By Mark Pszonak
You can thank Action Network for putting together a listing of the most “cringe” fanbase in college sports. But schools like Georgia, Ohio State and Alabama aren’t as thankful since they top the list, with the Bulldogs leading the way.
The data was put together by analyzing thousands of social media posts on X and Reddit using Brandwatch. Georgia topped the list with 15,640 cringe-related posts. Who voted on what is or isn’t “cringe” is unknown, but the results are still interesting.
Here are the top 25 schools on the list:
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Alabama
- Kentucky
- Tennessee
- Michigan
- Penn State
- Indiana
- Notre Dame
- Iowa
- Clemson
- Oklahoma
- Michigan State
- UConn
- Colorado
- Minnesota
- California
- LSU
- Purdue
- South Carolina
- Missouri
- Miami-Florida
- Utah
- Nebraska
- USC
While the SEC has four of the top five most “cringe” schools, the Big Ten is the most cringe conference with ten schools, followed by the SEC with eight, the ACC with three, the Big 12 has two and Notre Dame and UConn hit the list as independents.
Also, there are some larger programs that somewhat surprisingly are not on the list, such as Texas, Florida State, Texas A&M, Oregon and Florida. I guess their fanbases need to step up their online vitriol to move up the list for next year.
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Personally I’d like to thank Action Network for such impressive June content.
