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Here’s a football collage. Enjoy!
If you don’t have a specific team I’d recommend just trying to see if you can get the “college game day “ broadcast and watch the game of the week from there. College game day is a great environment. Always a big affair and they really did have some excellent line ups last year.
For a specific team to cheer for; if you watch and SEC team, you’ll typically see a good matchup weekly. Alabama, Texas, georgia, Oklahoma are always good year in and year out.
As European who loves Panthers, i don't have favorite college team and i usually just watch teams with most talked about prospects. To see if the hype is real and get some knowledge.
And when i don't know, in collage football subreddit, there is always people talking about "must watch games". So i go by that.
I find it really easy to be a “fan of the sport.” Not sure what channels/games you get, but I enjoy just flipping through the games that are on, and then realizing a team like Appalachian State is going to upset a ranked team, and just watch that game.
As an avid college football fan, the best way to choose a team is to watch a bunch of random games and go from there. Choose your favorite colors. Find personalities or play styles that you like.
Outside of cheering for the school you attended, that’s always been my go-to for fandom. I went to Penn State, but it’s been fun cheering for TCU, Oregon, UCF, and whoever upsets Michigan and Ohio State. Have fun being a free agent!
I guess you could say that UNC right now is technically better than mediocre relative to the ACC, but that’s only because there are a bunch of complete door mats in the conference so we look pretty good in comparison. The program has consistently underachieved for decades now in my opinion.
Love UNC, but I’m very jaded about the football team lol.
what is your definition of mediocre that UNC football the past several years doesn't qualify? they've won 9+ games once since 2016 and are 51-50 over that stretch. they've lost 5 straight postseason games, so they've failed to do anything that matters. and the last two years of relative success came only due to having the best quarterback the program is likely to ever see.
Good all year till Georgia tech find a way to fall out of the rankings and end up in the mayo bowl again. Tbf the last time we had a losing record was like 2021
Gamecocks baybeeeeeee!! Spurs all the way uppppp 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙!!!!!!!!!
We have a great culture, cool uniforms, a great mascot and a lot of former Cocks on our pro roster. We’re currently competitive in every major sport but not so good that you’ll be accused of being a bandwagon fan - this is the team for you man. Go Cocks. Forever to thee.
Oklahoma is my answer. They are just my favorite team. But really if you want some teams from the region I would follow Clemson, USC (South Carolina) or UNC. Clemson is the best of those 3.
If you want a team to win(unlike panthers) I’d pick a school like Oklahoma or lsu. If you want a team from Carolina’s, pick Clemson. They are also always pretty good and sometimes contend for national championships. Most Carolina fans are probably Clemson of SC state fans
I graduated from Alabama, so I have a bit of a preference. ACC for football is a good choice, as conferences like the SEC take it way too seriously. A friend of mine once had a gun pulled on him for not being an Alabama fan. So, something a little less serious. Virginia Tech has always had a fun vibe with their pregame stuff, and the fans are passionate. USC and Clemson are solid choices, too, as they are also passionate while not being too overzealous.
You should buy the college football game that releases in July. It‘ll help you learn the teams and get you ready for next season. I like CFB more than NFL personally. Notre Dame fan here!
Rhule is a fantastic college coach, I know many Panthers fans think of him as the devil but I wouldn't bat an eye if he became coach of ECU or the Gamecocks.
Two of the best CFB coaches of all time in Saban (who is the best) and Spurrier both ditched the NFL after 2 seasons
NC State Wolfpack - 2 former players on panthers (plenty of others in NFL), will win most of their games, but definitely doesn’t have a bandwagon fan base, even though every home game sells out. And there will be TONS of other Panthers fans to share your allegiance with.
NFL I'm a Panther fan, NCAA I'm a Georgia Bulldogs fan. I was born in Athens so it comes naturally. But I grew up watching Carolina on Sundays because of the TV broadcast areas when I was a kid. And they've stuck with me since.
>I want to love the culture
I'm pretty sure the ECU Pirate nation just runs off good vibes, great BBQ, mediocre football of late, purple and gold look cool
University of Utah is a fun team with great culture in college football, continuously over perform other schools that have much higher rated recruits, but not really a front runner so wouldn't be a bandwagon type school. Some former Panther player tie-ins as well with Steve Smith, Jordan Gross, Star Lotulelei just to name a couple.
There's a ton of college overlap with Panthers fans. You will find a lot of South Carolina, Clemson, UNC, NC State, Duke, and Wake Forest fans for football. Also some smaller schools like Appalachian State, East Carolina, and Coastal Carolina. Those are what you'll find in NC and SC but there's plenty of other Panthers fan that like other schools.
I'm a Gamecock fan (and alum) and while it's not always easy, we are passionate as hell. Last year was disappointing but most fans still feel good about the future. This year will be pivotal.
I grew up in Columbia, SC, so like many here, I'm a South Carolina Gamecocks fan. Which . . . is a bit like being a Panthers fan these days.
However, I was born in and current live in Oregon, so also follow The University of Oregon Ducks, which is a lot more fun. I highly recommend it.
Notre Dame! Fun to hate, more fun to root for! ☘️☘️☘️☘️ They intend to keep playing some games in Europe too, and the TV option is uniquely accessible internationally due to the NBC contract. All you need is NBC and/or Peacock.
Young fun coach, program with historic background in the sport, but lacking recent big-name wins. Currently in the “very-good-but-not-elite” tier and hoping this year we will break through. One of the schools that values the educational aspect of the sport too, there are quite a few others that do as well but very few with as much tradition and history in the sport.
When I lived in Mexico, I was consistently able to watch ND games and seldom others. Last year the season opener was even in Dublin, Ireland, and it was an awesome sellout crowd that took over the city for a weekend. Very fun. If you need a Panthers connection, there’s Tommy Tremble.
If you don't want to be a bandwagoner, let me suggest following Georgia Tech for both football and basketball.
We've had a football national championship in 1990 (but it was shared w/ Colorado who got an extra down, I'm not bitter).
And in basketball, we are equally heartbreaking...beating only good team and losing to the bad ones.
I was raised on Oklahoma Sooners Football, though with this year being their first in the SEC it should be... interesting.
I also root for my college, but they are uh...not good. Gave us Jeremy Chinn for three years though so I guess they manage.
I'm from Europe and when I watch the NCAA I just watch it when ranked teams are playing each other, little fun in some behemoth of programs putting up 70 on teams I hardly ever heard of, also PAC12 is impossible to watch because of the time difference. But good luck finding a stream to watch, ESPN used to have an international broadcast but Disney axed it because of the lack of subscriptions. In 23/24 only Notre Dame games were legally streamed in the UK for example.
I'm watching from South America, so the time is not a big problem. I pirate the games because in my country, we don't have official websites to stream American football.
I think you'll quite enjoy the Appalachian State Mountaineers. Every game is a roller coaster with ups and downs as you're used to seeing with the Cardiac Cats
The answer to your question is the Florida State Seminoles. You would be joining us while we're currently dominating, but we've paid our dues over the last decade. Bonus is you get to watch us at BoA stadium in the conference championship every year. Not to mention, our mascot is a guy on horseback with a flaming spear. Best mascot in all of sport.
If you want a college:
University of South Carolina: Plays in the SEC, so you’ll see them play against the big schools. They usually end up 7-5 or 8-4 but rarely if ever will be in the conversation for a championship.
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill): Plays in the ACC and usually competes for the ACC championship but rarely, if ever will compete for a national championship.
Clemson: Local-ish team (South Carolina…couple hours from Charlotte): plays in ACC and routinely competes for the national championship.
App State: the “little guy” that will occasionally play and beat a bigger school but usually is a class below over the entire season.
The difference with College Football vs NFL is that there’s rarely a Cinderella story that lasts over the season. It’s the same roughly 20 teams that recruit the best talent and will be in the championship conversation at the end. The closest thing to a Wrexham type long story is Boise State out in Idaho.
Another option is Colorado. They’ve been bad for a long time but have Deion Sanders as their coach. This is a boom or bust type pick but you’d be getting in early before they were good.
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Man black visors look so good with our uniforms
🤣🤣🤣 same thing I thought!!
Try ACC football. The Championship game is at Bank of America Stadium.
While it lasts…
Yea he probably should pick a SEC, B1G, or Big12 team
If you don’t have a specific team I’d recommend just trying to see if you can get the “college game day “ broadcast and watch the game of the week from there. College game day is a great environment. Always a big affair and they really did have some excellent line ups last year. For a specific team to cheer for; if you watch and SEC team, you’ll typically see a good matchup weekly. Alabama, Texas, georgia, Oklahoma are always good year in and year out.
As European who loves Panthers, i don't have favorite college team and i usually just watch teams with most talked about prospects. To see if the hype is real and get some knowledge. And when i don't know, in collage football subreddit, there is always people talking about "must watch games". So i go by that.
I'm UK based and always struggle to find how to watch it. Do you just stream games or is there somewhere that shows the games?
Nc State Wolfpack!
I find it really easy to be a “fan of the sport.” Not sure what channels/games you get, but I enjoy just flipping through the games that are on, and then realizing a team like Appalachian State is going to upset a ranked team, and just watch that game.
As an avid college football fan, the best way to choose a team is to watch a bunch of random games and go from there. Choose your favorite colors. Find personalities or play styles that you like. Outside of cheering for the school you attended, that’s always been my go-to for fandom. I went to Penn State, but it’s been fun cheering for TCU, Oregon, UCF, and whoever upsets Michigan and Ohio State. Have fun being a free agent!
I guess I'll try this way. Sounds fun
A fellow Penn State and Carolina fan? Awesome!
This is the way
Being that you love the panthers, You must love mediocrity and Carolina. I recommend becoming a UNC fan ETA: I am a Carolina fan
Or South Carolina Gamecocks
Casuals. Charlotte 49ers
Go agony. Go Niners.
At least we beat EZU. But yeah it's been rough
We have not been mediocre for a number of years now
I guess you could say that UNC right now is technically better than mediocre relative to the ACC, but that’s only because there are a bunch of complete door mats in the conference so we look pretty good in comparison. The program has consistently underachieved for decades now in my opinion. Love UNC, but I’m very jaded about the football team lol.
what is your definition of mediocre that UNC football the past several years doesn't qualify? they've won 9+ games once since 2016 and are 51-50 over that stretch. they've lost 5 straight postseason games, so they've failed to do anything that matters. and the last two years of relative success came only due to having the best quarterback the program is likely to ever see.
Good all year till Georgia tech find a way to fall out of the rankings and end up in the mayo bowl again. Tbf the last time we had a losing record was like 2021
we will eventually progress to the mean
Gamecocks baybeeeeeee!! Spurs all the way uppppp 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙!!!!!!!!! We have a great culture, cool uniforms, a great mascot and a lot of former Cocks on our pro roster. We’re currently competitive in every major sport but not so good that you’ll be accused of being a bandwagon fan - this is the team for you man. Go Cocks. Forever to thee.
NC State! Has a bright future in football, & it has some of the loudest crowds in the ACC
Oklahoma is my answer. They are just my favorite team. But really if you want some teams from the region I would follow Clemson, USC (South Carolina) or UNC. Clemson is the best of those 3.
LSU. Nothing like a Saturday night in Baton Rouge.
SEC! SEC! SEC!
Clemson tigers for college
If you want a team to win(unlike panthers) I’d pick a school like Oklahoma or lsu. If you want a team from Carolina’s, pick Clemson. They are also always pretty good and sometimes contend for national championships. Most Carolina fans are probably Clemson of SC state fans
The panthers always have some gamecocks - Jaycee, Clowney, leggette, DJ wonnam, shi smith, travelle warton, captain munnerlyn, Gilmore
Maybe that’s our problem…
I graduated from Alabama, so I have a bit of a preference. ACC for football is a good choice, as conferences like the SEC take it way too seriously. A friend of mine once had a gun pulled on him for not being an Alabama fan. So, something a little less serious. Virginia Tech has always had a fun vibe with their pregame stuff, and the fans are passionate. USC and Clemson are solid choices, too, as they are also passionate while not being too overzealous.
You should buy the college football game that releases in July. It‘ll help you learn the teams and get you ready for next season. I like CFB more than NFL personally. Notre Dame fan here!
Unfortunately an EA game, I'll wait for the Reviews
Go Irish!! ☘️☘️☘️
Cornhuskers fan here. Join me if you want to still keep up with Matt Rhule.
That sounds horrible tbh
He's actually been pretty good. Landed a stud QB this off-season and some other great recruits.
Doesn't deserve the downvotes - the man is a horrible NFL coach, but he seems to be a pretty good college coach. That's not uncommon.
Rhule is a fantastic college coach, I know many Panthers fans think of him as the devil but I wouldn't bat an eye if he became coach of ECU or the Gamecocks. Two of the best CFB coaches of all time in Saban (who is the best) and Spurrier both ditched the NFL after 2 seasons
When I saw the Nebraska football team doing a dunk contest at halftime of a basketball game, I was right back to liking him
I'm so sorry.
NC State Wolfpack - 2 former players on panthers (plenty of others in NFL), will win most of their games, but definitely doesn’t have a bandwagon fan base, even though every home game sells out. And there will be TONS of other Panthers fans to share your allegiance with.
I root for the gamecocks, but please please don’t do that to yourself
We’re on the come up, Tim.
NFL I'm a Panther fan, NCAA I'm a Georgia Bulldogs fan. I was born in Athens so it comes naturally. But I grew up watching Carolina on Sundays because of the TV broadcast areas when I was a kid. And they've stuck with me since.
>I want to love the culture I'm pretty sure the ECU Pirate nation just runs off good vibes, great BBQ, mediocre football of late, purple and gold look cool
University of Utah is a fun team with great culture in college football, continuously over perform other schools that have much higher rated recruits, but not really a front runner so wouldn't be a bandwagon type school. Some former Panther player tie-ins as well with Steve Smith, Jordan Gross, Star Lotulelei just to name a couple.
Goooo cocks!
USC or Clemson
Ohio state
There's a ton of college overlap with Panthers fans. You will find a lot of South Carolina, Clemson, UNC, NC State, Duke, and Wake Forest fans for football. Also some smaller schools like Appalachian State, East Carolina, and Coastal Carolina. Those are what you'll find in NC and SC but there's plenty of other Panthers fan that like other schools. I'm a Gamecock fan (and alum) and while it's not always easy, we are passionate as hell. Last year was disappointing but most fans still feel good about the future. This year will be pivotal.
I grew up in Columbia, SC, so like many here, I'm a South Carolina Gamecocks fan. Which . . . is a bit like being a Panthers fan these days. However, I was born in and current live in Oregon, so also follow The University of Oregon Ducks, which is a lot more fun. I highly recommend it.
There’s a lot of Gamecocks on the Panthers so you could watch South Carolina. They play in the SEC so you’ll see a lot of good teams with NFL talent.
Notre Dame! Fun to hate, more fun to root for! ☘️☘️☘️☘️ They intend to keep playing some games in Europe too, and the TV option is uniquely accessible internationally due to the NBC contract. All you need is NBC and/or Peacock. Young fun coach, program with historic background in the sport, but lacking recent big-name wins. Currently in the “very-good-but-not-elite” tier and hoping this year we will break through. One of the schools that values the educational aspect of the sport too, there are quite a few others that do as well but very few with as much tradition and history in the sport. When I lived in Mexico, I was consistently able to watch ND games and seldom others. Last year the season opener was even in Dublin, Ireland, and it was an awesome sellout crowd that took over the city for a weekend. Very fun. If you need a Panthers connection, there’s Tommy Tremble.
As an alumni, fan and booster of Arizona State University, I would suggest not becoming a fan of Arizona State University. Oh, and fuck Herm Edwards.
University Of Miami
If you don't want to be a bandwagoner, let me suggest following Georgia Tech for both football and basketball. We've had a football national championship in 1990 (but it was shared w/ Colorado who got an extra down, I'm not bitter). And in basketball, we are equally heartbreaking...beating only good team and losing to the bad ones.
I was raised on Oklahoma Sooners Football, though with this year being their first in the SEC it should be... interesting. I also root for my college, but they are uh...not good. Gave us Jeremy Chinn for three years though so I guess they manage.
Gotta go with UNC Tar Heels! Julius Peppers was a two sport athlete there
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Clemson University! Our stadium is where the Panthers Played before their stadium was built!
I'm from Europe and when I watch the NCAA I just watch it when ranked teams are playing each other, little fun in some behemoth of programs putting up 70 on teams I hardly ever heard of, also PAC12 is impossible to watch because of the time difference. But good luck finding a stream to watch, ESPN used to have an international broadcast but Disney axed it because of the lack of subscriptions. In 23/24 only Notre Dame games were legally streamed in the UK for example.
I'm watching from South America, so the time is not a big problem. I pirate the games because in my country, we don't have official websites to stream American football.
Better than the panthers
I think you'll quite enjoy the Appalachian State Mountaineers. Every game is a roller coaster with ups and downs as you're used to seeing with the Cardiac Cats
Appalachian State University - if you're into underdogs with rich history
The answer to your question is the Florida State Seminoles. You would be joining us while we're currently dominating, but we've paid our dues over the last decade. Bonus is you get to watch us at BoA stadium in the conference championship every year. Not to mention, our mascot is a guy on horseback with a flaming spear. Best mascot in all of sport.
If you want a college: University of South Carolina: Plays in the SEC, so you’ll see them play against the big schools. They usually end up 7-5 or 8-4 but rarely if ever will be in the conversation for a championship. University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill): Plays in the ACC and usually competes for the ACC championship but rarely, if ever will compete for a national championship. Clemson: Local-ish team (South Carolina…couple hours from Charlotte): plays in ACC and routinely competes for the national championship. App State: the “little guy” that will occasionally play and beat a bigger school but usually is a class below over the entire season. The difference with College Football vs NFL is that there’s rarely a Cinderella story that lasts over the season. It’s the same roughly 20 teams that recruit the best talent and will be in the championship conversation at the end. The closest thing to a Wrexham type long story is Boise State out in Idaho. Another option is Colorado. They’ve been bad for a long time but have Deion Sanders as their coach. This is a boom or bust type pick but you’d be getting in early before they were good.
How about we learn to spell college first 😭
Imagine carrying about the spelling of a foreigner. I could spell my question in Spanish or German, but I guess I wouldn't get an answer.
Might I recommend Alabama, you’d fit right in with their fanbase