Is it a popular sentiment? Probably more so than you might think, but it really isn't. But the fact is, in my mind, college football is just better than the pros. Pro football has become increasingly about Brett Favre or the Madden Curse. Pro football has exorbitant fines if your uniform isn't exactly right (to paraphrase Peter Gibbons, the Nazis made the Jews wear uniforms, too). Pro football has free agency, veterans being cut left and right, and Daunte Culpepper not being able to find a job.
College football for the most part has few team changes. The games don't fit into some insane bit of history. There is no Spygate. Whereas the NFL has Spygate, college football has supposed offensive genius Charlie Weis guiding the nation's worst offense in 2007. The college game is about what happens on the field, not what happens on the sidelines.
The college game has multiple threats like Percy Harvin or Terrelle Pryor. In the NFL, one guy becomes a multiple threat (Hester) and everyone thinks it's the greatest thing ever.
I have disjointed thoughts about this, and part of it is assuredly that in college, I root for one of the most talked-about and legendary programs ever (Notre Dame), and in the pros, I root for one of the most completely irrelevant and mediocre franchises (Carolina Panthers). But here's the simple truth: I will watch college football day to night, no matter whether ND is involved or not. I cannot stand to watch NFL football in the same fashion. College football is different from the NFL, and in my mind, different is better.
Much better.
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