OT: Do you have a "second" college football or basketball team?

Football: I've followed Florida since Spurrier PLAYED there.
Basketball: I've followed Kentucky since the mid-60s.
I'm currently old and cranky, so don't judge me.

Live in CT.  Went to UM, daughter went to UM, son is at UConn now.  We all went to both football games so there was some minor tension.  Guy sitting next to me at the game here had the exact same situation so it was all fun.

Yes.

Headed there after Ann Arbor for wife's grad school. Went to some bball and football games. Kind of took a shine to them. I watch and root for them when I'm not busy rooting for Michigan.

GO BLUE!!!
go bears.

UVA for football (currently atrocious but good tradition) and bball (Tony Bennett!). I went there for undergrad and Michigan for three years of grad school. If these two ever met in a meaningful football game I'm not sure what I'd do.

BGSU is my second team. Really only for football and hockey. I am an alumni and lived there throughout the year while in school. The city is actually pretty nice. A real diverse blend of old town feel and new town feel. Some pretty good bars, of course there are a few terrible ones as well.

Pitt. Although mostly for Basketball

Grand Valley State (where I was an undergraduate) The miscellaneous southern school that pays me to work in their athletic department. Gonzaga Basketball (I was eight years old when they made that elite 8 run) Hawaii athletics (I just like Hawaii)

For football, I would probably say Oregon based on their fun, uptempo style of play.

For basketball, I find myself routing for Wichita State whenever I'm watching a game they're involved in.

At the end of the day though, I honestly don't care about any teams other than Michigan football and Michigan basketball.

A few of my buddies moved to Boulder way back when.  I visited them a few times and had a great time out there and decided to adopt the Buffaloes as my second team.  However, I decided to drop that temporary allegiance the evening of 9/24/94.  As for now, maybe Wayne State.

WMU. My friend's dad is a coach on Fleck's staff so I root for them to do well.

I have a dirty secret - I quietly root for teams to beat all the teams the rest of my family support because we have sucked so long in football.

Kansas. The wife has family ties there and Central Michigan. That's where I went.

Arizona State. Lived there for a little while and always liked their uniforms and location. Strange reasons, sure, but I like em. Go Blue forever though! Nobody is a close second.

Colorado State

My Dad went there.

Actually, I'm a big Coach K admirer. True, Duke seems to get more than its share of favorable ref calls, but that appears to be true of most traditional powerhouse programs. Can't blame Coach K for that. Plus he does an admirable job with our Olympic team of pampered prima donnas. I think it says a lot about the man that he garners the respect of the Olympic teams.

Home of Tommy Amaker.

I used to like going to Akron U games since I grew up going to them. But ever since they built the giant money pit and started charging much higher for tickets I never go. My mom was working for them and they spent a fortune on season tickets every year. Seriously $2000 for Akron U??!? but now that this new president is running the University into the ground she bailed and retired and they told them to go f themselves on the tickets. Not sure I'll even follow them anymore.

Minnesota. GO GOPHS!

I started liking them when they sucked, to "reverse bandwagon", so to speak. And now look, my investment paid off. Im a part-time fan of an above average team.

Cal. It's where my parents met. Still remember that somber conversation I had with my parents when I decided to stay in Ann Arbor for college rather than fulfill my lifelong dream of going to Cal. Looking back, in almost every way it was the right choice. Only problem is now I want to move to California for residency and it would be a whole lot easier had I gone to med school there (which woulda been easier had I gone to Cal.)

Stanford

Lots of family ties to the Cardinal, plus they run a clean athletic program that actually takes academics seriously.

No, Hell No!

I like Georgetown in bball and I don't have another football team I root for.

I see them as a peer institution (not a peer athletic department, mind you) in a comparable league. The bears are also usually underdogs, so I am psyched to root for them against perennial bullies USC, as well as random other teams that I don't like including Oregon, UCLA, Zona and Stanford.

The upshot is that I have been weirdly conflicted about the Jaylen Brown situation. Commiting to CalI means I will actually get to watch him play in person this year, but obviously this still sucks and pisses me off.

 

My family has adopted UMD football as our D-2 alternative. They've been good every year we've been here and the games are fun to watch; hard to find games to attend that don't conflict with Michigan games, though.

I am kinda sorta sympathetic to them in hockey, too, and I've gone to games. Harder to really like them after St. Paul a couple of years ago, though. That stung more than I thought it would.

basketball....no. football....not really. I do try to watch Arizona's games because I love watching the offense but I don't much care if they win or lose.

UCLA For football. I worked there. UNC basketball. Great history and they always blow out Sparty.

I liked Boise St. for personal, comic reasons when they were atrocious so I liked when they became a power.....for a while. Now? Kinda don't like them as the charm has worn off. I think the blue field is no longer "so crazy it's neat" and should be banned (same for all colored fields). Just not into them anymore even in a joking way unless it helps UM somehow. I have a soft spot for much of the MAC teams based in Michigan and Ohio - not to the point of caring at all but when they would play a "power program" tough I enjoy it. Though, I'm a BG over Toledo guy. I'd exclude Toledo as I don't hate them but other than having a few friends play for them over the years, a few players I liked, etc, I'm not into them. Liking BG and losing to them under RR didn't help. I actually respected msu as a kid until the "EL Longest Second" game! I didn't hate them and liked when they won when not playing Michigan! I never rooted for them or cared when they lost but outside of UM games I preferred if they'd win in both football & basketball. After that game (I was a late teen at the time and easily 15 yrs into HARDCORE UM fandom, btw!) I issued a fan and moral fatwa against msu. I went from not liking but not hating them to boiling rage. The revenge beating we have them the next year was beautiful. I respected psu for longer than I should have. I didn't like them or care but I felt like they "did things right".....yeah. I started disliking them a bit before we found out they were the worst kind of humans but after that I now downright hate them. They're about even with ND for me, tbh. There fans are either insane, osu level maniacs or completely cool so it's tough but I can't not hate a program that didn't give themselves a couple year death penalty when that broke. How could I like a collective fan base that had a riot in favor of Paterno, etc? I now have zero respect for them and I know it's not the player's fault but they have to be innocent bystanders in my hatred of psu. Not a fan and invest zero concern but always had a soft spot for Syracuse and VTech. BASKETBALL? Gonzaga the same as Boise in football. Liked them when the scrappy underdog but now a perennial power I am indifferent. Georgetown, maybe? I had a Starter jacket as a kid so....lol.

CFB - Washington (Couldn't tell you why)
CBB - North Carolina

I used to always root for msu, but not ever again. I figured they were mostly kids from Michigan so what the hell? Now I have had a good sample of how the sparty fans are and I will always root for whoever is playing them, unless it's osu. I thought spartys were bad losers , but they are even worse winners!

That is all.

I always kinda like Clemson.