College Football's 25 Most Engaged Fan Bases

It's July, the dullest month of the sports calendar, when days pass slower than Rich Eisen running a 40-yard dash, and we're forced to entertain ourselves with the fact that Kevin Love's dad

But the sports summer doldrums do come with one silver lining: It's almost college football season. In just a few (okay, several) short (okay, regulation-length) weeks, we'll all be tailgating and screaming our heads-off for our favorite teams

Just which college-football programs have the best fans, however, is always a topic of fierce debate. Is it LSU's bunch of bayou-dwelling maniacs? USC's sweater-wearing SoCal set? The beleaguered-yet-proud loyalists over at Penn State?