Josh Pate has Ohio State football on list it probably doesn't want to be on
Sometimes people just don't like a winner. People love to hate on teams like the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Lakers, Kansas City Chiefs in the professional ranks, but it also spills over to the college game. Nobody except Duke fans seem to pull for the Blue Devils, and Alabama was arguably the most hated college football team during its dominant run under Nick Saban.
I guess you can count Ohio State football in that same team picture, at least according to Josh Pate of CBS Sports. Why? Pate had a segment on his popular 'College Football Show' detailing the five most-hated college football programs, and you guessed it, the Buckeyes were in the mix.
According to Pate:
"Ohio State made this list for me,” Pate said. “The reason I think enough people nationally hate Ohio State is because they win, obviously. But also, I gather through my correspondence with my audience, that everyone respected the run they just made in the playoff, but not everyone respected that they lost two games and still got that shot. A lot of people viewed Ohio State as this huge beneficiary of the new format, which they were, but I don’t hate them for that. A lot of you do hate them for that.
“A lot of you hate them because you hear a lot of whining when things don’t go their way. You say the same thing about Bama, by the way. The most consistent bits of feedback I got about Ohio State and Bama was either they win a game or they got 15 excuses why they lost the game.
“But, yeah I put Ohio State up there, too, because they made a run, they won a title – you got folks out there, and this part of the argument I don’t buy into, but their are a bunch of folks who say, ‘Well, I could win a title if I bought a class.’ Yeah, you couldn’t. And they didn’t in that way. In the way that’s suggested, they didn’t.”
But never fear Scarlet and Gray-clad fans. Michigan was also discussed as a team that's hated by many as was Texas, Alabama, and Miami (FL), in no particular order. The Wolverines make a lot of sense with all of the drama and controversy surrounding the program these days, and so do bluebloods Alabama and Texas. We're not quite sure why Miami is in there other than the past history and ego from yesteryear that might be hard to shake off, but alas -- this is just an opinion piece from Pate anyhow.
If you didn't catch this segment, have a watch and listen to what he had to say about those five teams.
The bottom line here is that you'd rather give opposing fanbases a reason to hate by piling up wins. Remember, nobody hates teams like Northwestern or Kansas, right (no offense to those programs)?
This article originally appeared on Buckeyes Wire: Josh Pate names Ohio State as one of five most hated college programs
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