College football has a long and storied history, far longer than the modern NFL, and just one reason why the college game is better than pro ball.
What’s better than tailgating on an early autumn day to catch some college football? True college football fans know the experiences of cheering on a favorite team and I myself have basked in the glory that is college football.
I am a firm believer that college football is more fun to watch than the NFL. Here are five reasons to back that up.
5. The Upsets
It’s happened before. One team that should clearly win but is knocked off miraculously by the other in spite of the odds stacked against it. Upsets can happen at any given moment and at any given time, but that’s the beauty of college football. On a week to week basis, no team is truly safe until the fourth-quarter clock reads 00:00.
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While a fan never wants their team to lose to a much weaker opponent, upsets add to the excitement of the game during a regular season in which every game matters.
For instance, who would have ever expected Appalachian State to upset the Michigan Wolverines, the winningest college football program in history, with a last-second blocked field goal attempt in 2007? Probably no one.
Or to a lesser degree, who would have anticipated Alabama to not win the SEC after being the reigning champion four years straight? Not many people.
Admittedly, upsets are served best when a fan’s team comes out on the winning end, as opposed to the other way around. But, if the same were to happen in the NFL, it would be considered more of a “bad loss” than an upset. This inherently makes the college football upset more exciting to watch.
There is a certain amount of drama to unfold and mind-boggling realizations to process when a lesser team upsets a team that is favored to win.
If a non-Power 5 team takes down a powerhouse program, that is an accomplishment in it of itself because of the likelihood that the lesser team is severely overmatched by the powerhouse team in size and talent. There is a distinction between the college football teams that tend to do really well and those that don’t. Recruiting can play a factor is skewing these scales, but the unbalanced nature of some matchups makes the prospect of an upset that much more invigorating.