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I would root for Stanford for just the reason sammy gives - there is some locality and prior history involved tho, so I usually root for UO, OSU & WSU - my undergrad. school did have a football team but they were smaller than my HS team (!)

Calif. has 3 tiers for post-2o ed. UC at top (the research universities); CSU = 4 yr. schools, some with various MS or MA degrees & very heavy teaching loads on the faculty but they often do some research - Humboldt, a CSU school, is quite good in wildlife biology; the 3rd tier is the community college system

actually Oregon has a 3 tiered system also, as do many states (S. Ill. etc. any state school with a direction in it...), but the Calif. system is more highly developed and/or stratified