Odd usage of "penchant"

Penchant is synonymous with words such as "inclination" and "leaning."

Does the sentence below correctly use the word "penchant"?

Joe has a penchant against the UCLA Bruins.

A penchant is a predisposition in favor of, a predilection for something. I found this on the Net, though. I'd say that he's misusing the word and that the writer or speaker should have said "prejudice" or "bias" against the UCLA Bruins.

I recommend looking at Wordnik for questions like this. In addition to providing definitions from more than one dictionary on the left, the Wordnik page shows example usages on the right.

Initially, I didn't like the sentence about Joe and the Bruins. I think of a penchant for doing something being used more like a tendency to do something. So, I'd be more inclined to say:

Joe has a penchant for disliking the Bruins.

When I checked the Wordnik page, I noticed that almost all the usages read penchant for, even after I clicked the Show 10 more examples… link three or four times. For example:

...his penchant for exerting political pressure.

...a preternaturally eclectic, intellectually minded prog rocker with a penchant for cosmic horror.

...has a penchant for the use of physical threats and violent analogies in discussions and debates.

Still, 30 or 40 usages on Wordnik hardly constitutes a definitive answer. So, I looked up "has a penchant against" on Google books, I found all of one hit, from a 1930 yearbook:

...unless perchance some famed alumnus has a penchant against metropolitan papers and for love of Alma Mater keeps his great secret to himself.

When I changed the search to "has a penchant for", however, there were 137,000. Interestingly enough, the very first result was from a dictionary of idioms, which says that the idiom "Have a penchant for" means:

Have a tendency or taste for. For example, He has a penchant for saying the wrong thing, or She has a strong penchant for baroque music.

I also tried these searches on Google books:

• "a penchant against" (36 results returned)
• "a penchant of" (two thousand results returned)
• "a penchant for" (4.7 million results returned)

You can say whatever you want to say, and write whatever you'd like to write, but, as for me, I'd have a penchant for avoiding the usage found in your sentence.