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Alabama Crimson Tide fanbase ranked No. 2 among colleges

By Ronald Evans

TUSCALOOSA, AL - SEPTEMBER 22: Alabama Crimson Tide fans cheer on their team while playing against the Florida Atlantic Owls on September 22, 2012 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Alabama defeated Florida Atlantic 40-7. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images)
TUSCALOOSA, AL - SEPTEMBER 22: Alabama Crimson Tide fans cheer on their team while playing against the Florida Atlantic Owls on September 22, 2012 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Alabama defeated Florida Atlantic 40-7. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) /
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The Alabama Crimson Tide fanbase is ranked No. 2 in college fanbases and No. 8 overall in the Fandom 250, the ultimate ranking of sports and entertainment fandoms.

As part of the Fandom 250, FanSided rated the top 25 college fanbases. The Alabama Crimson Tide is one of only five SEC schools to make the list.

  1. Ohio State Buckeyes
  2. Alabama Crimson Tide
  3. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
  4. North Carolina Tar Heels
  5. Oklahoma Sooners
  6. Kentucky Wildcats
  7. Duke Blue Devils
  8. Clemson Tigers
  9. USC Trojans
  10. Penn State Nittany Lions
  11. Michigan Wolverines
  12. Kansas Jayhawks
  13. Wisconsin Badgers
  14. Florida State Seminoles
  15. Florida Gators
  16. Texas Longhorns
  17. LSU Tigers
  18. Tennessee Volunteers
  19. North Dakota State Bison
  20. Washington Huskies
  21. Louisville Cardinals
  22. UCLA Bruins
  23. Nebraska Cornhuskers
  24. East Mississippi community college

To see where these 24 college fanbases rank amongst the other fandoms on the list, check out the full Fandom 250 list.

What is the FanSided Fandom 250?

The Fandom 250 is the ultimate ranking of fandoms. From sports teams and movie franchises to Instagram celebrities and brands, if something has an avid, sometimes rabid, fanbase, FanSided wants to honor those fans and — in the spirit of healthy competition — rank ‘em.

What say you Crimson Tide fans?

Being No.2 is noteworthy but it is not being No. 1. For many Crimson Tide fans, any and all rankings of anything Crimson have two categories. Being No. 1 or everything below being No. 1. That is the legacy of a football program that is No. 1 in national championships.

That national championship legacy in football has defined the goals of all Crimson Tide sports programs. With additional national championships in gymnastics, softball, men’s and women’s golf the Crimson Tide fanbase demands an annual pursuit of becoming No. 1.

Check out how the FanSided team acknowledged the Alabama Crimson Tide as No. 2 and No. 8 overall, Crimson Tide No. 8.

In some ways being acknowledged as the No. 1 fanbase in the SEC is better than being No.2 on the college list or No. 8 on the full Fandom 250 list. Not that fans from other conferences will agree or even understand but the SEC is the ultimate in college football. And the Crimson Tide, as FanSided recognizes, is the ultimate in the SEC.

So for once maybe we Crimson Tide fans can accept being No. 2 (or No. 8) as an honor rather than as a failure. Congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeyes fanbase for being named No. 1. It is a good consolation prize for not making the CFB Playoff.

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For readers who don’t make the connection, FanSided is a division of Time Inc. that includes more than 300 fan-oriented websites for sports and entertainment fans. Bama Hammer is one of the sites in the FanSided network.

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