Something needs to be done about the number of games against FCS teams.

What you mean is “something should be done about teams moving to FBS when they clearly belong in FCS”.

+1 to both. No reason for Alabama to schedule 3 FCS teams. We get an 8-team playoff, no scheduling FCS teams and marquee games every couple of years (alabama against, say, USC) and you’re good to go. Oh and getting rid of idiots like Jim Delaney.

Something needs to be done about the number of games against FCS teams.

What you mean is “something should be done about teams moving to FBS when they clearly belong in FCS”.

College football without even with tradition is nothing more than minor league football.

College footall without tradition is nothing more than minor league football.

This is far and away the most salient point in this discussion.

Maybe it was you. But I continue to lobby for the expulsion of the term “at-large team” from all playoff discussion. Dumbest concept ever.

my alma maters are u of idaho and NIU

Hey, NIU runs with the big dogs now!

/ Well, ran briefly, until one of the big dogs pissed on it in the Orange Bowl

College footall without tradition is nothing more than minor league football

And Nike/Under Armour combined with NCAA greed are doing their best to kill what little tradition remains.

/ New uniforms every game!

“Let me tell you something – there’s gonna be a lot of things we don’t tell Mrs. Clinton about. Fast food is the least of our worries”

That scene also had Nealon, Meadows, Farley… so so good. We say “warlords” when traveling and see a McDonalds.

/I was

Other than that, many casual sports fans I know couldn’t care less about college football and do view it, as Darrell points out, as minor league football.

since my alma maters are u of idaho and NIU, #2 is what fuels my fire

A big problem, for whatever reason, is that CFB appeal is still “localized”. In the Northeast, most of the media look down at college (even though their pro-teams are fed via it), I suspect because it’s big in the south and they’re too “elite” to be concerned with it, even with ESPN in Bristol. Also having poor local product (Big East, etc) does not help the case. I suspect this will change with the increased TV exposure.

My experience with college football growing up and living in the Northeast:

1.) You care if you are an alum or have an allegiance to a certain school/team. (Yes, you ND fans that are fans of the program because your last name happens to begin with “O’”, that means you).

2.) You like to gamble.

Other than that, many casual sports fans I know couldn’t care less about college football and do view it, as Darrell points out, as minor league football.

Then they changed it to MadTV. That was one of my earliest moments of giving up on human life in my young existence.

Spoken like someone who’s never had his soul touched by Kenny Rogers’ Jackass

I laughed. Remember when Comedy Central used to have old SNL reruns on every afternoon? Good times.

Then they changed it to MadTV. That was one of my earliest moments of giving up on human life in my young existence.

I laughed. Remember when Comedy Central used to have old SNL reruns on every afternoon? Good times.

And Kids in the Hall at noon back in college…the best

It’s always the bottom half of the big 10…and those teams blow goats.

Northwestern is usually good for 3-4 nailbiters in the early slot…although with the improvement that program’s shown they might be playing themselves into some 2:30 slots

It’s always the bottom half of the big 10…and those teams blow goats.

That isn’t a new thing. It has been like that for years.

the critic muscling up. celebrity deathmatch should have done a recreation