Michigan hated by impressive number of states
Or do you just suck at geography?
August 7th, 2014 at 10:09 PM ^
The old one was screwed up, this is the updated one from Reddit
The guy generated the map before the data had been cleaned; the new map (and relevant discussion) are posted here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/2cw9ot/here_is_a_a_fixed_college_f…
ummm why the hell does Montana hate us?
Edit: Well new map looks a little better but why do three states including Utah hate BYU so much?
August 8th, 2014 at 12:21 AM ^
The original WAC (now roughly the Mountain West) universally hated BYU. And not just because of their outsized success in football at the time. All of the exceptions that came with a Mormon school pissed off the rest of the conference. The mission exception allowed a lot of 25 year old BYU kids to play against 18 and 19 year old WAC kids. Not playing competitions on Sundays. This all added headaches to the rest of the conference members.
August 8th, 2014 at 12:07 AM ^
Well fuck you too, Nevada.
August 8th, 2014 at 12:40 AM ^
In my 6 years in Las Vegas, I saw way more buckeye gear than Michigan, but USC gear seemed to show up more than any others I saw. I think if the population were polled on college sports vitriol, I'd expect more to show up against UCLA or UNLV's basketball rival, whichever school that is.
Confirms my belief. Nobody actually lives in Montana, North Dakota, or Vermont.
Either so is that why so little of our tax dollars make it back up here?
My guess as to why Nevada hates Michigan so much has to do something with gambling. Im assuming Michigan does not cover the spread all that much. Im sure someone who has a more extensive history of gambling can shed more light on that.
I'd guess it's more likely that states without a major football power tend to just pick a major team. There might a lot of random OSU and Notre Dame fans out there.
It could also be that we got 3 of 13 votes from Nevada and that was the majority, or some guys from Ohio just said they were from Nevada. Very unscientific here
You're reading way, way too much into this. Most reasonable explanation is that 75 percent of female MSU grads move to Nevada to start their careers at the Spearmint Rhino.
August 7th, 2014 at 11:29 PM ^
I would agree
I'm getting the feeling this updated map still isn't accurate. Or should I say acurate.
Texas is a binary state. You either love or hate UT. The hate that longhorns fans have for the Sooners is not enough to overcome the hate that A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, and other fans in the state generate for the longhorns.
That was clever
whereas it does show that Michigan State is irrelevant.
There isn't another major school there to equal UW in numbers.
Nice to see that Missouri and KU still have their rivalry.
Have you met Bo Ryan?
The state of Upper Michigan hates all things red it seems.
Same with Iowa. I feel there are more Iowa fans that Iowa St. fans, and ISU would be the more hated team. Who the hell knows.
I think the shade of red is for the Ohio State continuing over from Michigan.
August 7th, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^
Living here for 2 years, I can say Wisconsin loves their Badgers and hate Ohio (they're not too fond of Michigan either, but they really hate OSU).
My guess is that the red is supposed to represent the Buckeyes.
although it's very difficult to tell.
pretty sure that's osu. different shades of red.
August 7th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
The first one was effed up. New one makes way more sense. Ohio is a state that sucks.
So Alabama hates Alabama the most? That can't be right. If this map was really accurate, the state of Michigan would be osu, the state of Ohio would be M, and the rest of the country would be Alabama.
Imagine Alabama is 50/50 Bama and Auburn fans. If Bama fans are split amongst several other teams like Auburn, LSU, and Florida that could dilute their voting power to the point that Auburn's united hatred of Alabama wins out in the state
Just like how in Michigan, Michigan fans outnumber MSU fans but MSU is united in their hatred for us. Michigan fans would be split up several ways between MSU, OSU, and Notre Dame so it wouldn't be terribly surprising to me to see us be most hated in Michigan