Lessee, as someone born in Columbus, grew up in a county where 9 out of 10 schools in the country league had the Ohio State fight song (I believe the 10th one had Notre Dame's fight song), who went to a handful of games in the Horseshoe when I was young when my Mom was taking classes ... I'm supposed to say That School Up North (but not supposed to say its name).

As a Miami University alumn, I am supposed to say Ohio University. Where my high school band director graduated from, so was where we went to band camp every year. And where my late older brother went to school, so I got to visit on my own a couple of times in my Junior and Senior year in high school ... they had a really great used book store in Athens back then.

As a UTK PhD, and student in Knoxville for six years I am supposed to say Bama. But graduate school just isn't really the same, so it's not required to be the same intensity of hate.

And as a support of my local college, I guess I am supposed to also hate Akron, where my late youngest son briefly went in hopes of playing soccer for a nationally visible school (though he would probably have said Bama since he was much stronger Vols fan than I ever was).

But really, there's an ample supply of hate in the world, I'd rather just cheer for the teams I support and leave the hating for those who reckon there's not enough hate to go around.