SEC fans would trade any non-revenue sport to even sniff a national football title, and they’re not wrong

College football in the South is basically a religion.

That makes sense since most shows are in cities that aren’t even close to a pro football team, but I swear some of these fan bases care more about their SEC team than their own family.

That’s not me trying to speak from a place of moral superiority either, because I certainly fall somewhere in that category as a diehard Florida Gators fan.

The Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates with the SEC Championship trophy after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs 27-24 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 2, 2023. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

A USA Today writer found this out the hard way when she asked a simple question about X: “Would most South Carolina fans trade three women’s basketball national championships for one national football title?”

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The question was part of a larger article by Lauren Beasley arguing the merits of the Gamecocks women’s basketball team, and you can read it for yourself if you have time, but the answers to her question particularly fascinated me.

It didn’t surprise me, and I really hope she wasn’t expecting anything less, but the near-universal consensus was that, yes, most Gamecock fans would dismantle any non-commercial sport to even sniff a football national championship.

The point is also: they are not wrong.

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I’ve had discussions with other Gator fans, and maybe that’s because I’m a fan who never went to the University of Florida, but I would trade pretty much any other sport to see Florida win another natty in my lifetime.

Baseball, softball, those are no-brainers, but it goes even further than that.

There are times in recent years in mid-November when the Gators are once again in danger of missing a bowl game, when I would gladly make a deal with the devil and trade whatever success all four of my professional sports franchises have experienced and will ever experience for my college football team to be relevant again.

South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley reacts during the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Final Four semifinal against the Texas Longhorns at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, on April 4, 2025. (Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

I’ve witnessed two World Series (Marlins), three NBA championships (Heat) and, most recently, back-to-back Stanley Cups (Panthers), and while the latter would be tough to give up, I’d sell them all for another Gators national championship.

I’m not a unique case, and I’m probably not even the most die-hard college football fan, though I’d like to think I’m above that.

Hell, a Bama fan poisoned a bunch of trees and went to jail just because his bitter rivals won a championship. You don’t think he’d tell Nate Oats to kick the rocks if it meant he could live to see another Crimson Tide championship (if he was still around, that is. RIP Harvey Updyke)?

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Vanderbilt Commodores fans march with the goalposts around the field after the game against the Alabama Crimson Tide at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 5, 2024. (Matthew Maxey/Icon Sportswire)

I’m sure a lot of people from the Northeast probably think I’m a weirdo, but when people say “it just means more” to SEC fans, this is what they’re talking about.

I am confident that Beasley knew exactly what she was doing when she asked this question, and that she knew what the overwhelming response would be.

Ask any SEC football fan and you’ll undoubtedly get a similar answer.

They don’t even have to be the Harvey Updykes of the world. They just have to love their team.

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It’s not a knock on women’s basketball either, it just shows how much these football programs mean to these fans.

The religion of college football is strong in the South, and everything else plays only second fiddle.

Austin Perry is a writer for OutKick.

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