For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college football teams by amount of happiness and misery served to the schools’ fans.
The rankings span 70 teams and consider more than a dozen metrics, including national championships, playoff appearances, conference titles, winning percentage, wins over ranked opponents and other markers of success. The goal: measure how fans would feel if they abandoned their irrational disposition and focused on how the performance of their team compares to other programs.
I’m not a college football fan, but during my first year at Cal, eager to hang out with new friends and strangers, I bought season tickets. Cal lost every game that year, except the very last one against Rutgers. Near maximum college football misery.
