Study Finds Which College Football Fanbases Have the Worst Grammar

Kyle Newport @@KyleNewportFeatured ColumnistSeptember 1, 2015

Alabama fans cheer for the Crimson Tide in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Virginia Tech in Atlanta Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Seeing a college sports fan make a grammar mistake in a comment section is so much more fun than seeing a professional sports fan make the same error.

Why? Not only does the grammar mistake make the team's fanbase look bad, but it also reflects poorly on the school. That double whammy gives rival fans plenty to laugh at.

With the 2015-16 college football season just days away, an automated proofreading company called Grammarly did some research to figure out which college football fanbase—of the teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25—had the worst grammar. Grammarly went through the SB Nation page for each team and evaluated 100 comments to get data.

Here are the results for the best and worst grammar among college football fanbases:

College Football Top 25 Fanbase Grammar Rankings
Rank	Team	Mistakes Per 100 Words
1	Auburn Tigers	0.9
2	TCU Horned Frogs	1.6
3	Oregon Ducks	1.9
4	Ole Miss Rebels	2.0
5	LSU Tigers	2.1
6	Stanford Cardinal	2.2
7	Arizona Wildcats	2.3
8	Boise State Broncos	2.5
9	Tennessee Volunteers	2.7
10	Oklahoma Sooners	3.1
11	USC Trojans	3.4
12	Ohio State Buckeyes	4.0
13	Missouri Tigers	4.1
14	Arkansas Razorbacks	4.2
15	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	4.4
16	UCLA Bruins	4.6
17	Florida State Seminoles	4.6
18	Michigan State Spartans	4.8
19	Arizona State Sun Devils	5.0
20	Wisconsin Badgers	5.0
21	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	5.4
22	Clemson Tigers	5.5
23	Baylor Bears	5.5
24	Georgia Bulldogs	5.7
25	Alabama Crimson Tide	6.4
Grammarly via the Wall Street Journal

There doesn't appear to be much of a connection between grammar and a team's success or grammar and conference affiliation. However, this list does add another chapter to the Iron Bowl.

Click the links to see which NFL (here) and MLB (here) fanbases have the worst grammar.

[Wall Street Journal, h/t USA Today's FTW]