10. College football starts a week earlier
Sure, the NFL has preseason games. I’ll be the first to admit that the first preseason game is always exciting for me simply because it means the end of the late summer abyss in the annual sports calendar.
But let’s face it: After week two of the NFL preseason, I’m pretty much over it. The coaches are sparing their best players, and nobody really seems to be playing to win.
College football always starts on Labor Day weekend, a full week before the NFL regular season. Whoever said “all good things come to those who wait” must not have been a college football fan.
9. Saturdays vs. Sundays
To me, there’s nothing better than going to bed on Friday night knowing that you have nothing to do on Saturday except watch college football.
On the weekends when my team is on the road, I make sure I have all the food and drinks necessary so that I don’t have to get out of my chair unless nature calls or I need a refill.
One day I’ll get one of those relief tubes like the Astronauts have. If I also get a butler, I won’t have to get up at all!
On Sundays in the South, there’s usually church first thing in the morning. Then, if you’re like me, Sunday is the day that the wife usually presents you with the “honey-do” list that you feel compelled to do since you sat on your duff all day Saturday.
Even if you find a few hours to watch your favorite NFL team, you still have it hanging over your head that it’s back to work in the morning. That feeling always tends to take the wind out of my sails.
8. Better Rivalries
I will concede that there are some good rivalries in the NFL, but the lack of institutional tradition results in a void of true emotion.
The NFL will never have an Ohio State vs. Michigan, a USC vs. UCLA, an Egg Bowl, or an Iron Bowl.
‘Nuff said on this subject!
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7. Stadiums
I’ve been fortunate enough to have been to many college as well as NFL stadiums around the country, and there’s no comparison. NFL stadiums are generally in a downtown or commercial area with little to no character outside of the venue.
The majority of college stadiums are on a college campus, which generally provides an environment that is peaceful yet energetic. This is especially true if you attended the college that you are seeing the game at—great memories!
6. Tailgating
Tailgating is the backbone of the college football experience. I know there are plenty of NFL tailgaters, but again, there is no comparison.
Most college football games have more people tailgating than the actual stadium capacity. The only time I’ve ever seen anything close to this in the NFL was in Green Bay.
I have also found that the setups at college football tailgate parties are much more elaborate. Most of the tailgate parties I see at an NFL game have corporate sponsors.
5. Players
Do I really have to go into detail here? I know that there are a handful of arrogant prima donnas in college football, but the vast majority of them play for pride. It’s also fun to watch a player come in, basically as a high school kid, and watch him develop into a young man.
I think Nick Saban said it best. (Paraphrasing) “The decision to return to this level came down to this question: Do I want to coach a bunch of immature, undisciplined football players...or do I want to coach college?”
4. Marching Bands
One of the most noticeable environmental differences between a college football game and an NFL game has got to be the marching band. The beating of the drums alone stirs up nostalgia from my old days in the student section.
3. Fight Songs
NFL teams have cheers, but few, if any, have a full-blown fight song. Once again, these traditional tunes are what really get the crowd fired up—even when their team is playing poorly.
This could have been merged with No. 4, but I felt it was significant enough to give fight songs their own ranking.
2. Bowl Season
The holidays are always a festive time of year, but the cherry on top has got to be the college football bowl games. Even the small, pre-Christmas bowls give you a reason to have a few lagers on a Tuesday night while your wife is at the mall—again!
There’s nothing better than finishing a big New Year’s Day meal, loosening the old belt, and plopping down on the couch to watch the first few January bowl games. It’s much better than making small talk with the relatives!
1. The Fans
The other reasons in this list all feed into why college football fans are better than NFL fans. The common denominator, however, is passion. Just like the players, college football fans are much more passionate about their team.
One of the reasons for this is that most NFL teams are city-based. If you grew up in an NFL city, then you are probably a big fan of that city’s team. That’s normal. You might even be a huge fan!
But the main difference is that many college football fans actually spent several years as a student in the respective institution. Being an alumnus of a college or university makes you part of a family, and even the crusty old Microbiology professors who are not big into sports will normally cheer for their Alma Mater on game day.
This passion is especially evident when you have a large university located in a small town. The university is usually the heart of the town, the largest employer, and the cornerstone of the regional economy.
Being the nucleus of the community generally leads to much stronger emotional ties for sports fans and non-sports fans alike.
Football season is finally here. We'll see you on campus!
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2 months ago
Great read, Brian. I totally agree that NCAA football is better than the NFL. Hands down.
2 months ago
Great read. #11 Better Rules=Better Game
from 2 months ago
Better rules? Did you see Briggs #99 I believe on Bowling Green get penalized for a one second celebration that could have cost them the game? Maybe next year when I attend college I will find a deep love for the game, but for now, I prefer the NFL.
from 2 months ago
At least they're allowed to play pass coverage in college. At least tehy play a full game, the clock stops on a first down...etc
from 2 months ago
At least they're allowed to play pass coverage in college. At least tehy play a full game, the clock stops on a first down...etc
from 2 months ago
At least they're allowed to play pass coverage in college. At least tehy play a full game, the clock stops on a first down...etc
from 2 months ago
They play a full game? What decides what is a true full game? Also, I hate the rule about the clock stopping after first downs. It's all on opinion, that's just what I feel.
2 months ago
You mean to tell me there are actually people out there who consider the NFL better than college football????
I'm so glad I live in the south where I don't have to worry with that.
Great article.
2 months ago
Brian! Amen, preach it. Great article, especially the stadiums and the rivalries! And college cheerleaders look more "natural." :)
from 2 months ago
Not just more "natural" but much more athletic, with their high-flying acrobatics and tumbling routines.
2 months ago
This is a good start but what about the other 18,490 reasons?
Good job Brian.
from 2 months ago
I could only come up with 18,489 reasons. What was #18,490? ;-)
2 months ago
Great article. The passion of the fans is really on another level. And quite frequently, not only did you attend that university, but your parents and maybe grandparents did as well. That adds to the passion. College football rivalry games are unbeatable.
2 months ago
I would also add mascots to that list. Ralphie at Colorado, the Masked Rider at Texas Tech, Uga at Georgia, the tiger at LSU, the eagle at Auburn, the Sooner Schooner, etc. That's another thing that's better in college.
from 2 months ago
The Oregon Duck is hillarious.
2 months ago
I have to agree with the Sunday vs. Saturday argument. I loathe Sundays.. but Saturday is where its at! Great article.
2 months ago
You had me at hello, or the title. No list necessary. But I agree with the list.
2 months ago
Great Article, you have hit the nail on the head. College football is ten times better than the NFL.
2 months ago
No way. I don't follow college football, never have, never will. I just don't understand why people are so obsessed with a bunch of Pro rejects. Whatever.
from 2 months ago
How can someone be a reject without ever asking to be accepted? Most of the players in the NFL played college football, so I don't understand your reject logic. The players you root for had far more fans in college than they do now.
from 2 months ago
are you confusing NCAA football with NFL Europe?
from 2 months ago
Michoel-
Did your parents have any children that lived?
from 2 months ago
You know what, I simply don't understand the obsession with college football the way you do! I won't attempt to either.
from 2 months ago
They aren't pro rejects simply for the fact that they haven't gone through a draft. What I can't understand is why so many people are obsessed with a bunch of overpaid whiners. I'll watch pro when I have to, but college ball rules.
from 2 months ago
No -- what I'm saying is that most of these guys never go to the NFL anyway, which is all that counts to me. Oh and another sucky thing about college ball is that even the best players graduate and are gone. So there's no such thing as a dynasty.
I will never understand this disgusting obsession. Period.
2 months ago
I read this on Fox Sports before I even seen it on here. College football is way better, it's not even close. I am so glad I'm leaving for Columbus at 5 am tomorrow instead of on a Sunday!!
In response to the comment above, almost all NFL players come from college so therefore they couldn't be Pro rejects. Oh and by the way, they actually play football!! Their heart is still in the game while they are in college. When they get to the NFL its all about getting paid. The NFL is fun to watch but much watered down from college.
2 months ago
Great article, totally agree with you Brian!
In terms of rivalries, in the US people move around for jobs and also not everyone lives in a city with an NFL team, so its hard to identify with one. In college there are 120 teams in Division-1 alone, so much more opportunity to spread the love around, plus being an alumni of a school will be in your blood forever. Sure I'm from the Bay Area and the 49ers will be my NFL team, but they will never get the love I give my Huskies.
2 months ago
I agree with your all of your points. So if what I'm about to say is contradictory, sorry. But what about the quality of play? No matter how passionate college football players are about their sport, most are not as good as NFL players. Better talent=better, more exciting play.
from 2 months ago
I completely agree. I see too many mistakes and big plays in college ball that I'd never see in the NFL.
Plus I don't have a team to root for, so college football just bores me. :\
from 2 months ago
Having gone to Virginia Tech for four years and never missing a home game, I can say with certainty that college games are more electric and fan oriented than the NFL.
That being said, the NFL is a higher quality product. The very best of the best play in the NFL and that's what I prefer when it's all said and done. Tailgating, crazy fans and heated rivalries are all well and good. But let's not forget that tailgates in New England, fans in Philly, and rivalries like New England-Indy or Washington-Dallas are still pretty damn intense. The NFL is better if you care more about quality of play.
And to your point about college football starting a week earlier; the NFL may start later but also ends in the end of January with a clear cut champion. There's no crying for overhauling the whole playoff system year after year.
Good work though and I understand why so many people love CFB. It's great entertainment.
from 2 months ago
I agree with the better talent comment...the NFL takes the top talent from college right? No disupte here. But more exciting play? I couldn't disagree more. The NFL is strictly commercial. NCAA football is genuine and real. Nothing's more exciting watching two teams go at it for the right reasons.
I live in a small town. We have a baseball team who was running an ad a couple of years ago that asked (horrible paraphrase) "Which would you rather watch, a bunch of guys who already have it made or the guys who are trying to get there?" I want to watch the guys who have a reason to play hard.
2 months ago
Hey Brian,
Brilliant observation and well written too.
Couldn't agree more.
Thanks for a great article.
Oh, you got anymore dip?
2 months ago
sadly i work with yanks who believe that the NFL is the better.... i hate the NFL b/c its all about money(except brett farve who plays b/c he loves to play.), in college the only thing that matters is saturday not payday. Being born and raised in Alabama you can see why i love college football, and we are just one day away. WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!
2 months ago
No way I was just about to write this article!!!!!!! I have a facebook group called college football is so much better than NFL football if any of you wanna join it. http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18991979872
2 months ago
Love College ball so much more than the NFL, guys play their butts off in college, anything can happen and there is so much turnover in 4 years its a whole new set of teams!
2 months ago
Well Will I'm one of those Yanks. The NFL is a better game for one reason and one reason only the damn talent. Who cares about tail gating, the stadium, and marching bands (unless it is battle of the bands and those schools suck at football.) College football is going down hill. I'm tired of these coaches getting bad players and making schemes that work. Urban Meyer is a great example of this he made Alex Smith look like a great QB, and now he is doing it for Tim Tebow. I hate the option, and I hate spread offenses it is a joke it makes me think of highschool football when everyone ran the Wing-T. The only good games now are SEC games, Texas vs Oklahoma, Ohio St. vs Michigan. The rest is a joke. Or maybe I just have this opinion because I'm from California and never experienced a good game.
from 2 months ago
I agree. There's no question that the NFL is quality ball and college football is nice, but, it's semi pro. It's like an amateur league. Fun, but not the best football on the field when it's all said and done. And it's not like NFL tailgates are boring; people should go to Philly or New York before one of the games. You'll see just as crazy stuff happen there as college campuses.
2 months ago
Brian-
What are the LSU fans saying about the game being moved to 11 AM? Wow...that's a bummer for their fans. The tailgatinging will be non-existent.
from 2 months ago
They aren't too concerned, generally they are still drunk from the night before, duh, have you ever met an LSU fan? ;)
2 months ago
Well this is understandable coming from a Louisiana guy. The saints are atrocious and always have been for the most part, and LSU is one of the best places to watch a football game. But the fact of the matter is who has the better athletes at every single position? That's what I find entertaining.
Plus don't get all self-rightous and say college kids play for pride and (insert ridiculously sappy reason here) when they are getting paid and on scholarship. Furthermore say NFL players are all prima donnas, but you surely have known about Ryan Perriloux or the saint-like Lawrence Phillips right?
College is fun but in the end its amateur sports. I like the best of the best and that's what the NFL offers. Which is why your boy Nick Saban who you quoted couldn't hack it in the NFL. You can't tell grown men what to do and treat them like boys. Saban is a bum as an NFL coach, which is why he went back down....simple as that.
O AND BEFORE I FORGET. YOU CAN"T BUY ALCOHOL AT COLLEGE GAMES! Therefore it's a joke.
2 months ago
Good article Brian. T'ain't nothun like college football!!
I still watch CFB on Saturdays, go to church on Sunday, and sneak in a little NFL in the afternoon. Don't get much better!
2 months ago
I agree with all of these...especially number 5. NFL players make money for this, and although they enjoy playing, they still make too much money. NCAAF players play simply because they love to play football. Great article, man.
from 2 months ago
They get paid to Alan are you kidding me? Please wake up.
2 months ago
how about the fact that all NFL offenses are the same? its fun watching a slow big ten team trying to defend a 5 wide set with 4 line backers.
from 2 months ago
So you mean Michigan vs. a spread offense?
2 months ago
O and its champion is voted upon, which is fundamentally against the idea of competition and sport.
2 months ago
If so many of you guys love the pride and passion of the players not playing for money than why isn't Pee Wee or High School football your favorite?
from 2 months ago
Serious? how about the talent level is a bit better than pee wee football. Sure the talent may not be as good as NFL, but with great CFB talent and the reasons brian mentioned, its enough for me.
from 2 months ago
Satire my friend.
2 months ago
man brian, you truely out did yourself
IM DECLARING IT: this is the best article i have ever read
poty (pick of the year!)
2 months ago
Great article Brian. It wasnt until this past year did I begin enjoying college football over NFL. Two other reasons CFB is better.
(1) Recruiting. While it has its ugly side, the anticipation of new commits and incoming freshman class is much better than hoping your favorite NFL team outspends another.
(2) The fact that every game matters. You must perform your best every week. Your team loses 2 games, forget about championship game. Lose 1 game and your chances may be gone. In the NFL, .500 teams can get in as a wild card and run the table.
from 2 months ago
When has a .500 team in the NFL ever run the table? Besides college football congratulates .500 teams or 6-5 teams with ridiculous bowl berths. It's the same thing.
from 2 months ago
Sure, 7 wins gets you in a bowl game. A low bowl game, which is meaningless. But a team like last years NY Giants made the playoffs with 6 losses and still won the superbowl. In CFB, a team with 6 losses doesnt sniff a BCS game. That team usually plays before New Years Eve in some obscure bowl game.
2 months ago
10- There is also a break for bowls though, and the longest offseason in sports.
9- Plenty of people work on Sundays, myself included.z
8- True.
7- Of course the stadiums are on/near college campuses usually, haha, it is that school's stadium. There are a lot of nice NFL stadiums, but the mere fact that there are more college teams gives them the higher number of good stadiums I suppose.
6- Tailgating is ridiculous out here, and we just have the Texans. Both sports have near-similar tailgating in my opinion, depending on the team following. It is true that college has more random tailgating for random games, because there is more to watch.
5- The drama the players add is hilarious, you get the added effort during contract years, and you get to watch and speculate on whether a player is worth their contract.
4- Marching bands are great.
3- I would have merged it with 3, but it's alright, because it is a wonderful aspect of the game.
2- Playoffs > Bowl Games, sorry.
1- College football fans are better, but that is just saying that I make college football better.
from 2 months ago
I totally agree with your #2. I will take the NFL playoffs over every bowl game except the BCS Championship game. The Super Bowl is the greatest sporting event of the year...followed closely by the BCS Championship
from 2 months ago
Although I preffer CFB, I do agree with the playoffs over bowl games.
from 2 months ago
6. Not any more! The No Fun League has banned tailgating!
from 2 months ago
Wow, that is heartbreaking. Remove my number six then while I go rip the tailgate off of every truck on my street.
2 months ago
Great article, I totally agree. My pick of the day
2 months ago
I love college football but I also love the NFL. They are two different entities in my mind. Great read and I agree with most of your points especially fight songs. They make college football.
2 months ago
Great article Brian. I was hoping someone would write an article just like this. Thanks. Gets my first POTD vote and 5 starz.
2 months ago
NFL is better.
2 months ago
If I was on the fence about the two, this article would not have convinced me that CFB was superior.
2 months ago
You make a lot of good points, and its hard to argue with you, but until college gets a real playoff system and does away with the BCS garbage, it won't hold a candle to the NFL game. No computer in the world is going to pick who's going to win a matchup. It can tell you who SHOULD win a matchup, but until you play that game, nobody knows what'll happen. Imagine if, instead of having March Madness, the NCAA just used a computer to figure out who the best team in college basketball was every year. Some of the best upsets in the history of sports would never happen and the game would lose a lot of the excitement.
2 months ago
I guess I am in the minority here, but maybe thats cause I live in Canada.
I just love waking up hungover from a saturday night, turning on espn countdown while I fall in and out of sleep and then finally getting up at 1 to watch all the games on my sunday ticket. The quality is better, EVERY team has a chance before the season begins, and there is a playoff to determine who is the champ.
Don't get me wrong, I love football as much as every other sport and I turn in to some games on saturdays, but really I don't get too into it before the conference championships or if there is a big matchup, which means I will probably watch usc vs osu in a month or whatever. Also, the first bowl games are fun cause its the start of bowl season, but then there are just wayyyyyy too many in between those and the games that count.
2 months ago
Also all college coaches are pathetic and the recruiting and its following makes me sick.
2 months ago
Brian, I can see the logic behind the list, though I don't agree. I like CFB, but could never get into it the same way I get into the NFL. As many people have said, talent makes a big difference. I also really dislike the bowl games. I would prefer that the NCAA changes to a regular playoff format. The fact how the team is constantly changing might be nice to some, but to me it is just annoying and makes CFB harder to follow.
Also, while the rivalries are probably more intense with college sports, you cannot ignore rivalries such as the Steelers and Browns. Seeing that you live in New Orleans, you might not understand the caliber of the rivalry around here (Pittsburgh). People have been assaulted for being Browns fans. The tradition and love for the Steelers is so intense. When I go to another place and find Steeler fans, I feel we all bleed a certain kind of blood. That blood is black and gold.
2 months ago
Nice job here, but speaking as an NFL community leader, I vehemently disagree with the general premise of this article. Especially the part about Bowl Season. Get a playoff system, already!
Also, the NFL is played on Sunday because it's endorsed by God.
2 months ago
Great read. I do not watch much college football, but am planning on giving it a chance this season.
2 months ago
Nice article, man.
2 months ago
Sure college football is good until the Bowl Games !! But I can't see how it's better than the NFL !!!!!
In the NFL you have the best of the best not just from the Colleges here but from Canada as well, Well not that many from Canada more of the rejects from U.S College ball go and play in Canada CFL. I guess what I'm trying to say is take the best of the best from College football and take the best of the best from the NFL (better yet the worst players in the NFL it still would come out the same) and play a game !!!! It would be a total MASSACRE for the CFB boy's plain and simple and I wouldn't even want to watch the game besides all the blood and guts it would be like watching a BOWL GAME BORING !!!
THE NFL WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST FOOTBALL TO WATCH EVEN THE BORING GAME'S ( If there is such a thing) Hay this is only my opinion !!!!
2 months ago
Great read
2 months ago
NFL sucks. College rules. End of story.
2 months ago
Sunday NFL Football is great. I can begin the first half after a good meal and get the best Sunday afternoon naps! I wake up around the 2 minute warning to see the best part of the game.
There is no comparison in my opinion. College football is my favorite sport of all the other sports hands down.
2 months ago
heres a question for those who are married. You get one day to watch football, the other day on the weekend you must spend doing yard work and run errands. Which day do you choose to watch football?
2 months ago
I'm not married, but when I was 9-10, my mom gave me this ultimatum, and I chose Saturday because there were more games, and I spent midnight-midnight watching college football just to piss her off.
2 months ago
Pro is still great to watch. Football is football, but college is king even living in Ohio where we have two pro teams. We've got that OSU-Michigan rivalry that is bigger than all the pro games combined.
2 months ago
This was a well-written article, but its an opinion I don't share. The way it's determined who goes to the BCS game each year is just that, BS. Why should a mid-major or WAC school not have the chance to compete at a national level as an undefeated team, just because Ohio State has a so-called higher power ranking? The argument that teams with a higher RPI deserve to be in a significant bowl game with 1 or 2 losses, is an insult to a team that has lthe right to try and be their team's David.
I am tired of watching the same teams, rivalries or not end up in consideration for the title. College Football has great fans, but they aren't better than NFL fans. We are all loyal and love fooball.
Go ahead and give up ur Saturdays to the sport u worship, and I'll give up my Sundays. We all are members of the church of Football. Praise Lady of Victory.
2 months ago
I'm rightwith you up until the Bowl Season thing. The Bowl Season is one of the things I like least about college football. For one, they need to streamline the process of figuring out a champion. As a Notre Dame fan, a team that has been no where near the national Championship, I can assure you that this wish has nothing to do with me feeling that my team has been cheated recently. It simply a matter of the process being to subjective.
The BCS is not the only issue I have with the Bowl Season, though. The are simply too many bowls. The idea of making a bowl means so much less thatn it used to because of things like the PapaJohns.com Bowl, the Congressional Bowl, or the Emerald Bowl. Without using Google, who can tell you who was in those bowls last year, anyway?
2 months ago
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/52503-top-5-reasons-the-nfl-is-better-than-minor-league-football-sorry-ncaa-guys
2 months ago
Bowl season? You actually like the Mieneke Car Care Bowl between two 7-8 teams. Everyone gets a bowl game and a trophy.:)
2 months ago
Well, I like the NFL because we have something called "playoffs". I would choose college football if it wasn't for that.
2 months ago
TRUE --- could not agree more Bri
cheers - loved the article
you reminded me of being proud of being a Wolverine
cheers -
2 months ago
really liked it - so I potd it mate
cheers
2 months ago
I agree with number 9, Sundays are my get things done day and just an overall break from sports (mainly the daily grind of watching baseball)
Number 2 not so much. So as long as participation in the National Championship is determined by votes it will always be inferior to the Super Bowl and its on the field qualification.
2 months ago
PLAGERISIM!!!!!!!
You did not write this article. Delete it immediatly.
This article was on Foxsports.net
you copied it word for word.
from 2 months ago
The best Bleacher Report articles get posted at Fox Sports as well. This article is one of them, therefore, it isn't plagiarism.
from 2 months ago
One look at the author of this article and the author of the article on Foxsports.net should end this argument.
from 2 months ago
Thanks for being such a good little internet cop but I am the author of this article as well as my foxsports.com blog. Calm down.
2 months ago
college is also better because in college YOU NEVER GIVE UP. Theres harder hits and its just more fun watching a quarter back or runnuning back running 90 yards at least once a day then where in the NFL you never actually see it
2 months ago
the level of talent is obviously better in the NFL. so that makes it more enjoyable. too often i watch college games screaming "WHY DID THEY LET THAT KID ON THE TEAM?!"
but, i do like college ball. just an NFL fan.
2 months ago
The problem with the fact that the talent in the NFL is far greater is that the teams are RELATIVELY equal in skill. College football is packed with 120 D-1A teams with more from smaller divisions thrown in where the threat of an upset is omnipresent. The NFL is much less exciting. It has fewer yardage, lower scores, fewer big plays, is more predictable and is driven by corporate bloodhounds that, for the most part, couldn't care less for the game. College Football on the other hand is all about pride. Its about taking those athletes that aren't kings of the gridiron (what was it...the 'NFL rejects'...) and molding and developing them into men that will give their all for something in which the only compensation they receive is a sense of pride in self and team and the chance to get out on the field week to week. College football is about passion, discipline, dedication, sacrifice and selflessness. College football is about what is on the sideline, not who. The NFL is about money period. For this reason alone college football is on a plane that the NFL will never reach. College football is for those that understand the game and the reasons we play it.
2 months ago
Good article Brian. You are right about tailgaiting! Where else do you get people tailgaiting on a river like the Vol Navy!!!
2 months ago
You wrote a great article but I respectfully disagree. I am from the south and while I may be in the minority, I could never get into college football. There are too many blowouts and don't get me started on the BCS. The Bowl season is a joke. There are way too many of them and frankly until you have a playoff it more or less makes the regular season about as legitimate as pro wrestling.
There is a good fanbase in college football but some of the traditions are out of date and when you have fans running out on the field to tear down goalposts in the third or fourth week of a season, it gets ridiculous. Most NFL games are close and the game is much better played. The overtime rule is the only thing in college football, I prefer over the pro's.
2 months ago
My apologies, I overlooked a question that was thrown out. At my house, I get all of my chores down on Saturday, so I can watch the NFL all-day on Sundays after church. My wife is a big Tennessee Titans fan and actually watch some of the NFL but cannot stand college football. However, why does one have to be better than the other? It is simply a matter of preference. The NCAA is even bigger of a business than the NFL.
2 months ago
Tradition is what absolutely separates the two. I don't see how anyone can be that passionate about an NFL team they have no real connection to. In Auburn, we have the eagle that circles the stadium every game. We were the first to have the "tiger walk'' ,which is the most copied tradition in college football.
In an earlier post, someone described as the eagle being our mascot, which is true to a degree, we are the tigers. The eagle is more of a pride symbol on account of an old story.
2 months ago
Nice article - I especially appreciate the fight song part. As a music major/sports nut (especially because my dad was in the Purdue marching band)...there's nothing that says college football like the band (and in our case, the world's largest drum!)
2 months ago
I love football but will never consider college football a major sport to be taken seriously until there is a real playoff and a legitimate champion. Bowl games, to me, are just a little more exciting and meaningful than the WNBA. I don't get the hype.