5 Reasons College Football is Superior to the NFL
1. Fans Don’t Wear Jerseys
This isn’t entirely true, because fans of some schools tend to wear jerseys more than others, but when looking at college football as a whole versus the NFL, there are far more jersey-wearers in NFL stadiums. Wearing a jersey to a football games is a terrible trend typically reserved for plumbers, rappers or wanna-be rappers (no offense to these respected professions).
2. Better Male / Female Ratio
Unless you attend a school like Georgia Tech, the beautiful co-eds are one of the best reasons to attend college. Every Saturday in the fall these co-eds are on display. Take a tour of college campuses in the south, and you’ll likely be admiring the well-dressed female fans off the field more than you will the actual play taking place on the field.
This is not the case in the NFL. Often times the only good looking women in the stadium are the cheerleaders on the field or the wives of the men sitting in the suites.
3. Lack of Parity
Parity is the most overrated aspect of professional sports. Parity means all teams are essentially on equal footing making a league more competitive. College football has very little parity when you look across the entire country.
Even if your team is having a down year, you can count on a few cupcake games where you run up the score on a bunch of rejects. This enables three things. First, it allows average teams to reach bowl eligibility, which enables them to make an ass of themselves during late December/early January. Second, it provides a reminder that there is another team out there that’s way worse than your team. Lastly, it makes you think that you could have played college football because you have to be better than the 5’2 guy playing safety for that cupcake team.
Instead of criticizing the lack of parity in college football, let’s be honest with ourselves and start acknowledging that we love it.
4. Better Tailgating
While drinking beer and eating chili in a cold parking lot outside a stadium can be enjoyable, NFL tailgating is pretty mediocre compared to college tailgating. Tailgating in college football is bigger than the game itself. Every open space on entire college campuses and in entire college towns is turned into a tailgating event during a gameday weekend. Heck, die-hard tailgaters roll into town mid-week with RVs and tailgate for 4 or 5 days straight.
In college, you even have a small group of fans that do nothing but tailgate. Literally. They don’t even go to the games. You probably know one of these gentlemen. They are outstanding people. They tailgate all day, watch the game on a television outside the stadium or engage in some other worthwhile activity, and then resume with the rest of the fans after the game. Their focus is singular. Tailgating is their passion.
5. Inter Conference Warfare
Perhaps the biggest difference between college and pro football is that in college it’s not just enough to beat a team, you have to beat their conference. In recent years, you even try to put opposing conferences out of business.
Conference pride is big in college football. If your team isn’t playing, college fans will still root for the team representing their conference. This is very different than any other sport. When is the last time you heard a baseball fan root for the NL East?
Even more awesome is the convergence of business and conference pride in recent years. Yes, we’re talking about conference realignment. Nowadays, it’s not enough to have a better win/loss record against another conference. Now, conferences try to steal the best teams from other conferences and force them to go under. Without an overarching central authority, conferences are autonomous entities. Their gain is often at the expense of another conference. When the SEC fan is rooting against the ACC, they’re not just looking for on-the-field victory; they are looking for the ACC to go under and for entire athletic programs to vanish. This has led to a whole new dimension of being a fan.
2. Better Male / Female Ratio: “Unless you attend a school like Georgia Tech…”
12 years ago at 6:11 pmSo true.
i lived in atl my whole life. i got a scholarship (besides the hope) to gt. then i said fuck that shit im going to clemson.
12 years ago at 6:57 pm^No. Fucking. Way.
12 years ago at 7:30 pm^^ fucking affirmative action
12 years ago at 8:11 pm*Affirmative blaction.
12 years ago at 12:02 pmGo Dawgs.
12 years ago at 2:30 pm^ pretty sure you spelled “dwags” wrong chief.
12 years ago at 3:05 pmHey man what we lack in booze and women and recent national championships we make up for in being smarter than everyone else.
12 years ago at 3:08 pmRivalries are better in college too. Texas/OU LSU/Arkansas Bama/Auburn etc. doesnt compare to Dallas/Giants Jets/Patriots.
12 years ago at 6:31 pmHook em
12 years ago at 6:55 pm^^ I like the suddle exclusion of Big Ten rivalries. Frat on.
12 years ago at 8:13 pm“Suddle.”
The lesson, as always: when your conference wins 6 straight National Championships, silly Big Ten things like literacy become overrated.
12 years ago at 8:18 pm^ This. Boomer Sooner
12 years ago at 8:49 pmSubtle* dumbfucks
12 years ago at 9:01 pmLaughed pretty hard at that, JParks. You can always count on a Big Ten guy to pull through with things involving your brain.
12 years ago at 11:41 pm^^^ Because Oklahoma is such an amazing institute for higher education.
Big Ten all the way.
12 years ago at 12:28 amEveryone fucking knows Michigan/ohio is the best rivalry in college football. Nobody in the south has ever had 114,500 into a stadium.
12 years ago at 12:56 pm^ That’s a lot of geeds in one stadium!
12 years ago at 3:13 pm^ This
12 years ago at 4:20 pmArmy/Navy, yes I know Army has suffered a “Decade of Defeat” but it’s watching the guys that fight for ‘Merica fight against each other before joining the same team. Plus, even though Army has lost for ten straight years, they still have some of the most passionate fans I’ve ever seen.
12 years ago at 12:02 pmThe rivalry part is probably the best. Most of the ones in the NFL are a joke – only a handful (Pats/Jets, Packers/Bears, Ravens/Steelers) come close to the level of intensity and even then they can’t match the sheer length of history you see in the classic college rivalries.
12 years ago at 6:41 pmits definitely all about the rivalries. Nothing can inspire such a pure, true hatred in unique strangers like college football rivalries. Add a little (lot) drunken pride, and you’ve got the reason they need an entire towns worth of cops for the OU/TX, Auburn/Alabama, and FLA/FSU games.
One of the best feelings about them too, is that no matter the outcome, you always know you can watch it next year. True rivalries never die. You can watch your team kick other teams asses until you’re 90 (Unless you’re Texas and Texas A&M I guess).
12 years ago at 6:51 pmA&M is only getting worse and Texas is getting better, it’s good for A&M that they stop playing. Although I am going to miss the rivalry.
12 years ago at 8:25 pmTexas has sucked for the past 5 years or so?
12 years ago at 8:54 pm^ I’ll take ‘Reasons the Longhorn Network was a bad idea’ for 100, Alex.
12 years ago at 9:45 pm^This
12 years ago at 10:33 amTexas hasn’t been playing like Texas the past five years, I wouldn’t say they suck.
12 years ago at 10:53 pmYeah, but to say they’ve been getting better and better is just kind of…bullshit right now. Give them a few more years to rebuild.
12 years ago at 10:57 pmA few years to rebuild? Texas gets a top 3 recruiting class every year. How are they rebuilding? They’re always stacked. Mack Brown is the problem. Boomer
12 years ago at 4:09 amThink about the last time Texas was a “good” team, it was when Colt was there. Texas got unlucky with Garrett Gilbert and last year was a mess. I think that David Ash will be good enough this year just because all he has to do is hand off the ball to three of the best running backs Texas has seen in a while.
12 years ago at 9:08 amOklahoma, the hairy unwiped asshole of America.
12 years ago at 1:58 pmThe actual game of football is much more enjoyable to watch at the professional level. Watching Alabama roll over pansy-asses is not what I’d like to call football, but the college atmosphere is superior.
12 years ago at 7:02 pm^ His college team sucks.
12 years ago at 7:03 pmyeah I’ve heard the SEC West is pretty weak
12 years ago at 8:14 pmThe Grove. TFM
12 years ago at 7:53 pm^ THIS
From Dixie With Love
12 years ago at 8:19 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEN9y3zgmo
These are all good reasons but when it comes to the game itself I’ll take the highest level of competition
12 years ago at 8:36 pmWell, Virginia is not really a football state.
12 years ago at 11:51 amWhile SEC teams do have rival games….pretty much every team in the SEC has/had 3 or 4 rivals. Hell, most in conference games feel like rival games when compared to other conferences.
12 years ago at 8:56 pmFantasy is FaF though…
12 years ago at 9:01 pmagreed…even then I lean towards guys who played in the best football conference on the planet. SEC that is.
12 years ago at 5:04 amIt’s really odd that this entire discussion about parity in the NFL came just a couple hours before there was a segment on it and socialism on the Daily Show. I guess we know where Comedy Central gets their material. CALL THE LAWYERS DORN YOU GOT A SITUATION
12 years ago at 9:12 pmSomebody watches the gay-ly show…
12 years ago at 9:26 pm