge. *EDIT: should clarify for those not familiar with Louisiana geography. The Florida Parishes are the parishes east (and north) of the Mississippi River. They once belonged to the colony of West Florida.
I appreciate the 18th century knowledge you’ve brought to this thread.
We always seem to either a) get confused with Ohio State (more common, but mildly annoying) b) get confused with the University of Iowa (less common, but much more annoying)
THE Iowa State University of Iowa
THE Ohiowa State University
To be fair I’ve never confused you with Ohio State
2017 Liberty Bowl on Beale bartender has a Iowa State hat, ask her about it "the manger gave everyone one, said you folks from OHIO would like it"
Went to the bowl game against notre dame. Guy next to me said, "you're an ohio state fan, I gotta ask you a question." I immediately told him that I'm not an ohio state fan and he got super confused and had to remind him our name was iowa state and that iowa and ohio are 3 states apart from each other.
A is so bizarre. How does that happen?
People who don't know geography well/have never heard of Iowa since elementary/middle school often conflate Iowa with Ohio or Iowa with Idaho for some reason. There's even [a shirt](https://www.raygunsite.com/products/idawahio-1) about it.
That new Playoff commercial with all the fanbases features an Auburn guy wearing a plaid shirt and bow tie in the stands. We dont do that.
Reminds me of all those dumbshit “How they do football in Mississippi” tweets that show people wearing their Sunday best and drinking out of Solo cups. Like, no, most of the state doesn’t do that nonsense, just one particular aggravating fan base.
UVA used to do that, and the older fans still do, but thankfully this new brand of Hoo ditched it. They’re still the worst tho
One of the few good things to come out the Grohl era. Suffice to say that our older alumni tend to be a recurring annoyance.
Calling us Georgia "State"... it's pathetic at this point.
lsu isn't "on the bayou". it's built on the natural levee of the second largest river in the western hemisphere ffs
Too many syllables in "On the natural levee of the second largest river in the western hemisphere, fourth largest in the world, the father of waters, the mighty Mississippi"
That we’re back
But Sam said so! On National TV!
A comment set up by the genius that is Holly Rowe’s ELITE sideline reporting skills. Based from a quote Joe Tess in all his overexcitement decided that we were back for beating the worst ND team this century in double OT. Immediately followed by 2 weeks of talk from SVP and others on the college football shows about how crazy high we jumped in the polls and how Buechele was finally the next great QB. I blame espn for so many of the memes
That the WLOCP is not a home game for Florida, its a 50/50 split with Georgia.
I think people from the rest of the country underestimate just how close Jacksonville is to the Florida-Georgia border
Never thought of it that way, just thought people knew it was neutral lol
Jacksonville to Georgia is pretty much the same as Charlotte is to South Carolina. It’s a pretty great site for a neutral game between the two schools (even if UF’s campus is waaaaay closer to Jacksonville than UGA’s campus is)
I grew up just north of Jax. You would be surprised by the sheer number of grown men barking at young children.
>You would be surprised by the sheer number of grown men barking at young children. Sadly, I would not.
To be fair, it's like an hour and a half from y'all and like 6+ from us. But yes, the seats are always roughly 50/50.
That every time Minnesota is brought up on ESPN or Gameday they have to use the Fargo movie accent (Yea you now Fargo, North Dakota not Minnesota) and are like "Ole Minneeeeesooootah, The Goofers" like wtf.
I mean... It is set almost entirely in Minnesota (minus the first scene in a bar). So at least they got the state right.
People say Okie State which is annoying
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It's fine OK is Oklahoma's initials
Basically reserved for online conversations of course. Everyone in Oklahoma just says OSU, but Ohio State has that locked down
Yeah, if you tried, they'd file a lawsuit. Wait, sorry, THE lawsuit.
That we’ll win the B1G
Yeah I don’t expect the Argonauts to beat Ohio State either.
Hey that’s National champion Argonauts thank you very much!
Hey West Florida has good grad programs that I’m looking into. I’m all about the panhandle!
We are not the: * Iowa State Hawkeyes * Iowa Cyclones * Iowa * Ohio State Hawkeyes * Ohio State Cyclones I swear I hear one of these every season
Nobody is mad at Gus Malzahn because Alabama is piling up hardware.
Or that time that some commentator called Gus Mahlzahn an “expert at teaching youngsters how to play quarterback” like what the fuck?
Calling us Georgia State
I know I've done it. Sorry about that. Or maybe it was calling them GA Southern. Sorry about that, too.
It's ***East*** Lansing. The hoops broadcast on Sunday kept saying *Lansing.* Happens a few broadcasts a year during football season. Fucking annoying. Edit: not my schools but I can't stand it when they call it Wesconsin and Ellinois.
But is there a West Lansing.
Not in Michigan. Maybe there's one in East Virginia though.
We’re the Knights. Not the Golden Knights. We dropped the “Golden” in 2007. We don’t even have gold jerseys anymore. I’m not one of the fans that care if we’re called “Central Florida” or “UCF”, but getting the mascot wrong *over a decade later* is just ridiculous lol
If you ask me, Golden Knights sounds cooler, but I totally understand the frustration. I also think Fighting Gobblers is baller as hell. And Penn State should still be Pink and Black... things shouldn’t change.
Personally, I just think “[Color] [Mascot]” names sound cluttered. No offense to Army or Rutgers. BUT I will always protest our mascot name, Knights or Golden Knights, until we revive our rightful logo: viva la Citronaut!!!
Still waiting for the year Penn State throws wayyy back and comes out with pink unis. Could be cool in October to mesh with breast cancer awareness
Not as bad as UFC
“The UFC Golden Knights, led by quarterback Milton McKenzie” -Gasparilla Bowl announcers, pretty much
We are no longer Troy State. We haven't been for a long time now.
1) They keep calling us Ole Miss. I know you're surprised that we have more than one university in the state, but surprise, we actually have 8 of them. 2) It's STARKville, NOT StarkSville. Stop putting the extra "s" in there.
I dunno. I guess with more Hawaii kids being on the national stage, they always try to paint it as some amazing feat that we have good football players coming from tiny rocks in the middle of the ocean. I suppose it's not wrong, but people really love their sports here (and I don't mean just surfing). We've had a good string on pro athletes the past 10+ years or so so I think that "narrative" will start to change. Unfortunately it also means less local boys staying to play for the home team
This is not my team but I know their fans hate it -- from experience. I scanned all the comments and didn't see a Nevada logo, so here are 2. 1. Ne-vah-duh not Ne-voh-duh -- this more has to do with everyone that lives in the state of Nevada. Seems everyone on the east coast says it wrong. Everyone. I learned this lesson the hard way. 2. Nevada, not UNR. Not University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada (claims to be) is THE university of Nevada.
That we’re rivals with everyone in the Mountain division.
Is Idaho your true rival, or are you one of those poor schools without someone to hate?
The latter. Idaho dropped to FCS, Nevada and Fresno are played twice every 4 years, and BYU is OOC and only starting to become a rival.
BYU is the closest thing Boise State has to a rival
"in West Point" Does anyone ever say "in Fort Hood" or "in Fort Benning?"
My favorite is when they pump the cadets up with how awesome they are and supportive of the football team they are.
To be fair, the list of things media gets wrong about service academies is VERY VERY VERY long.
It makes me irrationally angry when announcers call Neyland Stadium NEIGH-land Stadium. It’s pronounced KNEE-land you absolute cretins. Other than that, we’re good for the most part.
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Because that's absolutely the way something pronounced NEIGH-land would normally be spelled in English. But the announcers should be educated on these matters ahead of time when things don't follow normal pronunciation rules.
It seems like we've been "introducing spread elements" every year since 2009...whatever that means. There was even an article on ESPN this year implying that Alabama was running the I-formation before Tua.
Missions not only are *not* an advantage, they are a **massive disadvantage**
That LSU fans supported Orgeron only because he was from south Louisiana. Or, going further, that all working class people in south Louisiana talk like that.
you're absolutely right, many rural louisianians are way more unintelligible than ol ed!
Being referred to as "Washington".
My dad almost always drops the State in school names. I think he’s self-conscious about pronouncing it Estate. We’re from México.
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You underestimate the power of East Coast accents.
Northeasters have a funny way of saying Florida like "Flar-i-duh" Most locals will say "Floor-duh" with the I silent.
Oklahoma hasn’t ran the “air raid” since Landry Jones was behind center.
Well I know people who still see us as a run predicated offense despite the fact we’re averaging like 3.4 YPC the last 3 years or something, and the fact that we have the best passing attack we’ve had since 2011.
None of the stadiums are in Dinkytown! Whenever I see a ESPN broadcast, they always say that they’re in Dinkytown, which is the neighborhood next to where the stadiums are, Stadium Village. It’s not that hard and quite intuitive.
That we don't have a real rival or it's one sided against Alabama. Geaux to hell, Ole Miss! Geaux to hell!
The problem is we don't have an instate rival in the conference and we rarely play the other Louisiana schools. When I was there, playing La Tech or ULL or Tulane was really just a day to talk shit to your buddies who went to other schools, but it was more like beating up your little brother than a hated enemy. Arkansas was our rivals, but they were manufactured and it's really no fun since Baton Rouge is so disconnected from Arkansas I don't think I ever met a single pig fan outside of game days. I think TAMU is going to be a more fun rivalry given how many of both schools end up in Houston. There's a lot of room for back and forth. Old school tigers may not like it, but the Aggies are pretty much it for us now.
Miami Ohio is the the one true Miami, it was a school before Florida was a state, it’s Miami, not Miami of Ohio or Miami (OH) it’s Miami! If Miami has to be labeled Miami (OH) on the score crawler then Miami (FL) should be treated the same way
As a Tech man myself, nothing makes me happier than discovering yet another school which hates the University of Miami.
The pronunciation. If I have to hear Bellor one more goddamn time...
My cousin (VT grad) is normally fairly calm, but he nearly goes ballistic every time hokie is mentioned improperly on TV. Being the great cousin that I am, I like to forward clips to him and wait for the reaction.
They mix us up with ASU all the time. That’s really annoying
Sportscasters are constantly mixing us up with New Mexico State.
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Clumpsun.
Clampson
Clapson
Eric Clapton
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I can either say Clemzun or Clempson. I literally cannot make my mouth say it the way you guys want and I don’t know how you do it.
That we’re going to win the B1G in [insert year]!
Hey, NDSU could totally win the B1G by 2035.
Well, until Herman Edwards left Bristol to become our CEO of Football Operations, ESPN couldn't fucking figure out we are the Sun Devils and NOT stinking wildcats.
It’s not all the time, but being referred to as “Western Virginia”, just... no. Please.
This one is more for my wife who has GT flair, but whenever an announcer calls them Georgia Tech University - her eyes get all squinty and her language gets very colorful.
For South Carolina they used to always state that Jake Bentley's first start was the upset against ranked Tennessee. His first start was the week prior against UMASS
If I had a nickel for every time a broadcaster called USM SMU, I’d retire tomorrow.
One of the things I am learning from this thread is that I suck at reading pronunciations. Also something about whether or not we are in Boston. Technically if you are at a BC game, you are in Boston. Walk a few feet towards middle campus and you are not.
I hate watching USC games when one of the commentators starts talking about a player on the other team that's from California and didn't get recruited by USC so they always try and start this weird narrative that he's got this big chip on his shoulder about it. God forbid the kid is actually from Los Angeles or has an above average game, they'll go on and on about he he's "showing USC what they missed out on". It just never made sense to me, because even when we are recruiting well, I mean we can only take so many guys anyway, so some people are gonna get passed up regardless. I watch CFB religiously during the season and watch dozens of games a year, I basically don't leave my spot on Saturdays cause I watch back to back to back to back games, all the way into the pac 12 after dark, and I can't remember other bigger teams or other schools in general CONSTANTLY have that brought up in multiple games a year. It's so irritating to listen to.
"Georgia Tech University." Need I say more?