re: Top 15 most loyal college fanbases

While I doubt you only saw 5% of the flags and stickers in the panhandle that you do now, I don't think the article in the OP was measuring the size of the bandwagon fan base of any of the teams. My impression was that he was looking at the core fanbase, the fans that show up to good and bad games, travel well, etc. If I remember correctly, we still had a multi-year wait list for season tickets even during the Shula years.

Any team that is as successful as Bama has been the last few years is going to have bandwagoners all over the country, no way to avoid it.