College football is a lot like the premier league. Very tiered even within the top division. A small predictable pool of teams that have the resources to make a run and very little parity measures (unlike the NFL).
What makes it magical are the local fandoms and the communities surrounding these teams (online and in-person), like the really local teams in the UK.
Pick a fandom you relate to or enjoy because they don't change. It can be some provincial school that loses its mind every time they beat their rival, despite only having 4 wins. It can be one of the big boys that pack 100,000 capacity stadiums and expect to win the conference every year. And everything in between.
This is the best analogy and best advice to a UK resident.
People hate on US soccer because it's not the same vibe as UK soccer. But we already have UK soccer, it's called CFB.
Some fandoms are only happy if they win it all, and are terribly angered/depressed otherwise. Other Fandoms are euphorically satiated for decades on a single magical season/game. (Like a top premiere team expected to win vs a 3rd tier clubs magical cup run)
Regardless of where each Fandom falls in the tiers, We all live for Fall Saturdays.
OP, don't focus on picking a "team". Pick a region you think you'd best relate to, maybe one you could see yourself visiting one day. Then, in that region, focus on what experience you'd like from there: Powerhouse, mid-tier P5, or G5.
the reason I got into CFB so much is because it's the closest I can get to Premier League vibes in America. I just wish we had their quality of crowd chants, but everything else is good.
Alternatively, CFB can be the entire top four tiers of the English league.
The ranked guys is PL
The rest of P5 and G5 is the championship
And down in league 1 you have crazy stuff like MACtion
And then the small local conferences are like league 2
I disagree, think it looks more like this:
It’s more like big, historical programs are the PL, the Big 6 (Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Tottenham, and Chelsea) being Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC, Michigan, and Oklahoma (Oklahoma this year being like this years Chelsea, both disappointing). The rest of the PL would be big-time P5s so like Texas, Texas A&M, Florida, UCLA, Penn State, etc.
Championship would be lower P5 so your Oregon State, Washington State, Syracuse type deal.
League One would be High tier G5 so San Diego State, Fresno State, UTSA, FAU, and Memphis.
League Two would be the rest of G5 and high-tier FCS so like Akron, NDSU, and SDSU.
Rest of FCS would be National League.
D2 is National League North/South.
D3 is Sunday League.
https://cfb.guide/
The top rows under each date with channels like ABC/ESPN/CBS/Fox or the games with teams with numbers next to their names are the "big games" usually.
Fellow Brit
Games are on BT Sports. Record your teams and the show after, because most games run over. And make sure to record multi airings of College Football Final, which rounds up the week, because they regularly swap it out for highlights from other sports without changing the published schedule
As for teams, find out which team your favourite players are from, then fellow them, eg: Patrick Mahomes = Texas Tech, CMC = Stanford, OBJ = LSU, JJ Watt = Wisconsin, Jalen Ramsey = Florida state. The Rock uaed to play for Miami too before he was a wrestler.
Or, watch a college football movie to see if one clicks, eg: Rudy = ND, The Express = Syracuse, Safety = Clemson, We are Marshall = Marshall, and Forrest Gump = Alabama kinda.
Alternatively, their are religious affiliations. ND and Boston College = Catholic, BYU = Mormon, Liberty = Evangelical, Syracuse = Presbytarian, Baylor = Baptist
Additionally, there is style of play. Some do it better than others, and some will have new innovations with new coaches, but generally...
Offensive led: USC, Oklahoma, Oregon, Florida State, Texas, etc
Defensive led: Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Miami, etc
Finally, there are tiers.
Blue Blood:
ND, Alabama, USC, tOSU, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, possible Miami
Edit:
Also, you can buy a Notre Dame season pass directly from NBC Sports International. I'm suprised the Big Ten Network and SEC Network don't offer something similar TBH.
As a Brit myself I did this and caught the Prayer at Jordan Hare and the kick 6 in back to back games on BT and now I'm stuck being an Auburn fan. Nobody warned me it wouldn't always be like those games....
Kick 6 is arguably the greatest play in CFB history. I'd fucked off to brew a coffee, thinking either he doesn't make it and it's over, or he does and it's OT.
Came back to see the scenes, I couldn't believe I'd missed it live.
Ahh not a bad assumption, there is a Dutch connection but it’s for the initial colonization of New York by the Netherlands, but I think even that was backfilling a story for why they had already chosen Orange
I think the best way for a casual viewer to start following along more closely would be to watch out for games that are expected to be close. This sub shares a few lists each week highlighting the "best" games to watch for the upcoming weekend. These lists don't exclusively highlight the highest ranked teams, but instead focus on which games *should* be exciting and fun to watch. These lists will narrow down your personal "must watch" list to something more manageable, and you'll avoid the 65-3 blowouts.
After a few weeks of that, you should have enough exposure to pick up on differences in schools' traditions, follow national storylines for the season, and get a feel for which team(s) might be your favorite to follow.
Also, the "Sickos Game of the Week" can be tremendously useful.
You know what bad soccer looks like, but I can promise bad-CFB is a wonderful treat (and will help you understand the weird peculiarities of college v. NFL).
Sickos Games will answer questions about the sport you never even knew you had. Questions like "what happens if you cross the line of scrimmage before you punt the ball". Important questions.
Watch some games, decide which team you hate the most. The one that watching them makes you physically sick to your stomach.
That’s the team you are a true fan of.
IMHO, College football is better than the NFL. I like both, but college is more passionate. If I were you I'd pick a college team and give it a full season. Follow the team closely, read their websites and participate on the message boards (like this one) and you'll become part of the community. And after the season is over you may want to plan a trip to see a game next season in person.
Well since it's the offseason at the moment, I'd recommend listening to some podcasts to get your feet wet and to get some general knowledge about what's going on in the sport. My 2 go to podcasts are The Late Kick with Josh Pate and the Cover 3 podcast. There's also plenty of season preview magazines that you could buy and read on your phone or tablet, my personal favorite is Phil Steele. Once the season starts in a little over a month, just watch as many games as you can. I don't know how many college football games are shown in the UK, if any at all. But if you're committed to watching, I recommend downloading a VPN(if you haven't already to watch the Niners) and signing up for a streaming service, YouTubeTV and Hulu Live are both good options, they'll give you a lot of channels that show CFB games. If you're worried about who to root for, I wouldn't worry about that until the season starts. Just watch as many different teams as you can and after a while you'll most likely find yourself gravitating towards a certain team or 2. But, if you're a 49ers fan you could choose Stanford who's just down the road.
Cheers, my I offer you the Sun Belt Conference for a few reasons.
1. Most of the teams in the conference are near the east coast, thus you will be able to actually watch some of the games live due to the time difference.
2. Most of the games are available through streaming services. Again, you can actually watch the games real time or after the fact.
3. Sun Belt = Fun Belt
4. Due to the geographical closeness of the schools in the Sun Belt there are many heated rivalries and almost every game comes down to the 4th quarter.
5. The Sun Belt plays a good amount of the Power 5 schools every year and everyone loves an underdog.
In general, I would also recommend the Sun Belt for someone looking for a team. IMO, the most fun you can have as a CFB fan is to be a fan of a G5 team that is on the rise. And I say that as someone who has been a fan of both a dominant team (Miami in the 80s) and a G5 team on the rise (UCF in the 10s).
The Sun Belt features a good mix of teams who have somewhat recently made the jump from FCS to FBS and teams who are trying to establish themselves after being in FBS for awhile. If someone is trying to find a G5 team on the rise, the Sun Belt is probably the best conference to find that in. (The AAC newcomers would also be good choices for this.)
But for fucks sake, don’t choose to be a fan of Georgia Southern. They are a cult that bathes in a drainage ditch, lives in a gnat infested campus, and worships a dead bald lunatic.
Watch college gameday on Saturdays & listen to some cfb centric YouTube channels like on3 or Josh pate to help fill you in on some of the details for each team. If you really want to be a sicko read Phil Steele’s college football preview, which is basically an encyclopedia for every D1 CFB program
Chose a team that you like the colors or vibe of and follow them, then watch the big game each week with the top teams along with your teams game and talk about how your team could totally beat the top dogs.
Suggestions from the P5 conferences:
SEC: Texas A&M, Arkansas, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi State
ACC: North Carolina, Louisville, Duke
PAC: Washington, Oregon State, Utah, Stanford
B1G: Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan State, Penn State
XII: Texas Tech, UCF, Kansas State, Oklahoma State
Assorted G5: Boise State, Air Force, Fresno State, James Madison, App State, Marshall, SMU, Coastal Carolina, Nevada, UConn
I would pick one conference and watch as many of their games as you can. You'll get a good idea of what the teams are like, the atmosphere, the whole deal.
I would recommend either watching the SEC or Big 10, you can choose. Obviously I think the SEC is the best, but it's all subjective.
https://youtu.be/jjYt7lmY5cs
I'd say it's all a matter of style preference. In general I'd say sec fans are the most committed to cfb, but you also have small pockets in other parts of the U.S that are just as fanatical like Ohio and Michigan teams always have a very strong fan community.
Penn State is another one. They're lunatics like us in Athens. I think Oregon is on the up and up right now.
I'd say ND usually has very committed fans. My advice is don't pick a fair weather fandom that only cares about cfb as long as they're winning.
As a lifelong Georgia fan, I'd say I've always loved good defense and a good run game. So Georgia meshes well if you appreciate that aspect about football.
I love a good trench warfare down and dirty slug fest. So you get lineman being just as popular or more so than skill position offensive players.
At the first Natty ceremony after beating Bama, people went absolutely nuts cheering for the big boys and defensive players.
We're currently in a golden era for the Dawgs.
And after so many years of 1980 jokes its pretty fun right now as a fan. But of course ima pump up my team.
In comparison to the NFL, CFB is heavily based on culture and tradition. Have you been to the States? If so, where did you like most? Any geographical region you have family members/friends in?
What sort of culture do you want in a team? A big city team like Arsenal? A college town team in farmland? A small town in the mountains?
College football is structured a lot like European football. The EPL is like the SEC or B1G. The playoff is a lot like the champions league. Some conferences just get more teams in because they are bigger and better.
As an American who got into watching the Premier League back in about 08-09, one thing that got me into it was figuring out which of the top teams I didnt like and wanted to root against, and then found the teams that were their rivals and rooted for them.
At the time, Manchester United was a force to be reckoned with with Sir Alex creating a dynasty there. So naturally I hated them (with all due respect, they were so good), and I basically rooted for the top teams apart from them (Arsenal, Chelsea at the time mostly). But I figured I should root for Man City because at the time they were just the "noisy neighbors" and a natural rival to Man U. Never thought things would turn how they have with Man City being the team to hate and destroying the competition, but thats besides the point.
So for me, it was about finding the team I really wanted to lose and then rooting for their rivals. That got me "invested" in a sense to watch, other than enjoying the sport in general of course.
So lets say you take teams like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, etc and find one to root *against*, and go from there maybe. Or find one you like for any reason and then go from there instead. Idk.
If you are a big soccer fan the best way I can describe it is, and since the season is so short, treat every weekend like it is a promotion or relegation playoff because there is no telling which weekend might have the craziest results or moments. You can certainly find a team you like but I’d suggest not being too hasty in finding a team. Learn about the conferences and teams first and then look up the histories of teams. Once you familiarize yourself with the conferences and teams, simply sit down and let the craziness that is college football inevitably reel you in.
Also: if you decide to you’d like to find a favorite team, don’t pick an orange team.
I would say choose a team to follow and then also maybe check out some of the big games each week.
As for how to choose a team, a lot of people will tell you to choose their team to follow. I think the best way to choose a team is to figure out what kind of team you want to be a fan of. Do you prefer an underdog or a dominant team or something in the middle? Is there a particular US state that resonates with you? Do you want to follow an established power, a solidly consistent team, or a team with a lot of potential that could be due for a big rise in the next few years.
Regardless of what you like, there's certainly going to be at least one team that will fit that.
It really depends on the type of middling you want. There are former powerhouses in slumps, underdogs moving to new conferences, and perennial average teams. Which of those sounds most interesting and we can go from there!
As a biased fan, I’m always gonna tell you to pick LSU, but we are usually a strong team and won a championship a few years ago.
Tennessee vols has an insane fan base and they are finally getting back to being good again after 20 years of mediocrity. Last year they beat Alabama and the fans tore down the goal posts and threw them in the river. There’s so many good teams to root for though but it’s fun to learn about all the different rivalries and whatnot
College football teams are like picking a soccer team, just watch a bunch of games and the, suddenly, you fall in love with one.
Just not Northwestern for the time being
If you’re a fan of arsenal currently - good historic team that dipped for a few years but is now challenging for a title - then Michigan might be a good call
If you’re a fan of arsenal a few years ago - good historically but pretty crap now then I’d suggest Nebraska (plus both red and white)
Or if you don’t want to be a lil bitch, you choose MSU. Who tf likes yellow? When has yellow ever done anything for humanity, and I won’t accept the sun as an answer.
If you’re British, why not choose Pure Michigan? We weren’t even involved in the revolution. If it was up to us over here in Lansing we’d all still be speaking British. Why pick MSU? There isn’t even a need for cultural assimilation. Why root for some fucking wolf thing that might be extinct for all I know, don’t have those in Europe. What do you have in Europe? Spartans. And my final question point, Jim Harbaugh. Man made a conscious decision at one point in his life to act cool and stopped going by Jimmy. Fuck you, Jim
Are you an Arsenal fan because you’re from London? Or because they’re regularly one of the top teams in the Premiership? Or because you like the colors/kit? Or because you had a favorite player who played there?
Got it. Well, USC is a good team from a large metropolitan city with a similar color scheme to Arsenal, so there are some similarities there. They’ll be joining the Big Ten next year so that’ll be different and might be worth following.
Go to one of the many YouTube channels that clip up college football games each weekend, eg MatthewLovesBall or Victor's Valiant and just watch games. Have no stakes initially, but be drawn in by style of play or a qb or a defense etc.
I found my team Texas Tech as they played a style of football that is fun to watch 10 years ago despite the fact I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan originally. But I will still regularly watch highlights from the Sun Belt conference because a lot of the teams play interesting offensive styles.
Be prepared though, once you dive into college football you nay find your NFL fandom wane. It's just so much better and more fun!
Do you have any ties to any American university? Or friends who went to one? Or a desire to visit one?
I would honestly rather follow a school I had deep ties to...or at least SOME ties to...even if they weren't top programs.
I mean, my flairs do not attract many fans who don't have a connection to the schools. (At least not for their American football programs...hoops, hockey..maybe.) But I can't imagine cheering for anyone else, as fucking painful as my own schools can be on the gridiron. Fingers crossed that the Illini are entering an era of decent play, but they'll never be Bama.
Then again, I'm also a Spurs fan, so maybe I'm attracted to pain.
BT sports usually has 1/2 games on in each time interval (5-8.30, 8.30-1am, 1am -4.30) sky has Notre Dame home games usually as well
Some times they don’t have the games you want as it does lean a bit SEC but there’s usually something worth watching.
To get into it I’d advise watching rivalry games when they are on as for some reason they seem to be crazy.
Yours is an interesting question! Obviously we are all going to be biased. Lol So, of course I’ll advocate for Oklahoma University. I think OU checks a lot of boxes- historic success (including the record for most consecutive wins), dynamic characters (Barry Switzer, Bob Stoops, and even BV is a pretty interesting dude), currently in an incredibly tumultuous period (the saga of one coach leaving as the villain, a new coach arriving with a heroes welcome, an awful season last year including an abysmal loss to our biggest rival, and the excited expectation that OU must return to the standard, all while preparing to move to the SEC along with our biggest rival), the annual Red River Shootout with Texas (such an awesome rivalry game that even Desmond Howard said he’d never seen anything like it), and finally we have the Sooner Schooner! Ha! Seriously though, if you want tradition, excitement, and intrigue then OU has it all.
BOOMER!
OU Legends swapping stories
https://youtu.be/0QTmWCzpWFU
Biased answers:
1. Georgia: devoted fan base, top team
2. Florida State: was top in the 90s and early 2000s, fell off hard, but after a series of bad coaches and poor recruiting we’re on the rise
Unbiased answer:
Consider why you like your premier league team, then look for teams with those qualities in cfb
Don't pick a team yet. Watch a few of the best games each Saturday, and by the end of the season, you'll end up rooting for a team naturally. If you're in London, being a fan of an ACC, SEC, or B1G school is probably easiest since you'll be able to watch the games.
The best way to follow it is to read /r/cfb during the season :)
Who should you root for? I usually give this advice to interested Europeans:
* Choose a team located in the eastern time zone; they are more likely to play noon games, which means you can watch live at night in Europe.
* Choose a middling team; it's much more fun to root for a team where every game is interesting and competitive. I think neither Alabama nor Rutgers would be fun to adopt for an unaffiliated fan.
* Choose a team with interesting history and traditions! CFB is all about pageantry and tradition (relative to the NFL).
With those criteria, consider: Florida (biased), Purdue, Maryland, Tennessee, one of the Carolina schools, maybe Penn State, etc. Michigan State really fits the criteria but I cannot in good conscience recommend becoming an MSU fan.
If you watch some games and read enough CFB banter, it will come to you! ... just pick anything but Ohio State.
Can I ask why you'd want to?
I get that for my perspective it's good for the game to grow and find new fans, but I cannot for the life of me understand why you'd want to find another harder-to-consume sport. It's a pain in the arse to find streams or channels for sports across the Atlantic.
And I get maybe you'd want to watch more Notre Dame games if you're going to their game in Ireland next month, but for me personally, I was in Prague during West Ham's championship week and I had fun, but I'm probably not going to search out more of their games.
I’m just a big fan of American football and always just want to watch more. Saturdays are always boring for me and my mates without nfl on so want to fill that day with more football
Follow teams like Tennessee, OU, USC, or teams like that. Basically, teams who have an explosive offense combined with a shitty defense because that style of football is the most entertaining to watch imo.
Honestly, if it wasn't for ties to my schools, I wouldn't watch college football. In British terms, the quality of play compared to the NFL is like comparing League Two to the Premier League, except there's no relegation.
As an American and a big follower of League Two (Crawley Town) I could not disagree more here.
Premier league (and NFL) games are either blow outs or won/lost by a single error. On the other hand college games or League Two have more opportunity for excitement because you never know what is going to happen.
You're never going to know what happens, because the talent level is just a mix of abilities. Some of the players are former Premiere players, and some will be, one day. But the level of play is not the same as at the top level, because the weaknesses are easily exploited.
The blowouts in college ball aren't because the athletic talent of the winner is comparable to the NFL. There may be a couple players who will be there in a year or two, but the talent of the loser is just that bad, in many instances. Almost all of the players in the highest level of college football have reached their peak level, and that's what you get, in terms of watching the product.
So I have a hard time figuring out why anyone with no emotional ties to a team on that level would want to watch it. I did find the USFL to be rather entertaining. But there we have that mix of old and new talent transitioning through these teams. The league MVP is a NFL has been who is also maybe now a future NFL player. It's easy to root for that kind of story.
If you really want to be a college fan, you need to choose a school and just follow it. Get in on the forums. Talk smack to teams that regularly beat yours. Watch all the glory and all the heartbreak. Immersion is all I can really suggest. Who you pick is up to you. Maybe you have good friends with their own loyalties, and you can glom onto their teams.
During the COVID seasons, it was very hard to watch CFB games, whereas there was very little to no difference watching NFL games.
That’s not necessarily a compliment to the NFL.
Yes, the quality of play is vastly superior (again, very evident during the COVID year), but it’s such a sterile product.
SEC is the Premier League of CFP, everyone else is just Welsh, Scottish and Irish football. If you want to watch the best athletes with the most passionate teams, watch the SEC.
If you get/have ESPN+ you can follow all of the FCS. Which is very aptly/ironically the Championship level of college football to compare it to association football. We also have our own sub at r/FCS you should check out!
> there’s so much to watch each weekend
isn’t it great?! but for starters you could try the B1G noon game since it’s easiest to watch live on your schedule, the SEC tends to have their big game at 2:30 central (so what 20:30 over there about?) and if you really dig it ABC/ESPN has their game of the week around 7 central.
Three things I would do:
* Check the weekly schedule for Top 25 matchups. Early season top 25 games can be a toss up if it's competitive, but as the season goes on, the rankings become more accurate more or less. A game between the #7 and the #12 teams can end up being a really entertaining and meaningful.
* Take a look at the point spreads and totals every new week. If you've got a close spread it's more likely to be a good competitive game. And if you're someone who likes offense, a higher total should be more likely to be a shootout. The average point total in CFB is 52 or so. But it's not super rare to see point totals in the high 60s / low 70s.
* Once we're in to conference play, keep track of team's records. Even for a lower tier conference like the Mountain West or Sun Belt, if you've got two teams who are 7-0 playing each other, that should make for an entertaining game. The best part of college football is seeing the tradition and flair, at each level. Sometimes a game like Boise State and San Diego State can be as entertaining as a Power 5 game if there's a lot at stake for the teams.
I think watching organically will help you find which team you're a fan of, which conference you find the most entertaining, and which teams/players/coaches you can't stand.
There’s a lot of really good suggestions in here on how to go about this in a thorough and meaningful way but I’m going to make it easy for you. Just cheer for Tennessee! We’re the best
If you follow 49ers, you can just follow Jim Harbaugh.
College football is full of tradition and rivals that NFL lacks. In some case, a single rivalry game is more important than all other games combined to their fans, such as Michigan vs Ohio State. The game, as called by the fans, is always played during the last week of the regular season in late November and is often the most watched regular season game on TV and has national championship implications.
You might find some pubs in London where American expatriate Michigan fans gather to watch the game and other games during the season.
https://gamewatch.info/teams/michigan-wolverines/cities/london-england-united-kingdom
Hop on the Texas bandwagon before we show out this year. People have been ragging on us for over a decade but this team "should" be good? Good news is that you can find our merch everywhere and its very recognizable.
Cheer for UCF we are like that one time leicester city won it all. The underdogs that should not have been anything to worry about until we win a big trophy and another and have been doing very good for the past few seasons that they even called us up. Plus Leicester City is a fox and I like da fox.
Honestly, the only/best way to get into college football is to go to a college and suddenly have a team that you are associated with.
If that’s not possible, I would say, read up on the preseason predictions, try to make some predictions of your own, then follow the season as a whole. Watch as the “experts“ get blown up week after week. Yeah, the preseason favorites will most likely end near the top at the end of the season. But the absolute insanity that will occur before then should blow a head gasket. Do that a couple of times, and eventually you will come to love the personality and character of a specific team.
Just seen ESPN player that I watched college football on here in the UK has been cancelled which is rubbish. No idea if BT sport will show it this year-I read it wasn't on any schedules so may be hard to watch college football over here unless there are any other options?
Follow your starting QBs college team. (Or dont, you'll hate your life)
Yeah North Dakota State has a proud tradition
Buddy let us one have fucking cool thing man
Zeb Noland
I’m not your buddy, pal!
College football is a lot like the premier league. Very tiered even within the top division. A small predictable pool of teams that have the resources to make a run and very little parity measures (unlike the NFL). What makes it magical are the local fandoms and the communities surrounding these teams (online and in-person), like the really local teams in the UK. Pick a fandom you relate to or enjoy because they don't change. It can be some provincial school that loses its mind every time they beat their rival, despite only having 4 wins. It can be one of the big boys that pack 100,000 capacity stadiums and expect to win the conference every year. And everything in between.
This is the best analogy and best advice to a UK resident. People hate on US soccer because it's not the same vibe as UK soccer. But we already have UK soccer, it's called CFB. Some fandoms are only happy if they win it all, and are terribly angered/depressed otherwise. Other Fandoms are euphorically satiated for decades on a single magical season/game. (Like a top premiere team expected to win vs a 3rd tier clubs magical cup run) Regardless of where each Fandom falls in the tiers, We all live for Fall Saturdays. OP, don't focus on picking a "team". Pick a region you think you'd best relate to, maybe one you could see yourself visiting one day. Then, in that region, focus on what experience you'd like from there: Powerhouse, mid-tier P5, or G5.
the reason I got into CFB so much is because it's the closest I can get to Premier League vibes in America. I just wish we had their quality of crowd chants, but everything else is good.
Alternatively, CFB can be the entire top four tiers of the English league. The ranked guys is PL The rest of P5 and G5 is the championship And down in league 1 you have crazy stuff like MACtion And then the small local conferences are like league 2
MACtion is still G5
I disagree, think it looks more like this: It’s more like big, historical programs are the PL, the Big 6 (Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Tottenham, and Chelsea) being Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC, Michigan, and Oklahoma (Oklahoma this year being like this years Chelsea, both disappointing). The rest of the PL would be big-time P5s so like Texas, Texas A&M, Florida, UCLA, Penn State, etc. Championship would be lower P5 so your Oregon State, Washington State, Syracuse type deal. League One would be High tier G5 so San Diego State, Fresno State, UTSA, FAU, and Memphis. League Two would be the rest of G5 and high-tier FCS so like Akron, NDSU, and SDSU. Rest of FCS would be National League. D2 is National League North/South. D3 is Sunday League.
https://cfb.guide/ The top rows under each date with channels like ABC/ESPN/CBS/Fox or the games with teams with numbers next to their names are the "big games" usually.
Does this site auto update for the upcoming week?
Yeah usually on Sunday or Monday
Fellow Brit Games are on BT Sports. Record your teams and the show after, because most games run over. And make sure to record multi airings of College Football Final, which rounds up the week, because they regularly swap it out for highlights from other sports without changing the published schedule As for teams, find out which team your favourite players are from, then fellow them, eg: Patrick Mahomes = Texas Tech, CMC = Stanford, OBJ = LSU, JJ Watt = Wisconsin, Jalen Ramsey = Florida state. The Rock uaed to play for Miami too before he was a wrestler. Or, watch a college football movie to see if one clicks, eg: Rudy = ND, The Express = Syracuse, Safety = Clemson, We are Marshall = Marshall, and Forrest Gump = Alabama kinda. Alternatively, their are religious affiliations. ND and Boston College = Catholic, BYU = Mormon, Liberty = Evangelical, Syracuse = Presbytarian, Baylor = Baptist Additionally, there is style of play. Some do it better than others, and some will have new innovations with new coaches, but generally... Offensive led: USC, Oklahoma, Oregon, Florida State, Texas, etc Defensive led: Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Miami, etc Finally, there are tiers. Blue Blood: ND, Alabama, USC, tOSU, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, possible Miami Edit: Also, you can buy a Notre Dame season pass directly from NBC Sports International. I'm suprised the Big Ten Network and SEC Network don't offer something similar TBH.
As a Brit myself I did this and caught the Prayer at Jordan Hare and the kick 6 in back to back games on BT and now I'm stuck being an Auburn fan. Nobody warned me it wouldn't always be like those games....
Reminds me of: SEC Shorts - Are you brave enough to ride the Auburn Fan Experience? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3eEYU6kLc
Haha what kind of idiot would be an Auburn fan without having gone to school there… Wait a minute.
Fewer than your friends out west on US-80 that’s for sure
Both parents went there so I get a free pass anyways. But definitely way less of us.
Wait, is this play about us?
Kick 6 is arguably the greatest play in CFB history. I'd fucked off to brew a coffee, thinking either he doesn't make it and it's over, or he does and it's OT. Came back to see the scenes, I couldn't believe I'd missed it live.
>Defensive led: Nebraska I appreciate your optimism!
When the Boneyard become bien yards
Miami is not a blueblood
I’m not offended when we aren’t included but I’m irate, flabbergasted, and gobsmacked that they would include Miami over us
You forgot The Waterboy = South Central Louisiana State
Or the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas = Shirtless A&M players in boots dancing in the locker room
Miami is absolutely not a blue blood.
Left out Everybody’s All-American - LSU
Good shout.
> Forrest Gump = Alabama kinda. Love this shoutout. Love this part of the movie.
In the book, Alabama plays Nebraska. For the national championship. Nebraska won.
Lmao I didnt know that. I know the book is vastly different in many ways, but never read it.
How dare you leave Tennessee out of the offensive teams - watch one game and I guarantee you’ll be offended
Minor note: Syracuse has Methodist roots, Presbyterian schools tend to be really small for some reason
Thanks for the correction. I assumed Presbetarian due to the Orangemen connection.
Ahh not a bad assumption, there is a Dutch connection but it’s for the initial colonization of New York by the Netherlands, but I think even that was backfilling a story for why they had already chosen Orange
I think the best way for a casual viewer to start following along more closely would be to watch out for games that are expected to be close. This sub shares a few lists each week highlighting the "best" games to watch for the upcoming weekend. These lists don't exclusively highlight the highest ranked teams, but instead focus on which games *should* be exciting and fun to watch. These lists will narrow down your personal "must watch" list to something more manageable, and you'll avoid the 65-3 blowouts. After a few weeks of that, you should have enough exposure to pick up on differences in schools' traditions, follow national storylines for the season, and get a feel for which team(s) might be your favorite to follow.
Also, the "Sickos Game of the Week" can be tremendously useful. You know what bad soccer looks like, but I can promise bad-CFB is a wonderful treat (and will help you understand the weird peculiarities of college v. NFL).
Sickos Games will answer questions about the sport you never even knew you had. Questions like "what happens if you cross the line of scrimmage before you punt the ball". Important questions.
Sickos Game of the Week is perfect for the CONCACAF enjoyers of the world
If you’re still in the U.K. then Sky will probably show nbc games so a big 10 team or Notre Dame will be easiest to watch
And Notre Dame will be playing Navy in Dublin on August 26th for a game closer to home, might be a good place to start
I'm in the UK and am going to that game!
The only teams you shouldn't root for are Alabama, Florida, and anyone playing LSU.
I agree with all those teams listed, but I think Auburn, Georgia Tech, and Albany State should be added.
>Florida Yeah! Fuck those guys >and anyone playing LSU Hey hold up
I agree with you, well with the first two anyway
Go Noles!
The fuck are your flairs bro
Born in Louisiana, have family that went to LSU, but lived in Arkansas a long time.
I can (mostly) get on board with this
Throw in Clemson on that list for good measure.
2019 showed who was the superior Tigers team that plays in Death Valley.
Watch some games, decide which team you hate the most. The one that watching them makes you physically sick to your stomach. That’s the team you are a true fan of.
My God he’s right
IMHO, College football is better than the NFL. I like both, but college is more passionate. If I were you I'd pick a college team and give it a full season. Follow the team closely, read their websites and participate on the message boards (like this one) and you'll become part of the community. And after the season is over you may want to plan a trip to see a game next season in person.
College football is better when it comes to fandom and tradition imo. NFL is better when it comes to parity. CFB is kind of top heavy in that regard.
Well since it's the offseason at the moment, I'd recommend listening to some podcasts to get your feet wet and to get some general knowledge about what's going on in the sport. My 2 go to podcasts are The Late Kick with Josh Pate and the Cover 3 podcast. There's also plenty of season preview magazines that you could buy and read on your phone or tablet, my personal favorite is Phil Steele. Once the season starts in a little over a month, just watch as many games as you can. I don't know how many college football games are shown in the UK, if any at all. But if you're committed to watching, I recommend downloading a VPN(if you haven't already to watch the Niners) and signing up for a streaming service, YouTubeTV and Hulu Live are both good options, they'll give you a lot of channels that show CFB games. If you're worried about who to root for, I wouldn't worry about that until the season starts. Just watch as many different teams as you can and after a while you'll most likely find yourself gravitating towards a certain team or 2. But, if you're a 49ers fan you could choose Stanford who's just down the road.
YTTV is definitely getting ready for college football with the Multiview and I’m so hyped
My philosophy is to Pick 2 teams. South Carolina and whoever is playing Clemson.
This is the way. Now is a good time for OP to hop on the Shane Train as well. If he gets on now, he can claim he isn't a fair weather fan.
Cheers, my I offer you the Sun Belt Conference for a few reasons. 1. Most of the teams in the conference are near the east coast, thus you will be able to actually watch some of the games live due to the time difference. 2. Most of the games are available through streaming services. Again, you can actually watch the games real time or after the fact. 3. Sun Belt = Fun Belt 4. Due to the geographical closeness of the schools in the Sun Belt there are many heated rivalries and almost every game comes down to the 4th quarter. 5. The Sun Belt plays a good amount of the Power 5 schools every year and everyone loves an underdog.
In general, I would also recommend the Sun Belt for someone looking for a team. IMO, the most fun you can have as a CFB fan is to be a fan of a G5 team that is on the rise. And I say that as someone who has been a fan of both a dominant team (Miami in the 80s) and a G5 team on the rise (UCF in the 10s). The Sun Belt features a good mix of teams who have somewhat recently made the jump from FCS to FBS and teams who are trying to establish themselves after being in FBS for awhile. If someone is trying to find a G5 team on the rise, the Sun Belt is probably the best conference to find that in. (The AAC newcomers would also be good choices for this.)
Ok thanks, the sun belt defo sounds like an interesting conference
But for fucks sake, don’t choose to be a fan of Georgia Southern. They are a cult that bathes in a drainage ditch, lives in a gnat infested campus, and worships a dead bald lunatic.
Watch college gameday on Saturdays & listen to some cfb centric YouTube channels like on3 or Josh pate to help fill you in on some of the details for each team. If you really want to be a sicko read Phil Steele’s college football preview, which is basically an encyclopedia for every D1 CFB program
Causal fans should watch the big games and eventually you will fall in love with the pageantry.
Chose a team that you like the colors or vibe of and follow them, then watch the big game each week with the top teams along with your teams game and talk about how your team could totally beat the top dogs. Suggestions from the P5 conferences: SEC: Texas A&M, Arkansas, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi State ACC: North Carolina, Louisville, Duke PAC: Washington, Oregon State, Utah, Stanford B1G: Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan State, Penn State XII: Texas Tech, UCF, Kansas State, Oklahoma State Assorted G5: Boise State, Air Force, Fresno State, James Madison, App State, Marshall, SMU, Coastal Carolina, Nevada, UConn
I would pick one conference and watch as many of their games as you can. You'll get a good idea of what the teams are like, the atmosphere, the whole deal. I would recommend either watching the SEC or Big 10, you can choose. Obviously I think the SEC is the best, but it's all subjective.
https://youtu.be/jjYt7lmY5cs I'd say it's all a matter of style preference. In general I'd say sec fans are the most committed to cfb, but you also have small pockets in other parts of the U.S that are just as fanatical like Ohio and Michigan teams always have a very strong fan community. Penn State is another one. They're lunatics like us in Athens. I think Oregon is on the up and up right now. I'd say ND usually has very committed fans. My advice is don't pick a fair weather fandom that only cares about cfb as long as they're winning. As a lifelong Georgia fan, I'd say I've always loved good defense and a good run game. So Georgia meshes well if you appreciate that aspect about football. I love a good trench warfare down and dirty slug fest. So you get lineman being just as popular or more so than skill position offensive players. At the first Natty ceremony after beating Bama, people went absolutely nuts cheering for the big boys and defensive players. We're currently in a golden era for the Dawgs. And after so many years of 1980 jokes its pretty fun right now as a fan. But of course ima pump up my team.
In comparison to the NFL, CFB is heavily based on culture and tradition. Have you been to the States? If so, where did you like most? Any geographical region you have family members/friends in? What sort of culture do you want in a team? A big city team like Arsenal? A college town team in farmland? A small town in the mountains?
College football is structured a lot like European football. The EPL is like the SEC or B1G. The playoff is a lot like the champions league. Some conferences just get more teams in because they are bigger and better.
As an American who got into watching the Premier League back in about 08-09, one thing that got me into it was figuring out which of the top teams I didnt like and wanted to root against, and then found the teams that were their rivals and rooted for them. At the time, Manchester United was a force to be reckoned with with Sir Alex creating a dynasty there. So naturally I hated them (with all due respect, they were so good), and I basically rooted for the top teams apart from them (Arsenal, Chelsea at the time mostly). But I figured I should root for Man City because at the time they were just the "noisy neighbors" and a natural rival to Man U. Never thought things would turn how they have with Man City being the team to hate and destroying the competition, but thats besides the point. So for me, it was about finding the team I really wanted to lose and then rooting for their rivals. That got me "invested" in a sense to watch, other than enjoying the sport in general of course. So lets say you take teams like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, etc and find one to root *against*, and go from there maybe. Or find one you like for any reason and then go from there instead. Idk.
If you are a big soccer fan the best way I can describe it is, and since the season is so short, treat every weekend like it is a promotion or relegation playoff because there is no telling which weekend might have the craziest results or moments. You can certainly find a team you like but I’d suggest not being too hasty in finding a team. Learn about the conferences and teams first and then look up the histories of teams. Once you familiarize yourself with the conferences and teams, simply sit down and let the craziness that is college football inevitably reel you in. Also: if you decide to you’d like to find a favorite team, don’t pick an orange team.
I would say choose a team to follow and then also maybe check out some of the big games each week. As for how to choose a team, a lot of people will tell you to choose their team to follow. I think the best way to choose a team is to figure out what kind of team you want to be a fan of. Do you prefer an underdog or a dominant team or something in the middle? Is there a particular US state that resonates with you? Do you want to follow an established power, a solidly consistent team, or a team with a lot of potential that could be due for a big rise in the next few years. Regardless of what you like, there's certainly going to be at least one team that will fit that.
Just make sure that the school isn't geographically challenged like the cows from west Florida
Thanks, I’ll probably try and find a middling team as want to see some wins, but don’t just wanna watch a blowout each week
It really depends on the type of middling you want. There are former powerhouses in slumps, underdogs moving to new conferences, and perennial average teams. Which of those sounds most interesting and we can go from there! As a biased fan, I’m always gonna tell you to pick LSU, but we are usually a strong team and won a championship a few years ago.
Tennessee vols has an insane fan base and they are finally getting back to being good again after 20 years of mediocrity. Last year they beat Alabama and the fans tore down the goal posts and threw them in the river. There’s so many good teams to root for though but it’s fun to learn about all the different rivalries and whatnot
Either choose just one team, or pick a team for each fbs conference. You'll have 10 teams then haha.
College football teams are like picking a soccer team, just watch a bunch of games and the, suddenly, you fall in love with one. Just not Northwestern for the time being
I’m a big Arsenal fan
I think Michigan is a pretty good parallel for the Arsenal, as it were.
The fing about Michigan is
[they always try to run it in](https://youtu.be/9FrCmhTRbhI?t=330)
If you’re a fan of arsenal currently - good historic team that dipped for a few years but is now challenging for a title - then Michigan might be a good call If you’re a fan of arsenal a few years ago - good historically but pretty crap now then I’d suggest Nebraska (plus both red and white)
Or if you don’t want to be a lil bitch, you choose MSU. Who tf likes yellow? When has yellow ever done anything for humanity, and I won’t accept the sun as an answer. If you’re British, why not choose Pure Michigan? We weren’t even involved in the revolution. If it was up to us over here in Lansing we’d all still be speaking British. Why pick MSU? There isn’t even a need for cultural assimilation. Why root for some fucking wolf thing that might be extinct for all I know, don’t have those in Europe. What do you have in Europe? Spartans. And my final question point, Jim Harbaugh. Man made a conscious decision at one point in his life to act cool and stopped going by Jimmy. Fuck you, Jim
Are you an Arsenal fan because you’re from London? Or because they’re regularly one of the top teams in the Premiership? Or because you like the colors/kit? Or because you had a favorite player who played there?
From london
Got it. Well, USC is a good team from a large metropolitan city with a similar color scheme to Arsenal, so there are some similarities there. They’ll be joining the Big Ten next year so that’ll be different and might be worth following.
Go to one of the many YouTube channels that clip up college football games each weekend, eg MatthewLovesBall or Victor's Valiant and just watch games. Have no stakes initially, but be drawn in by style of play or a qb or a defense etc. I found my team Texas Tech as they played a style of football that is fun to watch 10 years ago despite the fact I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan originally. But I will still regularly watch highlights from the Sun Belt conference because a lot of the teams play interesting offensive styles. Be prepared though, once you dive into college football you nay find your NFL fandom wane. It's just so much better and more fun!
Do you have any ties to any American university? Or friends who went to one? Or a desire to visit one? I would honestly rather follow a school I had deep ties to...or at least SOME ties to...even if they weren't top programs. I mean, my flairs do not attract many fans who don't have a connection to the schools. (At least not for their American football programs...hoops, hockey..maybe.) But I can't imagine cheering for anyone else, as fucking painful as my own schools can be on the gridiron. Fingers crossed that the Illini are entering an era of decent play, but they'll never be Bama. Then again, I'm also a Spurs fan, so maybe I'm attracted to pain.
Follow BYU. Guarantee there are more BYU alumni in the UK than almost any other US college
Michigan and ND have good representation too by that metric.
BT sports usually has 1/2 games on in each time interval (5-8.30, 8.30-1am, 1am -4.30) sky has Notre Dame home games usually as well Some times they don’t have the games you want as it does lean a bit SEC but there’s usually something worth watching. To get into it I’d advise watching rivalry games when they are on as for some reason they seem to be crazy.
Yours is an interesting question! Obviously we are all going to be biased. Lol So, of course I’ll advocate for Oklahoma University. I think OU checks a lot of boxes- historic success (including the record for most consecutive wins), dynamic characters (Barry Switzer, Bob Stoops, and even BV is a pretty interesting dude), currently in an incredibly tumultuous period (the saga of one coach leaving as the villain, a new coach arriving with a heroes welcome, an awful season last year including an abysmal loss to our biggest rival, and the excited expectation that OU must return to the standard, all while preparing to move to the SEC along with our biggest rival), the annual Red River Shootout with Texas (such an awesome rivalry game that even Desmond Howard said he’d never seen anything like it), and finally we have the Sooner Schooner! Ha! Seriously though, if you want tradition, excitement, and intrigue then OU has it all. BOOMER! OU Legends swapping stories https://youtu.be/0QTmWCzpWFU
Didn't see this until after the edit. 1st Welcome to the club! 2nd Screw Blue, Go Bucks!
Committing to Michigan? You're dead to me
Biased answers: 1. Georgia: devoted fan base, top team 2. Florida State: was top in the 90s and early 2000s, fell off hard, but after a series of bad coaches and poor recruiting we’re on the rise Unbiased answer: Consider why you like your premier league team, then look for teams with those qualities in cfb
Don't pick a team yet. Watch a few of the best games each Saturday, and by the end of the season, you'll end up rooting for a team naturally. If you're in London, being a fan of an ACC, SEC, or B1G school is probably easiest since you'll be able to watch the games.
The best way to follow it is to read /r/cfb during the season :) Who should you root for? I usually give this advice to interested Europeans: * Choose a team located in the eastern time zone; they are more likely to play noon games, which means you can watch live at night in Europe. * Choose a middling team; it's much more fun to root for a team where every game is interesting and competitive. I think neither Alabama nor Rutgers would be fun to adopt for an unaffiliated fan. * Choose a team with interesting history and traditions! CFB is all about pageantry and tradition (relative to the NFL). With those criteria, consider: Florida (biased), Purdue, Maryland, Tennessee, one of the Carolina schools, maybe Penn State, etc. Michigan State really fits the criteria but I cannot in good conscience recommend becoming an MSU fan. If you watch some games and read enough CFB banter, it will come to you! ... just pick anything but Ohio State.
Or Auburn, you’ll live a sick life of misery
Can I ask why you'd want to? I get that for my perspective it's good for the game to grow and find new fans, but I cannot for the life of me understand why you'd want to find another harder-to-consume sport. It's a pain in the arse to find streams or channels for sports across the Atlantic. And I get maybe you'd want to watch more Notre Dame games if you're going to their game in Ireland next month, but for me personally, I was in Prague during West Ham's championship week and I had fun, but I'm probably not going to search out more of their games.
I’m just a big fan of American football and always just want to watch more. Saturdays are always boring for me and my mates without nfl on so want to fill that day with more football
Follow teams like Tennessee, OU, USC, or teams like that. Basically, teams who have an explosive offense combined with a shitty defense because that style of football is the most entertaining to watch imo.
Honestly, if it wasn't for ties to my schools, I wouldn't watch college football. In British terms, the quality of play compared to the NFL is like comparing League Two to the Premier League, except there's no relegation.
As an American and a big follower of League Two (Crawley Town) I could not disagree more here. Premier league (and NFL) games are either blow outs or won/lost by a single error. On the other hand college games or League Two have more opportunity for excitement because you never know what is going to happen.
You're never going to know what happens, because the talent level is just a mix of abilities. Some of the players are former Premiere players, and some will be, one day. But the level of play is not the same as at the top level, because the weaknesses are easily exploited. The blowouts in college ball aren't because the athletic talent of the winner is comparable to the NFL. There may be a couple players who will be there in a year or two, but the talent of the loser is just that bad, in many instances. Almost all of the players in the highest level of college football have reached their peak level, and that's what you get, in terms of watching the product. So I have a hard time figuring out why anyone with no emotional ties to a team on that level would want to watch it. I did find the USFL to be rather entertaining. But there we have that mix of old and new talent transitioning through these teams. The league MVP is a NFL has been who is also maybe now a future NFL player. It's easy to root for that kind of story. If you really want to be a college fan, you need to choose a school and just follow it. Get in on the forums. Talk smack to teams that regularly beat yours. Watch all the glory and all the heartbreak. Immersion is all I can really suggest. Who you pick is up to you. Maybe you have good friends with their own loyalties, and you can glom onto their teams.
During the COVID seasons, it was very hard to watch CFB games, whereas there was very little to no difference watching NFL games. That’s not necessarily a compliment to the NFL. Yes, the quality of play is vastly superior (again, very evident during the COVID year), but it’s such a sterile product.
Maybe just watch top 25 ranked matchups or pick a top 10 team(with at least a modicum of research) and follow them through a season.
SEC is the Premier League of CFP, everyone else is just Welsh, Scottish and Irish football. If you want to watch the best athletes with the most passionate teams, watch the SEC.
Especially if you’re pro-Brexit you’ll feel right at home
What's your EPL club team?
If you get/have ESPN+ you can follow all of the FCS. Which is very aptly/ironically the Championship level of college football to compare it to association football. We also have our own sub at r/FCS you should check out!
Pick a team you like (alma mater of an NFL player you like maybe) and start following them.
> there’s so much to watch each weekend isn’t it great?! but for starters you could try the B1G noon game since it’s easiest to watch live on your schedule, the SEC tends to have their big game at 2:30 central (so what 20:30 over there about?) and if you really dig it ABC/ESPN has their game of the week around 7 central.
Three things I would do: * Check the weekly schedule for Top 25 matchups. Early season top 25 games can be a toss up if it's competitive, but as the season goes on, the rankings become more accurate more or less. A game between the #7 and the #12 teams can end up being a really entertaining and meaningful. * Take a look at the point spreads and totals every new week. If you've got a close spread it's more likely to be a good competitive game. And if you're someone who likes offense, a higher total should be more likely to be a shootout. The average point total in CFB is 52 or so. But it's not super rare to see point totals in the high 60s / low 70s. * Once we're in to conference play, keep track of team's records. Even for a lower tier conference like the Mountain West or Sun Belt, if you've got two teams who are 7-0 playing each other, that should make for an entertaining game. The best part of college football is seeing the tradition and flair, at each level. Sometimes a game like Boise State and San Diego State can be as entertaining as a Power 5 game if there's a lot at stake for the teams. I think watching organically will help you find which team you're a fan of, which conference you find the most entertaining, and which teams/players/coaches you can't stand.
There’s a lot of really good suggestions in here on how to go about this in a thorough and meaningful way but I’m going to make it easy for you. Just cheer for Tennessee! We’re the best
If you follow 49ers, you can just follow Jim Harbaugh. College football is full of tradition and rivals that NFL lacks. In some case, a single rivalry game is more important than all other games combined to their fans, such as Michigan vs Ohio State. The game, as called by the fans, is always played during the last week of the regular season in late November and is often the most watched regular season game on TV and has national championship implications. You might find some pubs in London where American expatriate Michigan fans gather to watch the game and other games during the season. https://gamewatch.info/teams/michigan-wolverines/cities/london-england-united-kingdom
One option would be to support a college team local to your NFL team. Cal, Stanford or San Jose State would be good choices for a Niners fan.
Do you like bourbon? Being a Kentucky fan is really fun because you get to drown your sorrows with bourbon
Watch the top ranked teams every week, plus watch the ranked match ups. That’s where you’ll see the best college football
Hop on the Texas bandwagon before we show out this year. People have been ragging on us for over a decade but this team "should" be good? Good news is that you can find our merch everywhere and its very recognizable.
Cheer for UCF we are like that one time leicester city won it all. The underdogs that should not have been anything to worry about until we win a big trophy and another and have been doing very good for the past few seasons that they even called us up. Plus Leicester City is a fox and I like da fox.
Honestly, the only/best way to get into college football is to go to a college and suddenly have a team that you are associated with. If that’s not possible, I would say, read up on the preseason predictions, try to make some predictions of your own, then follow the season as a whole. Watch as the “experts“ get blown up week after week. Yeah, the preseason favorites will most likely end near the top at the end of the season. But the absolute insanity that will occur before then should blow a head gasket. Do that a couple of times, and eventually you will come to love the personality and character of a specific team.
Just seen ESPN player that I watched college football on here in the UK has been cancelled which is rubbish. No idea if BT sport will show it this year-I read it wasn't on any schedules so may be hard to watch college football over here unless there are any other options?