re: Sports Illustrated - NFL v CFB debate

I'm not sure why people feel the need to compare the two. I love both, and I get college on one day and NFL on the other.

NFL is boring, sterile corporate garbage these days.

Artificial hype and artificial enthusiasm.

It's so far divorced from the spirit of sport it's gross.

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I'm not sure why people feel the need to compare the two. I love both, and I get college on one day and NFL on the other.

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when i was growing up, I can't recall debates like this at all. But things change.

the game has changed.

people change.

a longtime friend of mine use to be the biggest Alabama fan i knew. He still keeps up with the team and is obviously proud of their success but he's married and has two kids. He barely mentions Alabama Football in a conversation now.

i use to be totally locked in to the NFL but in recent years, not as much. The obvious difference in which the game is played is #1. The way the games are officiated. The politics of the league are also super annoying and redundant.

I love both. Always have.

The NFL is just sterile. I haven't even bothered to watch 4 of the last 5 super bowls. As pure dogshit as the CFB post-season is, I've watched probably 100 of the bowl games over that same period. 3 NFL postseason games in total.

There's something to be said for actually attending a school and knowing the players did too. Some of them may have even taken the same classes with the same professors. Lived in the same dorms. Even when teams are out of the running, the players try hard throughout the season. NFL players are all mercenaries with little allegiance to any team or city (for the most part, I know some become icons for a franchise). Throw in all the traditions, fight songs, iconic names, the best stadiums, and it's lopsided for CFB.

I went to UCF and then LSU, so I get to see both sides of the coin in CFB. Ever since I moved to Louisiana, UCF has been that plucky underdog who's somehow one of 7 or 8 teams with 2+ BCS/NY6 wins in the last five years. LSU has gone downhill during that time, but I still get to see and appreciate all the culture and history that comes with a program dating back to the 1800's (UCF wasn't even a FBS team until 1997). For the love of god, I need to see LSU beat Alabama once before I get out of this state.

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CFB is going to be better for people who went to schools where it's important. People from a young age have college affiliations ingrained into their lives different from pro teams.

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yep

I moved to the NorthEast (NYC)
The big schools up here in the region I would say is Rutgers and maybe Syracuse.

Now at Rugters, college sports aren't that big/followed by the student body. Most Rutgers grads I met are from the NY/NJ area and prefer their pro team to their college team (Jets and Giants)

Syracuse, is mostly a basketball school. You have some diehards but for them too it's their pro team.

Not until you get the Penn State, ND, Michigan alums do you see College over pro.

I prefer college football by a wide margin. I think it's because I find it more entertaining. I can sit down in front of the TV and watch any college game, doesn't matter who is playing, from start to finish. For whatever reason, unless it's the playoffs, I can't do that with the NFL.

This is a college website so of course most on here suck off everything college ball. I like college ball, too. I fricking love football. But no doubt the nfl always has and always will be more popular than college. It destroys it in ratings and always and forever will do so. It’s better football.



When LSU won titles it was cool. When the saints won the super bowl the entire state went nuts. People partied all night. Grown arse men were crying. It meant more than anything LSU ever has done, and it really isn’t close. This isn’t debatable either

NFL: Some players don't stand for the anthem.

CFB: Zero players stand for the anthem.