The worst ones are the ones that attack a particular school specifically. It just screams inferiority complex (at least in my opinion). Any time you’re focused more on tearing another team down rather than propping your team up, you’re basically saying, “This team isn’t REALLY better than my team…” I’ve been to the last several TX-OU games, and, without fail, whichever team is the underdog or the one who has lost most recently is, without fail, the team that is more vocal about yelling that the other team “sucks.” I’ve even seen OU fans with red hats with a white upside-down longhorn. I mean…c’mon. Not only is that confusing, but it doesn’t even mention what school you support! Then there’s the Aggies…they make more shirts about UT than anybody (see above re: inferiority complex).

And a t-shirt designed for one game that you won in the past? Ridiculous. Act like you’ve done it before (which we actually have with USC). And don’t focus so much on one win…still have a number of huge games left.

[stepping down off soap box]

I agree that the shirts are kind of silly. At some point, you have to expect to win those games. I will say though that I really want a hat with the three trees from the Rule of Tree logo.

I believe it’s a generic template, prepared before the game’s even been played, and all that’s left is for the scores to be filled in. With as cheap and easy as it is to make custom T shirts these days there’s little reason for the schools not to try to squeeze out a couple bucks.

Stanford students need to become more football-friendly and know when and when not to rush the football field.