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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby Craig. » Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:56 pm

I think a lot of it comes down to personal attatchment. A lot of college football fans have either attended or have close ties to people who have attended the college or university they support. Then add in college tickets from what I have seen, are generally cheaper. Its not surprising.
Pro football teams charge stupid amounts for tickets, and outside of the original group of teams, they rarely sell out.
Jacksonville is actually a good example, they for the first time in a while actually sold out a home game last week against Denver. Why? Tim Tebow. The guy played all of 2 snaps, got 2 yards rushing and was the biggest reason for the ticket sales, he's the home town boy, and a big reason florida was such a great university team and that loyalty brought in the fans.
The other thing is the atmosphere in the stadiums. Some places in college, (Alabama, LSU, Florida, Texas Ohio State) I would hate to have to play in as a visiting team, you cant hear a thing on the field. Some NFL stadiums can be sellouts and yet they are virtually silent, (New England, San Diego,  Cinnci and so on) It just seems the NFL wants to discourage atmosphere.
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby BigTruck » Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:35 pm

Clemson is giving the "war eagle" a run for it's money, and Michigan State, a team I DO care about, is holding its own against the Irish so far.  Helluva weekend so far, need a Texas Tech win as well.  Not looking good so far but it's early.
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby WebbPA » Sat Sep 18, 2010 8:45 pm

Glad they told me.
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby BigTruck » Sat Sep 18, 2010 8:51 pm

LMAO
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby SeanTK » Sat Sep 18, 2010 8:57 pm

;D Don't you just love "experts"!

Average Penn State game here today against Kent State. We're still pretty sloppy, so we have a bit of work to do before we hit the reasonable opponents in the Big-10. We play Temple next week (another yawner probably, although Temple DID beat UConn....)

Also went to Penn State's Women's Volleyball game today. THAT was great! They achieved a 109 game winning streak before unfortunately losing a couple weeks ago. Don't fear our football team, fear our Women's Volleyball team!
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby BigTruck » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:04 pm



Also went to Penn State's Women's Volleyball game today. THAT was great! They achieved a 109 game winning streak before unfortunately losing a couple weeks ago.


I'm sure that's what you were paying attention to....being womens volleyball and all...
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby SeanTK » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:07 pm

Well I think it was volleyball......I remember women......
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby BigTruck » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:20 pm

[quote]Well I think it was volleyball......I remember women......
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby SeanTK » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:28 pm

Well that's quite a way to preemptively sort out any jealousy issues.
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby WebbPA » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:37 pm

Overtime!

Clemson 24
Auburn 24

Heck of a comeback but Auburn can't beat the 8 point spread.

Final

Clemson 24
Auburn 27
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby WebbPA » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:39 pm

Overtime!

Notre Dame 28
Michigan State 28

Spread:
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby BigTruck » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:54 pm

MICHIGAN STATE FAKES THE FIELD GOAL FOR A TD!!!!
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby WebbPA » Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:09 pm

Halftime

#9 Iowa 7
#24 Arizona 27

The desert will kill you.
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby tcco94 » Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:23 pm

^ Very suprised about that

Damn I wanted Texas Tech to win so bad  :(
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Re: The College Football Thread

Postby BigTruck » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:07 am

[quote]^ Very suprised about that

Damn I wanted Texas Tech to win so bad
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