re: nevermind

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It's Bama. and that's with my P&G glasses off.

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Not trying to offend you, but I don't think you've removed those P&G glasses as far as you think you have, because you appear to be giving very short shrift to Bama's national brand recognition nowadays. It's not just the sidewalk fans, it's the people who want, more than anything, to see Bama lose. Bama is currently up there with a couple others -- Notre Dame and Ohio State, I'd say -- in the group of programs that lots of people hate and lots of people admire but very few people have no real opinion on them. Success breeds that sort of interest on a national scale.

Clemson, on the other hand, has far less of a footprint on a national scale. I suspect that, other than actual Clemson fans, most people cheering for them were doing so in the same way lots of LSU and Auburn fans were cheering for them: by default because they were the only program in position to stop Bama. Most people didn't give a damn if they won or lost otherwise (USCe and FSU fans being the main exception, I guess.)