Here’s A Ranking Of College Football’s Most Loyal Fan Bases
Have you ever wondered which college football team has the most loyal fan base? Are you a loyal fan? Are fair weather fans even reading this?
Emory University’s sports marketing analytics group conducted its annual study of the most loyal fan bases in college football, or “fan equity,” as the group calls it. The group has a pretty crazy model it uses to determine who is the most loyal to their team.
From Emory University:
Our approach is data and statistically driven, as we look at how fans support their teams after controlling for how well the team performs on the field, the market it plays in, and school characteristics. For the fan equity analysis, we build a statistical model using publicly available data from the last fourteen years that predicts team revenues as a function of metrics related to team performance such as winning percentage, bowl participation, and other factors such as number of students, stadium capacity, etc. We then compare actual revenues over the last few years to what is predicted by our model.
Taking in all this data for every major college football team, the results aren’t too surprising. Texas leads the nation for having the most loyal fans, and apparently, there isn’t even a competition for the number one spot, despite putting out a subpar team since the Colt McCoy years.
Here are the top 10 most loyal fan bases, according to them:
1. Texas Longhorns
2. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
3. Georgia Bulldogs
4. Florida Gators
5. Auburn Tigers
6. Arkansas Razorbacks
7. Michigan Wolverines
8. Oklahoma Sooners
9. Iowa Hawkeyes
10. Nebraska Cornhuskers
Alabama and LSU just missed the top 10, coming in at 11 and 12, respectively.
[via Emory University]
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I can’t respect a top 10 ranking that doesn’t have Ohio State.
10 years ago at 10:07 amTime to leave pal.
10 years ago at 10:16 amYou are going to hate the final AP rankings.
10 years ago at 11:51 amDoes this count T-shirt fans?
10 years ago at 10:08 amAre they saying loyal to the team or the school? Because I heard way too much booing Longhorns during the BYU game…
10 years ago at 10:13 amAnd KOKE FM in Austin this morning was just talking about how they haven’t been so loyal lately…
10 years ago at 10:45 amFuck BYU.
10 years ago at 11:06 amMasses of Bama’ fans have loaded up their trailers and are en route to destroy Emory University for not having them in the top 10.
10 years ago at 10:18 amAs Bama alum I want to be irrationally pissed about this list, but yeah… Honestly we have a giant base of fair weather rednecks that give us the shitty part of our reputation.
10 years ago at 11:03 amThis isn’t too surprising. If you look at the Yahoo! Rivals network, the Texas site Orangebloods.com is the gold standard of entire network. The fans made it that way, not Ketchum or McComas.
10 years ago at 10:27 amShaggyBevo > OrangeBloods
10 years ago at 11:39 pmMy log of shit had more effort put into it than this article.
10 years ago at 10:29 amArkansas above Nebraska? and no Clemson? I don’t know about this
10 years ago at 10:48 amIt’s not an opinion piece.
10 years ago at 10:57 amI am questioning the metrics used, hoss.
10 years ago at 1:27 pmBut did they use stata…?
10 years ago at 10:53 amMy brother’s college, Devry U, is as loyal a fanbase as any.
10 years ago at 10:54 amYour brother is an evil.. evil man.
10 years ago at 3:41 amThis article is too one-sided.
10 years ago at 11:03 am