Welcome to Casual Friday, the off-topic open thread where we venture outside Seattle Seahawks talk for just a brief moment.
College football season is underway, in a brave new world where geography ceases to matter and Cal and Stanford now play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, while Washington and Oregon play in the Big Ten conference. The playoff has expanded from four teams to 12, extending the season even more. Did you know the two-minute warning exists in college now? If you didn’t, now you do.
We’re all Seattle Seahawks fans, but how much of the college game do you watch? I know my interest was rekindled over the last two seasons looking at prospective quarterbacks, and perhaps that will continue this year. There was a big gap in my college football consumption due to spending many Saturday nights covering boxing and the UFC, and being on the East Coast meant no staying up for the joy that was Pac-12 After Dark.
I find that the pageantry of college football is not what it once was. The transfer portal may be great for the player but it’s terrible for following teams, and this latest conference realignment is a joke. Play styles being wildly different is enjoyable and refreshingly different from the pros, and there’s no doubt that the crowd atmosphere is a superior experience to most NFL games, but the structure of college football itself is such that I won’t find myself watching college games all day on Saturday like I used to.
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