LSU, of course, my alma mater. But they’re always an undisciplined badly-coached team who loses by stupid mistakes. I hate Notre Dame, sick of having them shoved down my throat by the major networks, they’re the New York Yankees of football.
As a kid, I always rooted for UCLA to beat USC, but they never did. Always root for an SEC team (or anybody else) to beat a Big Ten team, especially Michigan, MSU or Ohio State.
I went to MIT, which, at the time, had not lost a game in 70-odd years :). They’re now in one of the smallest Div III conferences in existence. The 2 or 3 frats who had a bunch of jocks in IM’s became the varsity residences instead. One of my masters degrees was online from a big-name school that I’ve never actually visited, but sends me fundraising letters all the time anyway. The other was for a school with no team, in a major that used to be their entire existence but was canceled right after I got the diploma.
I’m from Columbus, so Ohio State is a permanent condition. My daughter went to UMass, played in the band, had a great time, so did we going to all the games and band shows, and I love the place. Much of my wife’s family is in Greenville NC, where my BIL teaches at ECU, so I’m fond of them too.
My college didn’t have a team. My wife, however, is a legitimate fan of Iowa and i have become one by proxy. I don’t really care about any other teams, but do like it when Auburn or any Texas team looses.
Chingon: on the rare chance they play each other, how would you root? Personally, I’d root for K-State, for Chamberlain reasons. (“Nobody roots for Goliath”)
I could also mention that my mother worked for many years in a life-insurance business owned by a former OSU basketball player, who brought a lot of Buckeye athletes in to sell them policies. They never had a more loyal fan, even though she didn’t go there. But, along the way, she learned to hate Michigan State (not Michigan though), so I kinda do too.
I also half-assedly follow University of Texas, because my father-in-law is an alum, and we talk football fairly often.
I keep tabs on the rest of the SEC, just to have an idea of who A&M is going to play, but I don’t usually watch any one team’s games or anything like that.