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110%er [5555]
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Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 11, 2012, 4:32 PM
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for a moment. What school do you like to see succeed? Basically if you had to pick a second team, whom would it be? I've always had tons of respect for Alabama, mainly because of history. I always enjoy, even during the Mike Shula era, watching the Tide play.
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Athletic Dir [864]
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Arkansas***
Aug 11, 2012, 4:33 PM
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CU Medallion [53830]
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Yep.***
Aug 12, 2012, 8:31 AM
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Rock Defender [54]
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It's a tie for me
Aug 11, 2012, 4:35 PM
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Oklahoma and Texas A&M
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110%er [6099]
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ARMY!!!!!!
Aug 12, 2012, 1:51 PM
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I love watching the triple option. plus my dad went there and played so I grew up a fan too.
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CU Medallion [60234]
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Georgia Southern
Aug 11, 2012, 4:40 PM
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probably where I wold have gone if I hadn't gotten in to Clemson.
if you mean only a "big" program, it would be Vanderbilt.
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Re: Georgia Southern
Aug 11, 2012, 5:42 PM
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App State at Georgia Southern. Gonna be a great game
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Legend [15749]
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Texas A&M, Rutgers and the Academies.
Aug 11, 2012, 4:42 PM
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I'm from New Jersey, so I like to see the home-state team do well.
I love the Texas A&M tradition.
And the Academies is somewhat obvious, I think. A team made up of players that have no multi-million dollar NFL contracts in their (immediate) future, who are unquestionably hitting the books and have chosen to serve the country.
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Vandy or App State***
Aug 11, 2012, 4:43 PM
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I love seeing SC and Georgia
Aug 11, 2012, 4:50 PM
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Unsucceed
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Re: I love seeing SC and Georgia
Aug 11, 2012, 5:37 PM
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UGA
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All-TigerNet [11435]
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 11, 2012, 4:52 PM
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I like Nebraska and Wisconsin
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Orange Blooded [2457]
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I want to see Penn State succeed under the sanctions***
Aug 11, 2012, 4:53 PM
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Orange Blooded [3220]
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NC State. . . grew up a Wolfpack fan!
Aug 11, 2012, 5:07 PM
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My Dad went to State on the GI Bill after WWII. I was born in Raleigh, and 'Pack fans really support their school.
When we moved to SC, after completing high school, I still applied to State for college, but was blessed to be able to attend Clemson (which was a bit ironic, as my Dad had applied to both schools [for Textile Chemistry] and ended up going to State!).
In fact, the first game I watched in Death Valley, I was with my parents, pulling for NC State! It was 1967, and the State team was wearing white shoes that season. So Frank Howard, in typical Coach Howard style, had his boys paint their shoes orange! Clemson prevailed that day.
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Aug 11, 2012, 5:17 PM
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App State or Army
Aug 11, 2012, 5:22 PM
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My daughter graduated from App State, and it is an in state (NC) school I feel comfortable pulling for unless they were to play Clemson of course. My nephew started at West Point this summer and will be playing baseball for them, and who can pull against one of the academies unless they are playing each other.
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TCU***
Aug 11, 2012, 5:33 PM
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Ole Miss.
Aug 11, 2012, 5:35 PM
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But they need to bring back the Colonel. Political correctness bedamned!
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Aug 11, 2012, 5:37 PM
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App State***
Aug 11, 2012, 5:43 PM
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USC although I don't like Kiffen***
Aug 11, 2012, 5:43 PM
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Kansas State or Oregon
Aug 11, 2012, 5:52 PM
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nm
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Georgia Tech
Aug 11, 2012, 5:56 PM
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They win without recruiting players who have no business being in any college, unlike much of their competition. Their team has the highest SAT average in the BCS.
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Orange Blooded [2110]
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Re: Georgia Tech
Aug 11, 2012, 5:57 PM
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Agree...
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Re: Georgia Tech
Aug 11, 2012, 7:06 PM
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I loathe GT. They're in my top 5 hated teams. They are a big rival, aren't they? I mean, it's fair enough, I like UGA and they're kinda a rival.
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Re: Georgia Tech
Aug 12, 2012, 8:55 AM
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Georgia Tech and UNC are almost equal to the Gamecocks for my last place team.
I really like Texas. Great campus, city, Bevo is pretty amazing, and the hook-em-horns thing is cool.
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Glad to see tamu
Aug 11, 2012, 5:58 PM
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Get some respect. That would be my second team.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 11, 2012, 11:46 PM
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East Carolina in FBS. They are the only football first FBS school in NC, and they have fought tooth and nail against Tabakky Road for years.
I pull for all of the SC FCS teams except PC. I'm Lutheran and a Newberry fan, so it's in my DNA to pull against PC.
Newberry College. Had an uncle play ball there in the 1970's, and growing up we went to a whole bunch of games. Haven't been in a few years, but plan on making a game or two this year.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 11, 2012, 11:48 PM
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UGA.
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Orange Blooded [4988]
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I don't want any other team to succeed and I would never
Aug 12, 2012, 12:00 AM
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take Clemson out of the occasion. I hate people that like more than 1 team, I think its ridiculous. I hate people even more that like different teams for different sports. It's always convenient that it's always the good teams for each sport too. You don't ever meet a Duke football fan and a Penn St basketball fan do you? Wonder why! My parents went to different schools, they didn't raise me on Clemson, I raised myself on Clemson. My family has a lot of stronger ties to other schools but I never wavered, don't know why other people do.
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Legend [15914]
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That's a whole lot of hate tigerinlv
Aug 12, 2012, 12:25 AM
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Try a little love brother
Clemson is always #1 in our hearts, but other teams have cool traditions, smart kids, or hard working clean guys really trying to better themselves. Most of this discussion reflects that.
I've always liked Michigans fight song. Living in CA like I do now, I like to see Stanford and Cal do well.. can't stand USC but will pull for them to break SEC run if they indeed live up to preseason hype.
Grew up going to a few citadel games each year, and they beat both SCar and Arkansas in the last 20 years so gotta give them a nod too.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 12:33 AM
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Furman, and maybe The ducks
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Rock Defender [54]
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 1:11 AM
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I always pull for Vandy. And of course, Furman - when they're not playing us. I grew up close to the Furman campus, and played in their gym as a teen (probably wasn't supposed to), and swam in their lake at night (yep - wasn't supposed to). But Furman should wear PURPLE, and CLEMSON should wear ORANGE.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 1:19 AM
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Whoever is playing SCAR.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 1:45 AM
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Clemson is and ALWAYS will be #1!!! there is NO other team.
now if Clemson didnt exist, but now Clemson does and they always will, the only other team would be Pittsburgh.
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Orange Blooded [2213]
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Iowa Hawkeyes..and they whipped coots in a bowl....***
Aug 12, 2012, 2:57 AM
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All-American [574]
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 3:49 AM
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Stanford.....IMO, the only school that comes in a distant 2nd to my Tigers.
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For me - there is no other team than Clemson. None.***
Aug 12, 2012, 5:32 AM
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Orange Blooded [3289]
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Coastal Carolina
Aug 12, 2012, 5:55 AM
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110%er [6982]
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Tennessee for sure
Aug 12, 2012, 7:48 AM
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I have several family members who are graduates. Funny thing is I have seen UT play live against USuC and Clemson as heavy favorites and the Vols lost both games. I was at the UT v USuC game in 1992 when "The Program" was filmed at halftime. I was with my cousin, a UT grad, and some drunk frat boys tried to pick a fight with us because of our UT garb. The idiots have no idea how lucky they were becasue my cousin was an ex-Navy seal and could have plucked one a kid's windpipe out in a half second. I was a state championship wrestler myself and could have broken a leg with little effort. Just goes to show, you NEVER pick fights with strangers in the stands. My cousin just laughed at the idiots and and shrugged them off as "typical South Carolina fans".
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Just playing "what if" .....
Aug 12, 2012, 8:08 AM
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...since obviously there is no correct answer beyond Clemson...
I'd have a few choices:
Texas A&M. Love the traditions, and still the nicest road game folks I've ever met.
Army (and by extension, I guess, Navy): You can't live in this neck of the woods and not develop a deep appreciation for what these guys have meant to our country. (Though if I were an Army fan, I'd have to hate Navy, and vice-versa.)
Wake Forest: Hey, if there were no Clemson, someone else would have to be my favorite ACC team. Should it be FSU? UNC? Maryland? Ugh! My heart would likely go to the underdogs in Switzerland, and in honesty they remain my No. 2 team in the ACC.
Of course, after Clemson, everyone is truly No. 2.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 8:18 AM
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Slippery Rock and Newberry. I was sad to see the Bronze Derby end between Newberry and PC.
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usc trojans***
Aug 12, 2012, 9:26 AM
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 1:17 PM
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Wake Forest ... My Dad and younger brother both went to Wake on football scholarships way back when. I'm the only "orange sheep" in the family. I think Grobe performs miracles with the talent level he has to work with most years.The smallest school in the FBS by far.
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Re: Take our beloved Clemson Tigers out of the picture
Aug 12, 2012, 1:46 PM
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Hook'em Horns....TEXAS
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Heisman Winner [108390]
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anyone playing vpi@su or ND.***
Aug 12, 2012, 1:50 PM
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Notre Dame
Aug 12, 2012, 5:23 PM
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Hate it or love it - I realize there is little middle ground for these guys but my dad was one his whole life so by proxy I liked them as my "Northern" team as a kid.
West Coast UCLA
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