We’re Not All Like This

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 game in football. We talk to Amy Graham Pagitt,...

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 losing with the end of playing USC and UCLA, and w...

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, and whether the Vol Navy is essential or just a...

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? Thanks to Alex Kirshner, Kofie Yeboah, and Matt Ell...

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.   Keep an eye out for Season 2 in early March 2024!

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, Chris Sedenka, and Matt Kirchner help us answer t...

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 football were like, the expectations fans have no...

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? Does that history make Washington State more ready t...

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, Haley O'Shaughnessy, and Mark Ennis to better unde...

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 that might be cursed, whether the Egg Bowl has alway...

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 thanks to our sponsor, Homefield Apparel .

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 - Whether last year's run to the national champions...

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 crash back to Earth - Which Florida program the Canes...

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 fans feel about leaving the Pac-12, why the 1997 Rose...

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 what outsiders perceive as undeserved attention,...

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's like to root for the Hawkeyes, I interviewed Lu...

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 turbulent team? Who do Auburn fans look to as their e...