<p>When you're watching a team (other than the one you support) play that is in your conference, do you want them to win or lose? I've heard both sides of the argument today at my tailgate haha</p>
<p>I would generally say you want them to get their ***** destroyed, but it really depends. If you support a school in a small conference, you might want the other schools to do good in out of conference play to bring notoriety to your conference. But if it’s a large conference that already has the media all over it and especially if the other schools are over-hyped, you want them to die!</p>
<p>Are they a main rival, such as you being a UCLA fan and USC is playing?
If that is the case, then you want USC to lose as badly as possible.</p>
<p>If it is a team that you don’t have any problem with, such as you being a UNC fan and Wake Forest is playing an Out of Conference game, then it would be good for Wake Forest to win in order to help out the overall perception of your conference.</p>
<p>This is a strange habit for me because I grew up a ND fan and they are independent.</p>
<p>What was the team in question? My high level of college football expertise will solve your dispute.</p>
<p>If you’re an independant, you want every team you play to go 11-1 (losing only to you). Otherwise, you want your opponents to win all out of conference games, and in conference game don’t matter as much.</p>
<p>well I’m talking about Clemson and the rest of the ACC. For example, last week, I was watching the UNC-LSU game and I was pulling for LSU and the people I was watching the game with told me that it would be wrong for me not to pull for UNC and want our conference to do well.</p>
<p>I usually root for conference teams to win OOC match ups. It makes your conference look better and helps your own team out for ranking and national championship spots.</p>
<p>There are a couple rivals I root against either-way, but for games that don’t have any real impact on my own teams season outlook, I support OOC victories.</p>
<p>Winning your conference and getting a BCS Bowl appearance is what matters, unless you are in a national title hunt.</p>
<p>As far as the ACC, that conference is really struggling so I would definitly root for other ACC teams to do well OOC.</p>
<p>If that was the case, then you should have been rooting for UNC to win in order to help the perception of the ACC. But UNC played pretty well considering they were playing a ton of 2nd and 3rd teamers because of the academic and elligibility issues. Either LSU sucks, or UNC was a better team than we thought. Too bad we won’t see them in the NC picture now.</p>
<p>And why would you root for that other tiger team that plays in the other Death Valley?</p>
<p>No team from the ACC will end up in the national title hunt and Boise just lost their shot at the NC game because VT lost to JMU. The NC game will be: Bama vs. Oregon.</p>
<p>Yea definitely root for teams in your conference if they are playing out-of-conference teams. And also hope that all the teams in your conference (besides your team) beat up on each other when they play against other teams in the conference. </p>
<p>I for one grew up as an ACC fan (Georgia Tech), and even though I go to UCLA right now I still root for Georgia Tech. I was pretty much rooting for the ACC teams this weekend, and it pretty much depressed the h*ll out of me when 5 of our teams lost their out-of-conference games and made our conference look bad (this was the chance for the ACC to get other people to take them seriously for once). I’m not going to rant much about the OSU/Miami game, and I’m fine with Virginia losing to USC, but FSU showed that they have been seriously overrated this year when they got clobbered by Oklahoma. And GT and VT didn’t really show up at all, and apparently don’t seem to know what a running game looks like. Its gotten so bad that I’ve almost started laughing at VT’s loss because even if they won, our conference would still look bad with all this other garbage.</p>
<p>I generally want every team we play to win every game they play except when they play us. Except Clemson. They can go 0-12 for 40 years for all I care. ;)</p>
<p>Pull for the teams in your conference, with the exception of your rivals. You don’t want your conference to be viewed as weak, because your own team will suffer if that perception becomes widespread. The last thing you want is to have a great year and have people say, “So what? Their conference is garbage-they didn’t even beat anybody good.”</p>
<p>haha wow I was contemplating this today. As a Stanford fan, I generally root for Pac-10 teams. for example I want Oregon to win so that Pac-10 becomes a power-house and then when Stanford beats Oregon, it makes Stanford look even better. the exceptions are USC and Cal. I want those teams to be humiliated as much as possible.</p>
<p>I attend a regional/directional university who’s sports teams compete in a mid-major conference so I usually cheer on the Big 10. Even if my school’s plays a Big 10 team I usually root against my home team; if it’s another major conference then I’ll root for my school. My reason behind such an action: I love the atmosphere that comes with major conferences, and to be honest I’m not a fan of my university to garner any support athletic wise.</p>
<p>cuse0507 has it dead right. and if ur in college, never cheer for another big school team like lsu or usc. they have enough fans. no matter how crappy your school is</p>
<p>It’s a win-win situation. If they win, if makes your conference look better. if they lose, they lose…</p>
<p>The SEC and Big Ten have the most solidarity among the conferences. SEC fans chant “S-E-C” during their OOC match ups, and the internet discussions among Big Ten teams in bowl season or OOC season is always very cordial and supportive (unless we are talking about that state up north…). I attend Ohio State, and from what I have seen on the internet, most Ohio State fans openly supported Penn State against Alabama, and Penn State fans for Ohio State against Miami (FL).</p>
<p>The Big 12 is the dysfunctional family. They were forced together in an uneasy marriage in the 1990s and nobody was really happy except for Texas, and now they’re not even that happy. Nebraska fans, the “best in college football”, hated everyone in their conference and now they’re finding it a relief to be in a conference where fans support each other.</p>
<p>The ACC is too new and geographically diverse to have a real fan support. Also, many ACC teams don’t have significant fan bases [i.e. Miami (FL), Boston College, Wake Forest, NC State, Virginia, etc.] so there isn’t a real presence of mind for ACC fan solidarity.</p>
<p>The Big East… They don’t really play football there. That is how they pass time before basketball. WVU and Pitt have great fans though.</p>
<p>PAC-10 is growing increasingly more solid in terms of fan identity as Washington, Oregon, and Stanford gain prominence and USC’s stranglehold seems to fade. </p>
<p>But the best remain the SEC and Big Ten.</p>