by Cain Carpenter

Created on: July 29, 2009   Last Updated: July 30, 2009

While many people don't want to believe it the truth of the matter is that college football is overrated. There are those that will put college football on a pedestal and hold the game high above themselves and the realm of any other sport. The argument being that this is football in it's most pure form. The way that the game should be played and how everyone should enjoy the game. However the truth is much further from that notion than one would expect.

Easily the biggest argument for why college football is overrated is the scheduling factor. While there are good games every week, that's only a very small portion of games. A handful, maybe six or seven games a week are even close to being considered marquee. The rest are four plus touchdown blowouts that are over by the end of the second quarter. The gaps in talent over the years between upper level teams and lower level teams has narrowed, but it's not enough to make for interesting games all the time. In the NFL there are blowouts but on a whole games are more competitive over the course of the week. It's not near as easy to pick who will win between Pittsburgh and Indianapolis as it is between USC and Oregon State.

Another glaring factor for college football being overrated is the poor system they have implemented for deciding a national championship. Merely mention BCS and before you can even get to the S part you will have college football fans shuttering at the sound of it. A terrible way to decide who the national champion will be only adds to the disappointment of certain games and makes the game all that more overrated. If the presidents of the schools finally understand just how profitable a playoff system can be, they would be pleasantly surprised just how happy fans of the game would be and how many new fans they would attract that were turned off by the BCS. This is just a reality that is too far away from happening unfortunately.

College football does have it's merits, there is absolutely no doubt about that and the game is good to watch from time to time, depending on the teams. However there is no doubt that it's overrated and inferior to the NFL in so many so many ways. In time perhaps college football will mend its ways, but there is no reason for anyone to hold their breath on this.

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