Football season starts this weekend! And while the high schoolers got the ball rolling last week, now college football gets its chance to join the party.
For me, there is no better sport in the entire world than college football. The game, the athletes, the drama, everything about it is 100 times better than the NFL. Maybe it’s my distaste for overpaid, arrogant athletes, or maybe it’s just the fact that as a Lions fan, I’ve never really had a true NFL experience…but I’d rather cram into the bleachers at the Big House than lounge in a box seat at Ford Field.
Before we get the ball rolling this weekend, I have a countdown of the five things that make college football the best game in the land:
-Tailgating. I know there’s tailgating at just about every outdoor sporting event, but nothing compares to an extra 80,000 plus fans overwhelming a college town to take in the game and excessively take in some food and drinks.
-College girls. I know I’m not far removed from that scene, so thankfully I don’t sound creepy saying it, but there’s just something about co-eds painted in school colors and showing plenty of…um…spirit. And you’re not creepy if you agree with me.
-Student sections. Though Lions fans can get quite boistrious in their booing of the team, specific players, management…it’s nothing compared to many college student sections and their coordinated cheers, jeers, and pushups after touchdowns.
-Upsets. When the Lions beat the Cowboys last year, everyone was ticked off because they blew their chance at a good draft pick. When an upset of epic proportions happens in college football, the fans storm the field, rip down the goalposts, and carry them off. Notice a difference in enthusiasm?
And why is there such enthusiasm? Because of our last point: RIVALRIES! Yeah, Bears-Packers is a good NFC rivalry. Giants-Jets can get chippy. Chiefs and Broncos might be worth watching. But they all pale in comparison to Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Florida State, Notre Dame-USC,…and the ultimate: Ohio State vs. Michigan. These rivalries don’t just make opposing fan bases hate eat other, they make entire states…entire pieces of the COUNTRY turn against each other. And when does a single regular season NFL game determine a team’s success for an entire season? Most college football teams have at least two games that can make or break them.
Big ups to college football!
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