Top 10 Memes of the 2021 College Football Regular Season

Liam Blutman

We have a long and gruesome wait ahead of us as the 2022 college football season doesn’t begin until the last days of August… Ugh. For now, let’s celebrate the amazing season that just wrapped up and relive some of the best and funniest moments of 2021. Here are your Top 10 Memes of the 2021 Regular Season as chosen by NoContextCFB… 

(Quick note! My videos were flagged and taken down, so I am unable to include any videos that I recorded myself for NoContextCFB in this article. Sorry!)

10. Purdue Flop (Week 5)

Purdue and Minnesota played a football game, but nobody cared. Sorry… that’s just the truth. All we care about is the Purdue cheerleader doing a belly flop into a puddle. Like it happened. They might have DMCA’d my tweet of the video but… We saw it. We all saw that. This was insane — she just straight up flopped into a puddle like it was nothing. This was sheer insanity. I have no other words. Truly speechless. Dumbfounded, but impressed!? What a great moment this was. 

9. Seeing More Than Double (Week 13)

HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?? During the Wisconsin vs. Minnesota game, we saw one million Dean Blandinos on the screen at once. I’m not sure what technical error caused this to happen, but am I crazy for wishing it would happen more?

8. No Shirts Needed (Week 11)

Indiana was a massive disappointment this season and there was almost nothing to be excited about. In the Hoosiers’ home game against Rutgers, the fans got creative and found a way to spark excitement. A few people in a section took their shirts off, and they were going crazy. Then some people joined them. And then even more people joined until there was an entire section of shirtless dudes… WHAT!!? This is something we have never seen before, and it is COMEDY. This was GOOD, and I think I speak for everyone when I say… Indiana fans need to do this again next season.

7. Horns Down and Everything Else (Week 10)

What a week this was for Texas football. This program just continues to amaze us time and time again, and most of the time the Longhorns are doing it with off the field antics. Well, we all know about the saga with a monkey, Jeff Banks, and Pole Assassin. You already knew that fans of other programs were going to have a field day with this story. The Longhorns played at Iowa State on Saturday and got blown out in a pathetic 30-7 loss. It was super easy for ISU fans to mock the off-field antics, and we spotted this guy holding up a hilarious sign. The horns down logo with a monkey and a stripper hanging off the horns…  PERFECTION! And there is a guy dressed in a monkey costume in this image too. College football is the BEST!

6. Ritgers (Week 12)

Maryland decided that five “lucky” students had the opportunity to head to “Ritgers” for a football game… Now there are so many thoughts racing through my mind. This is the most Rutgers thing we have possibly ever seen, and they had nothing to do with this comical spelling error. Maryland sending five kids on a trip to Rutgers sounds like a punishment. There are so many other things to take away from this, but I’m just gonna let y’all think about Maryland and Ritgers.

5. Chiasson Boutte (Week 7)

Oh my. We were BLESSED with another absurd names meme. LSU players Jake Chiasson and Kayshon Boutte stood next to each other on the sideline. What does that mean? The “Chiasson Boutte” masterpiece was born. I love these kind of name memes and will die laughing at them every single time. This is one of my favorite ones I’ve ever seen!

4. Vintage BYU Trash Talk (Week 2)

The Holy War is a heated rivalry, and it clearly brings out the worst in Utah and BYU fans. I mean, just look at this image of two BYU fans taking trash talk to another level. “Frick Utah.” So vile. And a sign decoding what the acronym MILF means… Man I Love Football. Were these BYU fans leaning into the stereotypes or are they really just the stereotype?

3. That Ain’t Popcorn (Week 9)

So… when Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss come to town, opposing fans are making sure to do some clever things. These Auburn students went all out with the tiger body paint and a group that was able to spell out “popcorn.” Well, what happens when O, P, and C leave? P, O, R, and N are left standing there and everyone is taking pictures of them… wonder why?

2. Indinia Football (Week 1)

Well… In my honest opinion, spelling is hard. Yeah, we’ll roll with that and give an excuse to whoever stitched these letters onto this jersey. Indiana, that’s how you spell Indiana. On this poor kid’s jersey, it spelled out “Indinia,” which is… wrong. Very, very wrong. How embarrassing is that? How do you actually spell Indiana wrong? Lol. Maybe this jersey was the reason why Indiana, or Indinia, went out and got clobbered by Iowa. Yikes.

1. Is That MUSTARD??!! (Week 7)

The chaos that we saw at Neyland when Tennessee hosted Ole Miss was unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Sure, we have seen objects thrown onto the field and delays, but this was a relentless attack that never really stopped and resulted in cheerleaders and band members evacuating. Students were forced to exit and then quickly returned after. There was a lengthy delay, and in this delay the cameras started going around the stadium and showing everything they could… and they found mustard. A bottle of MUSTARD was on the field. WHO BRINGS MUSTARD TO A FOOTBALL GAME!!!??? Sheesh. I don’t know what else to say other than that I love college football so much for how dang weird it is.

Thank you all for reading this article and supporting me throughout the entire season whether it was on this outstanding website or over on Twitter with NoContextCFB. I can not thank you all enough, and I appreciate each and every one of you. I hope you enjoyed this article and had a few laughs!

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Liam Blutman
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I am a diehard UCLA fan that has enjoyed (?) mediocrity year after year. My favorite CFB moment was witnessing UCLA comeback from 34 down against Texas A&M. Being at the Rose Bowl for that historic moment is something I’ll never forget. I have written about CFB since I was 14 and my favorite thing to do is give under-the-radar athletes the recognition they deserve. You might know me from @NoContextCFB !

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