<p>Sybbie: root for rugby at Dartmouth!</p>
<p>Hubby roots for UCLA, but D calls every week from the Cal game(undefeated so far) not that we can hear anything, we know it is her from the rowdy crowd sounds :)</p>
<p>A2Wolves + Ivy League loyals - the entity to root for in the Ivy League is the marching band. Ditto for Stanford. NO ONE in the Ivy League leaves their seats during half time - best part of the show. Rooting for the team is optional bonus.</p>
<p>Sac–no need to apologize; S would prefer to see Columbia win, but sure doesn’t expect it. But he’s born and raised Michigan, and that’s really his team.</p>
<p>Though hey, don’t discount that Columbia fencing team! :)</p>
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<p>I root for Yale, especially when they play Harvard.</p>
<p>D,a musician,went out to ASU never having paid attention to a football game in her life. She did attend a few out there and admitted it was “fun” and the spirit surrounding them (Sun Devils) was great on the campus. A cannon goes off when they score which is heard all over the campus.She did graduate last June having become a basketball fan(college and NBA) which surprises us and her no end.</p>
<p>Great reponses. I liked lderochi’s.</p>
<p>There were so really fun games yesterday–UCLA-OK; Michigan State-ND; Fl-TN. Did any of you see the first quarter of the USC game? Something like 8 plays to get four TDs.</p>
<p>As a Cornell Alum, I have been trained not to expect much from football, but I was pleased to see UC Davis teaching Stanford a lesson with a last second touchdown to win the game.</p>
<p>Garland:</p>
<p>I have actually been to a Columbia football game, at least two that I can remember. Back in the, well nevermind the actual date, when Rutgers regularly played Princeton, Penn, and Columbia, several of us drove to NYC from New Brunswick for a game with Columbia. Was it in the Baker Bowl?</p>
<p>Then in 19xx Rutgers secured an undefeated season by coming behind at Rutgers stadium to beat Columbia. That was a great game.</p>
<p>Maize:</p>
<p>My boss’ boss used to be on the athletic management council at Madison. They must still think she is because they give her four free tickets for each home football games. With the exception of the Michigan game, which she keeps for herself, she distributes the rest to the staff. At the beginning of the season she asks who would like tickets for what games. I was going to be in town for the Michigan, Iowa, and Temple games. One guess which game I got tickets for. It was pretty pathetic. I left the stadium at the half with UW leading Temple 51-0 and the temperature in the 90s. </p>
<p>Last year another Vice Chancellor gave me his personal tickets to the Michigan-UW basketball game. Other then a chance to see Kohl Center and what a crowd was like at a UW basketball game, it was almost as pathetic as the Temple football game. For a school with such a great basketball tradition, UM had an unbelievably bad team last year.</p>
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<p>Go Aggies!! UC Davis was Div. II when I was there. They are now part way through a four-year transition to becoming Div I-AA. I guess that means they have started offering athletic scholarships, which did not exist in my day.</p>
<p>Well, we rooted for Duke’s basketball team for many, many years prior to our son’s attending school there! 
We will continue to do so with more enthusiasm than ever this year, and we hope to catch glimpses of our blue -n- white painted Cameron Crazie on T.V. :)</p>
<p>As for football, yes, of course we root for the football team also! When we we went to orientation, we ran across a large group of the football players who were all very charming and who graciously posed for a nice pic for my middle son! Can’t NOT root for those sweeties! ~berurah</p>
<p>tsdad: Agree that UM BB isn’t as fun to watch. UM is all about football and hockey. Make sure you get to a UW hockey game. College hockey and their student fans are an interesting breed. The UM BB program has been surrounded by controversy and subject to probation since winning a National Championship in 1989. S didn’t attend one BB game while there, just like his father didn’t attend one USC BB game years ago because SC was a football school. When H registered each year, he would get a coupon book that contained tickets to home games at the Coliseum and a coupon to redeem for Rose Bowl tickets (how presumptuous of them!). 3 out of his 4 years there, he was at the Rose Bowl on Jan 1. UCLA finally ended that the fourth year!</p>
<p>Let’s hear it for the “Furious Smithereens”! ;)</p>
<p>(For 20 years, I made it a policy of only giving my measly alumni contribution in years the school had a losing football team. As they were the wininngnest football team in Divison III, over time I saved a lot of dough.)</p>
<p>(P.S. Losing builds character. ;))</p>
<p>Hard not to get caught up in the excitement of the Monon Bell game, DePauw (D’s school) versus Wabash - been happening for over 100 years (I think). Last year, the game was at Wabash, in tiny Crawfordsville, IN. Wabash has ~1000 students, DePauw has 2300 and there were over 10,000 people there to see the game. Crazy!!</p>
<p>Maize:</p>
<p>It was 42-18 UW at half. USC basketball may be in for a change for the positive with a new coach and new the Galen Center <a href=“http://www.usc.edu/neighborhoods/galencenter/[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/neighborhoods/galencenter/</a></p>
<p>I do! D’s in the matching band, and the better the team does, the more they’ll get picked up on national tv - saw her in the 1st game!</p>
<p>Cool! I’m in the marching band too (which is quite an interesting experience considering I’d never done marching band in hs, but sort of fun too). The games have been televised but on some random channel (ESPNU??) so I don’t think my parents have had the opportunity to see me yet.</p>