Kids are kids, and many like the flavor of the month teams when they're younger. Even though my team has always been, and always will be, Ohio State, I also liked Oklahoma and Notre Dame up until high school. Reason I like Oklahoma was their wishbone attack and that they was a national title contender every year (thus saw them on TV a lot), and I think their fight song is pretty cool. I liked Notre Dame because they were on TV in Youngstown every frickin' week and even had a half-hour digest show the day of the game. I ended up seeing both those teams on TV more than I got to see Ohio State it seemed. Thank goodness for GamePlan now.
