Top Five Reasons for Vols Fans to Hate the Alabama Crimson Tide

Oct 17, 2015; College Station, TX, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban looks up from the sideline during the fourth quarter against the Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field. The Crimson Tide defeated the Aggies 41-23. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports

3. Poll Voters Love Them

This is the biggest media darling school in all of college football.

The Alabama Crimson Tide remain the only team in history not named Notre Dame, another media daring, to not win their conference but be voted national champions. I do not care that they beat the LSU Tigers in the 2011 National Championship.

They had no business being in that game.

You should not play for the national title when you can’t win your conference unless every conference champion gets to play for it. That has always been my rule.

But of course, the poll voters will go out of their way to bend the rules for the Crimson Tide. Only they will get that second chance, nobody else.

That’s not the first time either. Let’s go back to 1978. The Tide lost 24-14 to the USC Trojans. Both teams ended the year with a loss. Yet AP voters felt it prudent to vote Alabama #1 at the end of the year, allowing them to split the title with the team that beat them. What a joke!

Of course, Bryant got two other national titles when his team lost their bowl game, but hey, it’s Alabama. The NCAA will do whatever is possible to make sure the Tide get their due respect.

This allows the program to go back and retroactively claim any national title that they want, which they seem to do a lot.

Yet somehow, they resent that and act like they are treated unfairly. That moves us to the next reason to hate this team.

Next: #2: They Always Play the Victim