<p>Not having a pro team in LA is an issue. I grew up a Broncos fan, but they’re not on TV especially often, and before I used the Internet frequently it was hard to really follow them.</p>
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<p>I would much rather watch college football than the NFL. There is so much more excitement and so much pride from fans and players at the college level.</p>
<p>College football has better rules than NFL and IMO is a better game …one foot in-bounds, no 2 minute warning and the overtime setup make college football better (along with the pagentry and tradition).</p>
<p>especially if you are going to a Division I school with a strong football program.</p>
<p>however, it is pretty lame that there is nothing in college football comparable to the NFL playoffs. Playing all year in order to be ranked 1 or 2 in order to play in the national championship game is pretty ridiculous… ie. how does this make the team that is ranked 3 feel?</p>
<p>As some others said, College Fball is better than the NFL if you go to a DI school that is playing. For others who go to a small school it may be opposite. Since I went to Purdue for a year but had to transfer out, I still am a huge NCAA Fball fan. Watched almost every Purdue game on the internet.</p>
<p>One thing I do like about the NFL over college football is the replay. I don’t like how it seems some college games they replay every other play!</p>
<p>Because I’m from a city with an NFL team (New Orleans Saints), I’ve been to both NFL and college football games. I like NFL games, but I love college games. I enjoy listening to the band play at halftime and seeing the raucous student sections. I love tailgating with friends and beating our hated rivals. I love watching overtime and singing the fight song after thrilling victory. I love the tradition and history. In college, home-field advantage is so much more important than than in the NFL because of the devoted fan bases that have deep emotional attachments to their schools. Very few NFL teams can claim to have as devoted of a fan base as many major colleges. </p>
<p>In New Orleans, the Saints are huge. The Louisiana Superdome fills every week with passionate fans that love their team, and everyone in the city is talking about their undefeated start to the year. Throughout the state, LSU is bigger. Friends of mine at LSU can name every player on the depth chart, and the same holds true for my school, Alabama. I believe most fans (at least in the South) simply care more about college football than NFL.</p>
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<p>I actually like this better because anything that is questionable is sent to the replay crew so that they can make sure it is correct. In the NFL, if a team wants a play reviewed before the two minute warning and is out of timeouts, they are quite simply out of luck. Many bad calls haven’t been reversed because the team was unable to challenge the play. Of course, the replay crew better get the call right if they are taking the time to review it.</p>
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<p>I know it’s cliche to say, but every week is a playoff. Most years, teams have to stay undefeated to get into the National Championship. I would love a playoff system though where the winner of each conference and a few at-large teams made a sixteen team bracket for the National Championship.</p>
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<p>And there’s the downside of the college system.</p>
<p>The thing about it is the officials aren’t missing a ton of calls. It seems like many of them are “confirmed.”</p>
<p>And so Stanford goes down…to a team USC crushed earlier in the season. What a crazy year in the pac-10.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s the “beat USC” curse? Under Pete Carroll, teams that beat USC are only 4-12 in their next game (not counting games the next season). Of the 4 teams that won, 2 of them lost the 2nd game after playing USC.</p>
<p>I just lost brain cells watching that Les Miles clock management clinic</p>
<p>I don’t want to offend anyone… but someone showed me this screen capture of Les Miles’ Wiki entry after the game.</p>
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<p>Look at Mississippi Meltdown. :)</p>
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Playcalling cost 'furd the game. Not running with senior stud Gerhart and relying on passing from a not-as-sharp-as-he-had-been Andrew Luck was foolish in the waning minutes… but I didn’t mind the outcome. ;)</p>
<p>It’s tough to stay focused for 12 games…especially coming out of two emotionally high victories. Cal defense got hungry and Kevin Riley gained confidence.</p>
<p>That wiki image of Les is funny</p>
<p>Is there a college basketball 09 thread?</p>
<p>^yes there is</p>
<p>link? (10char)</p>
<p>Find it yourself.</p>
<p>(Hint: It’s currently on the first page. By the time you read this, it may be on the second.)</p>
<p>Even though I want Ingram to win the Heisman, Colt McCoy put on a Heisman-worthy show Thursday night.</p>
<p>If Colt has another game like that vs Nebraska and Ingram plays like he did vs Auburn, then McCoy would have a really good chance for Heisman.</p>