CBS Sports ranks 10 most hated college football teams
Baker Mayfield may be beloved in Norman. But the rest of the country didn't much care for him or the Sooners.
Every college football team's fandom thinks their favorite squad must be despised by opponents. Everyone else is out to get them. And while it's rarely true, sometimes, the reality hits close to home.
Over at CBS Sports this week, Brad Crawford wrote about the 10 teams in modern college football history he believed are among the most hated . Not the programs, mind you, but teams specific to one year in particular. Oklahoma made the list.
It's probably the team you figure, too, as the 2017 Sooners ranked No. 5 on Crawford's list. That's the year Baker Mayfield planted the OU flag at the Ohio State 50.
"The first of several in-season stunts in 2017 that also included a crotch-grab during a win over Kansas , Mayfield was easy to despise. He was a damn good football player -- and winner -- too," Crawford wrote. Before the season even began, Mayfield was arrested for public intoxication after a night on the town in Fayetteville, Arkansas.