Need your help.....!!!...Who has.....

[SwissTitansFan]

....more supporters nationwide.....Notre Dame or Alabama...????

What would you say....???.....Is there a link with an estimate...???

Thanks for your help....and your opinion....

[Sect309Fan]

Here is an interesting article that came out in September 2011. http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/19/us/fivethirtyeight-0919-geocolfootball-fans/fivethirtyeight-0919-geocolfootball-fans-blog480.png

[Johnnyb]

Yeah.... somehow I seriously doubt that poll because there was an poll done in Alabama to determine how many Alabama vs. Auburn supporters and it came up that Alabama had more supporters 2 to 1 over AU.

Click Here (http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/08/its_alabamas_state_auburns_jus.html)

As for the question, I'd say probably ND, but Alabama has a pretty serious following.

[Sect309Fan]

The article I used had 30,000 responses over the past few year, going all across the nation. The Alabama poll had just a few hundred responses.

Alabama certainly has a strong fan base, but it is still a Southern fan base. Notre Dame is a true national fan base.

I suppose Ohio State has the largest fan base in the country because it is the main school in that area, and there are so many college followers there. The South loves college football too, but the the fanbase is split among all the schools.

Now if you asked how many people cheer for Alabama over Texas in a bowl game, I bet there would more cheering for Bama. SEC fans are an interesting group that often cheer for their hated rivals in big games against non-SEC foes (which I love). Ohio State fans aren't going to cheer for Michigan, but a UT fan would cheer for Florida or Bama.

[Johnnyb]

The article I used had 30,000 responses over the past few year, going all across the nation. The Alabama poll had just a few hundred responses.

Alabama certainly has a strong fan base, but it is still a Southern fan base. Notre Dame is a true national fan base.

I suppose Ohio State has the largest fan base in the country because it is the main school in that area, and there are so many college followers there. The South loves college football too, but the the fanbase is split among all the schools.

Now if you asked how many people cheer for Alabama over Texas in a bowl game, I bet there would more cheering for Bama. SEC fans are an interesting group that often cheer for their hated rivals in big games against non-SEC foes (which I love). Ohio State fans aren't going to cheer for Michigan, but a UT fan would cheer for Florida or Bama.

Not saying the overall list is wrong... just seriously doubt the Alabama/Auburn number there haha. Kind of an aside I suppose. Also that Poll was done after Auburns championship, wonder what it would be now.

But yes you are correct, it's kind of like brothers in the SEC, we can pick on each other but no one outside of us better or they'll have hell to pay haha.

[Comar]

The article I used had 30,000 responses over the past few year, going all across the nation. The Alabama poll had just a few hundred responses.

Alabama certainly has a strong fan base, but it is still a Southern fan base. Notre Dame is a true national fan base.

I suppose Ohio State has the largest fan base in the country because it is the main school in that area, and there are so many college followers there. The South loves college football too, but the the fanbase is split among all the schools.

Now if you asked how many people cheer for Alabama over Texas in a bowl game, I bet there would more cheering for Bama. SEC fans are an interesting group that often cheer for their hated rivals in big games against non-SEC foes (which I love). Ohio State fans aren't going to cheer for Michigan, but a UT fan would cheer for Florida or Bama.

Not this UT fan! Never.

[JimOkc]

....more supporters nationwide.....Notre Dame or Alabama...????

What would you say....???.....Is there a link with an estimate...???

Thanks for your help....and your opinion....

This may not help to answer your question but I think it is info worth pondering.

Notre Dame is independent of conference traditionally.

In 1991 NBC signed a contract with Notre Dame Football, the initial contract was sold to NBC for $38 million for 5 years or $1.2 million a game. Notre Dame got half of the latter figure and its opponent got the other half. In June 2008, NBC signed a contract extension, which covered from 2011 to 2015.

Prior to that time, the television contract structure was different. There were different rules on how many times a program could be televised during a certain time period, how many times a program could be televised to a national audience, etc... In my memory, televised games were more regional as compared nowdays.

To my knowledge, the above mentioned contract, was the first of its kind and paved the way for the TV contracts nowdays. They definitely have a major nationwide (and some may argue worldwide) fanbase.

[Fairweather Fan]

What is with all the fan support for the Big Ten? The SEC is the consensus best conference. You would think that would translate to fan support.

[Sect309Fan]

What is with all the fan support for the Big Ten? The SEC is the consensus best conference. You would think that would translate to fan support.

I bet the SEC has more fans. It is just distributed more evenly among the 12 (now 14) schools, while the Big 10 love is mostly for Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan. There are also bigger populations in Big 10 country than the South.

[Johnnyb]

Or it's possible that more people in the north voted on that site? I still question that survey's validity since it was done with just an online vote and not a sampling from each region. Remember, stats are only as good as the numbers put into them.

Also remember there's lies, damn lies, and statistics.

[Jones31]

Stats are like light posts for drunks.. "something to lean on."

[Sect309Fan]

Or it's possible that more people in the north voted on that site? I still question that survey's validity since it was done with just an online vote and not a sampling from each region. Remember, stats are only as good as the numbers put into them.

Also remember there's lies, damn lies, and statistics.

The entire state of Alabama has only 4.8 million people. Ohio has 11 million people. I feel pretty confident that there are a lot more Ohio State fans than Alabama fans, since most fans are going to come from the home state.

[ZachLV27]

That list makes perfect sense when you look at simple stuff like population and tradition (from a national standard).