How can anybody take college football seriously?

Why would you use a Texas game as representative of college football's quality? Texas and Iowa State are both horrible. There are, like, 128 Div-1A teams and many of them play better quality ball than Texas and ISU.

Different strokes for different folks. It depends on what you value in sports and football as to whether or not you prefer the NFL or college football. For me, I have no NFL team but I have a college team, the school I attended. I can't root for my home state Tennessee Titans, because I hate/have no pride in where I'm from, so no NFL team makes sense to me--I lack respect for bandwagoners--but I love and have a lot of pride in my alma mater. Plus, I can't deal with how in the NFL there are not really teams that are "supposed" to be good every single season. To me, NFL teams lack an identity and are more about individual players (usually QB) who all eventually move on. They can win the Super Bowl one season, then miss the playoffs the next two seasons. I want to support a team that I can generally expect to be good every season, and that can't happen with the NFL. My college team is not good right now, but their history is among the best in college football and, so, I would expect them to be good again. I also like how huge rivalry games are in college football, and I love offense. I'm looking at the Tennessee-Washington game right now, and the score is 16-10 in the 4th quarter (okay, Tennessee just got a TD, but I mean...17-16...score some damn points). Boring. But a lot of NFL fans value defense.

So, I mean, it's about what you value.

I prefer NFL way more than college so I agree. But that's how it's always been really, its common for good teams like Alabama to put up 60+ on worse teams so I don't find it hard to believe that 17 points can be scored in under 2 minutes. That also can happen in the NFL too though so I don't see that as your only reason for not liking it. Its the unexpected and week to week factor of the NFL I love. The NCAA isn't really like that imo.

There was a time when winning the conference championship was special and meant something. And the bowl game was just for bragging rights and a free vacation. Now you have teams out of region playing in conference half way across the nation. Now the BCS is all about sponsorships and money not competition. Now the Rose Bowl doesn't mean anything. And there are like 40 bowl games in December-January. Does anybody give a damn about the Ace Hardware Bowl Game of UNLV vs Miami (Ohio).

NCAA football is a professional league. The players should be given salaries and not be punished for doing autographs for money.

First of all, it sounds like you like defense because apparently you hate watching a team of 20 year old players execute 2 minute drills back to back. If that happened in the NFL would you be having a great time? Or would it be a huge joke to you? And if you don't like it you should switch to college football now because that's what the NFL is becoming if you haven't been watching. Go watch soccer buddy.

NCAA overtime rules area lot better than the NFL's. They should change the college overtime rules so that if a team scores a touchdown, they should have to go for two instead of waiting for the third overtime.

I enjoy college football more because if the history of the schools. Pros just go from team to team, but in college, you have the same alma mater. That's why I like it.

LOL! I agree pro football is better but I like it because the players are bigger, faster, stronger, and overall better than the college level. Plus there aren't annoying bands playing show tunes in the league. Does anyone really like the bands?

As for you, you sound like a whiny longhorns fan who called for the head of one of the best coaches ever and applauded when the university brought in some guy trying to make UT a Bible college and the transformation didn't happen over night.

Baby!

Yes, that is where the pros draft from, very few have made it in modern times without it. You have rule changes at different levels of play, college basketball only has 2 periods. Get over the loss of you team and get ready for more games tomorrow, apparently ones you will agree with more

There's more colleges than nfl teams so places that don't have NFL teams can root for there college football team.

There are many reasons that the NFL is better. But none of what you mentioned is part of it.

The fact that teams can come from behind and make dramatic comebacks is a bad thing?

This is why I stick to Pop Warner.