I love the NFL but...........................

[WPIL]

College is so much better

Bowl Games so far

RG the Third - How many touchdowns

Rose Bowl - What a game and is there any better place in the world to watch a day/sunset/night game

OSU vs Luck/Stanford (Peyton to the Redskins!) and Sky Planner failure with 2 minutes to go - believe it was close

Settling in to Bama vs LSU - DEFENCE

Been to the Wembley Games

Been to NFL

Sunday Night - Skins vs Eagles - Mad Atmosphere and Sean Taylor making a She Eagle receiver **** him/herself from a catch

San Diego - Love NFL in the Sun

Arizona - Love NFL in the Sun where half the Stadium are Skins

Been to a Super Bowl in Minnesota (not the Rose Bowl) (Cold so Cold but what a party - Bills Fans were great TBF and so was Rypien)

Probably best Atmosphere was Cal vs Oregon State - LSU lost earlier in day and Cal were in driving seat for No 1 until last min fail and this is not regarded as a hard core college stadium (so many to mention - Blue Pitches, On a Lake, Bama, Penn State etc etc) but earthquake instructions in a stadium with crumbling wooden seats

SO COLLEGE ROCKS and is better than the NFL

[Longy]

I have just go into College football this last couple of years and have enjoyed it.

Still NFL is obv better, it is like saying U21 football is better saying college is better.

[LeKnave]

reckon going to a big college game would be unlike anything though, some of them look absolutely electric!

[Marky147]

I watched a college game a couple weeks ago and it was like watching Sunday morning Football in comparison to the NFL.....

They probably get more drinking done at a college game no doubt, the one I watched it looked like the players were the ones that had been doing it though

I'll have to watch a few more games next season to get a better sample as I obv ran bad and got the worst game of the year or something.

[Matt.NFFC.]

Having only watched a few College games on telly this year, the atmosphere looks fantastic, with the bands, and almost soccer like chants.

Plans are in motion for my trip next year.....5 days in San Francisco to watch the Oakland Raiders and maybe a college game in the area, then onto Vegas for 5 days......gonna be about 4 grand all in.

One question, which college game could I go to watch??  Would it be Stanford Cal?

[TightEnd]

The BCS ranking systems and bowl games are just baffling

Lots of politics and vested interests in college football

Enjoy the games, like spotting future NFL players but it would be far better, for me, with a simpler ranking system/play-offs etc

[Sheriff Fatman]

Support of the College teams over far is far closer to what we identify with as football fans so it seems to me that the college games would have a far better atmosphere than typical NFL fixtures.

American's are far too used to franchises and teams relocating so the NFL support is much more fickle than the equivalent support for the college teams where the allegiance runs much deeper.  It's totally alien to us Brits as it's the wrong way round to what we'd expect over here.

Take someone born and bred in LA, as an example.  They may have been Raiders or Rams fans due to previous franchises, possibly follow the Chargers these days as the most local team but probably don't have a great allegiance to them and would probably jump ship to the Jaguars or Vikings if they end up being the new LA franchise.  There's no way they jump around like this with their college allegiances.  They're either rabid supporters of one of the local college teams or their allegiance lies strongly with their own alma mater.


I agree with Tighty regarding the rankings and play-offs.  I understand it far better now that I did two years ago, but it's still baffliing and incredibly controversial, as demonstrated by the outcome of Monday's BCS Title game.  I'd be intrigued as to whether anyone on here could try to explain the system of rankings/Bowl games in layman's terms without reference to google or similar.  I know I couldn't, beyond the most obvious bits.

[Longy]

MattNFFC- Yeah if you go the bay area, Stanford and Cal are the teams in the area.

Agree with Tighty and Sherriff that the whole rankings/post season needs an overhaul. The post season seems simpler by having the top x teams from the rankings play against one another by there is so much politics in the way. How Virginia Tech got in a BCS bowl game over a team like Boise State is ridic.

There is also the ludicrous situation of having academic institutions making crap loads of money and the atheletes seeing virtually none of it. Haven't even mentioned Penn State yet!

Sheriff- I am tempted to try and explain the system but would almost certainly screw it up. I spent a couple of hours on wikipedia on my last trip filling gaps in my knowledge!

[marcro]

I went to the University of Alabama and the home college games were fantastic days out.  We had average home gates of 60,000 - it was not bigger because that is all the seats in the stadium.  There is a lot of passion in supporting your college team - much more so than your NFL team.

[WPIL]

Marcro
Roll Tide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Honey Badger UL
What a  D Battle it was
College Football is so much bigger than the NFL in the South (The Swamp over Joe Robbie evertime)
Matt
Defo Cal over Stanford (who are the posh boys)
But USC over Cal (Biggest Football team in LA)
And then the Ducks over USC (not far to fly)
And Probs agree somewhere along the line Boise should have had a shot at Title Game