For the Season 2 finale of We're Not All Like This, we talked to Galen Clavio, Kyle Robbins, and Homefield Apparel's own Connor Hitchcock about the importance of basketball in Indiana, the struggles of Hoosier football, the dominance of IU men's soccer, and what drives the hatred Indiana fans have for Kentucky. Be sure to check out the special We'r…

Syracuse fans have seen a lot in the last 30 years: a national title in men's basketball with Carmelo Anthony, a string of championships in lacrosse followed by something of a drought, and Donovan McNabb high-fiving a mom after a victory. (We'll explain that one at the end.) We talked to Sean Keeley, Ryan McDonnell, and Jeff Parrotte about the ups …

Mike Vernon, Sarah Kelly, and Alex Drude sit down with me to talk about what Kansas fans think about the post Texas/OU Big 12, the low point of Jayhawk football bottoming out, and the differences between the Kansas State and Mizzou rivalries. Be sure to check out the special We're Not All Like This selections on Homefield Apparel and use code LIKET…

The school that gave us Patrick Ewing, Allen Iverson, Dikembe Mutombo and Alonzo Mourning has been in a bit of dry spell (including one with Ewing as head coach!), so we talked to Patrick Monahan, John Hawkes, and Bobby Bancroft about where the Hoyas can go next, the whole thing with Providence and Ed Cooley, the Syracuse rivalry, and why Georgetow…

We talk to Ryan Rosenblatt, Nico Gervasoni, and Nathan Eberhardt about rooting for the Rose Bowl's regular-season occupant, how UCLA fans when Chip Kelly left to be Ohio State's offensive coordinator, whether the success the Bruins enjoy in non-revenue sports eases any of the other pain, and what makes the USC rivalry different. Be sure to check ou…

Why did A'ja Wilson mean so much to South Carolina fans? How has watching Clemson's meteoric rise to multiple national championships impacted the Gamecock faithful? Did they ever develop a genuine rival in the SEC East? And is Sandstorm good? Katie Dzwierzynski, Kyle Bishop, and Rick Johnston address those questions and many more on this episode. B…

Three fans - Ben Swain, Max Rego, and Shaker Samman - of one of the greatest villians in men's college basketball sat down with me to talk about whether Duke embraces the hate, what Kara Lawson has meant to the women's hoops team, who the most underrated Duke players ever are (and if such a thing exists), and what it's like being a basketball schoo…

Fan of Gonzaga men's basketball have gotten to see a lot of great things in the last couple of decades - 25 straight NCAA tournament bids, nine straight Sweet 16 appearances, and two runs to the last game of the year. But they haven't seen the Zags win a championship. Anyaa Carter, Tuck Clarry, and Peter Woodbrook talk with me about what it's been …

Baylor fans have seen a rivalry with Texas A&M disappear, might be losing another one for good with Texas leaving for the SEC, have dealt with two of the most shocking scandals in modern college sports history, watched their program-defining women's basketball coach leave for LSU, and had to cope with TCU making a run to the national championship g…

At the crossroads of beloved tradition and radical change, you will find the Cal Bears, who are trying to navigate a shifting college sports landscape that is thrusting them (along with their hated rivals, Stanford) into the ACC of all places. I talked to Nam Le, Trace Travers, and Nico Savidge about the experience of being a Cal fan, what they're …

Tennessee fans have seen a lot of ups and downs and dramatic twists over the past 15 or so years, and I sat down with Holly Anderson, Charlie Burris, and Jake Thompson to dig into that emotional journey. We cover the difference between rooting for Lady Vols basketball and other Tennessee sports, the most hated people inside and outside of Knoxville…

Maryland's gone from an ACC school that won a title in men's and women's basketball within four years of each other to a Big Ten school that doesn't have a lot of natural rivals and has seen football and men's hoops fall off somewhat. How do Terp fans feel about all that change, Maryland's future in college sports, and the importance of lacrosse? T…

While we work on preparing Season 2, we put together a special bonus episode talking to three fans of the Buffalo Bills - Prescott Rossi, Victoria Zeller, and Taylor Fulton - to learn more about the nuances of Bills Mafia, which team in the AFC East Bills fans hate the most, and how the Bills maybe serve as the college football team of Buffalo. Kee…

Season 1 of We're Not All Like This wraps up with a look at the fans of West Virginia. Does the Big 12 feel like home for a school nowhere near Texas? Who, of all the amazing talents that came through Morgantown, was the most exciting and electrifying Mountaineer to watch? And what's with the whole lighting furniture on fire thing? Beth Carpenter, …

UConn's men's basketball team has won five national titles; the women's team has won eleven. So, naturally, we're here to talk about UConn football, a program that voluntarily left the American Athletic Conference to go independent. We asked Whitney McIntosh, Bryan Jackson, and the mysterious @NoEscalators to walk us through the peak years of Husky…

Washington State exists in opposition to a lot of things: the Washington Huskies, the Idaho Vandals, the richer and shinier members of the Pac-12, the football TV media industry, and anyone who thinks it's weird to put a college in the middle of rolling fields of wheat and lentils. What is it like to be in the first group of Cougs vs. Everybody? Do…

What drives the Kentucky-Louisville rivalry? Do Cardinals fans want the Keg of Nails game to come back? How do they feel about the school serving as a stepping stone for so many college football coaches? And how the heck did Papa John occupy a place of such prominence within Louisville athletics? We asked these questions and others of Keith Wynne, …

Ole Miss has the most famous college tailgate, a football history peppered with painful and baffling losses, a coaching lineage that includes Houston Nutt and Ed Orgeron, and a whole lot of confederate imagery in its past. We asked Alex McDaniel, Zach Berry, and Bunkie Perkins to walk us through what it's like to root for a college football team th…

What is a Michigan Man? Why do Michigan fans care so much about history? How similar are they to Ohio State fans? And what do they love/hate about their most Michigan coach, Jim Harbaugh? We put these questions to Jane Coaston, Ace Anbender, and Ben Mathis-Lilley in an effort to understand what it's like to root for the victors valiant. Special tha…

This was the first episode we recorded after the 2023 season began in full, which meant I talked to Joel Anderson, Melissa Triebwasser, and Grant McGalliard within a week of TCU losing the season opener at home to Deion Sanders and Colorado. They were kind enough to explain to me: - How that loss fits into the larger experience of being a TCU fan -…

For two monstrous stretches - 1986 to 1992 and 2000 to 2003 - Miami was one of the most dominant, talented, and bombastic teams in the history of college football. But it's been a while since those halcyon days of U-ness, so I talked to Brody Logan, Chris Wittyngham, and Cam Underwood about: - When they realllllly thought Miami was back only to cra…

Arizona State has a reputation as a party school and, while it comes by that very honestly, the experience of rooting for Sun Devils football is not what something you would call "consistently festive and chill." On this episode, we talked to Gina Mizell, Justin Prestegard, and Brad Denny to learn more about the Territorial Cup rivalry, how ASU fan…

Notre Dame is not the kind of football program that inspires apathy in anyone. Swathed in tradition, the Fighting Irish are connected, often via bad feelings on one or both sides, to a number of other teams all around the college football landscape. They are the school simultaneously nestled at the center of the sport and most loudly criticized for…

For over two decades, Iowa football has been a model of consistency, with 19 bowl appearances since 2001 thanks in large part to tenacious defense and special teams. But with that consistency comes some limits; Iowa hasn't won a share of the Big Ten title since 2004, and the Kirk Ferentz offense is...a stylistic choice. To better understand what it…

The goal of We're Not All Like This is to talk to representatives of fan bases to understand what makes those groups tick, what matters to them, and why they are the way that they are. There's probably not a better team to start with than Auburn, the perpetual chaos machine that defies pattern or understanding. What's it like to root for such a tur…