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Top 20 most tortured college football fan bases in 2018

By Andrew Miller

ATHENS, GA - NOVEMBER 18: Hairy Dawg leads Georgia Bulldogs fans in the fourth quarter cheer during the second half against the Kentucky Wildcats at Sanford Stadium on November 18, 2017 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images)
ATHENS, GA - NOVEMBER 18: Hairy Dawg leads Georgia Bulldogs fans in the fourth quarter cheer during the second half against the Kentucky Wildcats at Sanford Stadium on November 18, 2017 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images) /
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PISCATAWAY, NJ – OCTOBER 20: Head coach Chris Ash (C) of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights greets Head coach Pat Fitzgerald of the Northwestern Wildcats after the game on October 20, 2018 in Piscataway, New Jersey. Northwestern won 18-15. (Photo by Corey Perrine/Getty Images)
PISCATAWAY, NJ – OCTOBER 20: Head coach Chris Ash (C) of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights greets Head coach Pat Fitzgerald of the Northwestern Wildcats after the game on October 20, 2018 in Piscataway, New Jersey. Northwestern won 18-15. (Photo by Corey Perrine/Getty Images) /

Most of the teams on this list are teams that have more of a roller coaster ride for the past decade or two. Teams like the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Kansas Jayhawks, Oregon State Beavers, etc. that consistently find themselves at the bottom of the respective Power Five conferences is hard to say that the fan base is tortured.

On the other hand, the Rutgers football fan base was dragged through the mud since the program made the move to the Big Ten following the 2013 season. Rutgers made the move from the American Athletic Conference to the Big Ten with the hopes that the football program would reach the heights it did during the mid-2000s at times.

This was actually a pretty solid program when it left the AAC with former head coach Kyle Flood at the helm. The first season for the Scarlet Knights in the Big Ten even delivered a pretty successful 2014 campaign. Rutgers knocked off the North Carolina Tar Heels in 2014 to win the Quick Lane Bowl and finish with eight wins.

Since then, the most wins that Rutgers was able to muster in one season was four. The 2018 campaign doesn’t look much better either. Getting down the right path in the Big Ten is going to be difficult for the Rutgers football program moving forward which means this down period for the fans could be extended past the 2010s.

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