Man, watching college football is frustrating as shit for me. Every week there's some ridiculous play that would never happen in the NFL that turns a winner into a loser. That fucking Arkansas wild ass lateral from last week being the latest moronic play. Having seasons turn on shit like that is ludicrous. The college football playoff is better than the BCS, but it's still a subpar way to determine a champion. At least in the NFL, if a stupid ass play like that does happen, you have 15 other games to make up for it, make the playoffs and settle it on the field. Not to mention any team not in the Big 10 or SEC has a distinct disadvantage in making the playoff.
One of the things that I really don't like about pro football is that I no longer cheer without hesitation for plays. I hold my breath and watch for a flag after nearly every play, and often I must wait several moments to see how the refs viewed the play through the contorted prism of ridiculously over-complex rules. For me, anyway, it feels like I'm cheering the interpretations of refs.
After the Dez catch in Green Bay was accurately ruled a non-catch by refs because NFL rules don't allow some actual catches to count as catches (because the rules committee wishes to prevent "cheap fumbles"), and more generally given how the NFL game has become so rule-bound (like the muscle-bound person who can only move awkwardly), I can't condone how the NFL refs its games. IMO, the cure is worse than the illness. I'd much rather see an occasional blown call than watch a rule-bound game that is so dominated by the impressions of refs who have been given the impossible task of implementing a ridiculously complex set of rules.
College football sucks ass for the most part. I'm sorry, but games that routinely total 100+ points combined is garbage fucking football.
College games also take too damn long to play now. Many games last 4 hours or more.
The officiating might even be more outrageous in college football than NFL football, and that's saying something.
If I lived in Texas and followed the likes of Baylor, TCU, Texas Tech, Houston, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State, I wouldn't like college football nearly as much. Pinball football holds no appeal to me either.
The length of games doesn't bother me. It didn't bother me back when NFL games were longer than they are now. I kind of liked it.
