🏈 Why are you a Bama fan?

[252BAMA]

I know 55 points isn't the largest margin of victory for Bama. After all, when we continued the series with Auburn that was a 55-0 final. 61-6 seems more respectable. :congratulatory:

71 is the largest margin of victory against D1 teams, isn't it? Va Tech in '73 and Vandy in '45? (I know we beat Vandy over a century ago 78-0...but not sure if there was a such thing as D1, D2, etc. back then.)

Regardless, Vandy would be considered as the same classification, so I would go with that one. In looking back at those old scores, I see now why Bama chose to recognize some of those old teams as NC. Winning the Rose Bowl was all that was necessary because it was considered the NCG back then. But in addition to that, a couple of those teams put up some eye opening numbers. The 1925 team had 8 shut outs, giving up only 26 points, with 19 of those to Washington in the Rose Bowl. The 1930 team was simply awesome. They too had 8 shut outs, outscoring their opponents 271-13, the last seven of which had winning records for the season. Tennessee, which was 9-1 on the season, losing only to Bama, scored 6 on the Third Saturday in October; and Vanderbilt, which was 8-2 on the season, scored 7 the next week. The 18-6 win over Tennessee in 1930 was particularly impressive because this was in an era that UT was not giving up 18 points in a season, much less in one game. 1929 UT gave up only 13 points on the season. 1930 UT gave up only 13 points besides the 18 Bama put on them. 1931 UT gave up only 15 points on the season.

 

[RollTideinGA]

I was born that way. 1972 in Birmingham, I went to the first grade at Skyland Elementary in Tuscaloosa. That's where I met Steadman Shealy when he came to visit the school. My dad took me to my first games in 1978. I've been hooked every since. After leaving the Army I finally graduated from THE University of Alabama in 2010. And I've been a Tide Prider since 2001.

And now my kids are being raised under a Bama roof. And my wife has gone from not being a football fan to owning a jersey and several Bama tees. And she is anxious for the fall every year.

 

[Tide Rolling Through MD]

My story sucks compared to all of yours (probably based on location - cue bandwagon fan talk).

I became a fan fall 2007, when I was a freshman at a college in a small mountain town of mostly coal miners in western Maryland. I had went off to college with 2 friends my high school so we would hang out on Saturday's and he is an Alabama fan. I never really got into college football and only focused on being the die hard Redskins fan that I still am to this day. After watching Alabama play online, on a 13 inch laptop screen every Saturday I began to become more and more of a fan. This continued the whole 2007-2008 season and then my 2 friends dropped out and one transferred. I then began to watch the games during the 2008-2009 season alone in a dorm room through espn360 or where ever a website was streaming online. I continued watching games this way and became ecstatic with more and more games becoming televised. After watching these games on a computer screen I realized that I had actually begun rooting for this team that I have NO connection to, as neither of my parents/family graduated from Alabama or college in general. Since I did not have any family members graduate from college I felt no connection to root for any specific college team. This is what made me the crazy Alabama fan from Maryland with no connections to the area/university but just watched the games online. Within five years, I have gone from not being a college football fan to watching games on a computer screen and now will be attending the Cowboys Classic on September 1st making it my first live Crimson Tide football game. Roll Tide.

Sorry it's a pretty long response and am willing to take the bandwagon comments and everything in between.