Reasons why I stop watching college football

[NerdiestKen]

In this thread, I'm gonna give you my list of reasons why I stop watching college football on TV. You can also chime in on this, too.

1. Favortism
Everytime I watch either SportsCenter or College Gameday on ESPN, I hear the pundits on these shows express their favortism to these high profiled college football teams, they always pick the winners over the lesser-known teams to grab ahold of and monopolize the higher rankings to get some kind of exposure.

2. College Football Playoff system
Since 2014, the suits at NCAA found themselves a sure-fire way to make the sport of college football more exciting. The College Football Playoff system aka CFP. A tournament-style system where the top ranking teams compete each other until one team becomes national champion in the finals in January. To me, I just find this system a waste of time, because I don't see the meaning or revelancy of this. Back then, two of the best teams would just play a bowl game to determine which will be the national champion from there, and that's something everyone felt very comfortable with.

3. Manipulating the outcome of every game
Ever since these so-called gambling sites and sportbooks spreading like wildfire over 10 years ago, betting and gambling sites like OddsShark, Caesars Sportsbook and Draft Kings do everything they can to make sure the crooked gamblers and oddsmakers make a fortune by placing bets on teams in college football and other sports. When ESPN began this type of thing several years ago, they use these over/under point spreads and moneylines to determine which team is the favorite and the other is the underdog. Don't even get me started on some jerk named Stanford Steve and these betting segments, because I find all of this very dishonest amd immoral.

4. Conference realignments
Upon hearing the news about what's happening, NCAA has fix that is not even broken from the start. Teams leaving their flagship conferences since the beginning to join other conferences, people and viewers alike decide to quit following college football because of it's being about the money. Guess what? I'm one of those people who quit following college football and it's definetly all about the almighty dollar. I was an occasional college football watcher for a number of years, and I just find it very sad to hear that the organization praising themselves by causing this conference alignment circus to take place next year.

[Uncrowned]

You actually summed up most of my gripes with college football as well. Overall they just seem to be facing an identity crisis between trying to be a college sport and also trying to be a gambling fueled money making machine. Sadly I don't believe that is the best intentions for either the athletes or the sport.

Granted I always had some issues with college football, like the practice games where the major teams bring in essentially scapegoats to beat down every season. I know they say this is for motivation and makes the schools a lot of money, but it just seems absurd to me. I just picture like an MMA match where the heavyweight champion decides to fight some guy who just started training 3 weeks ago and demolishes him in every imaginable way and then everybody cheers because the guy they got demolished got some extra money. Seems crazy to do to college athletes.

[NerdiestKen]

I think I have another reason to digest on.

5. Running up the score
Blowing out other teams by running up the scores almost every Saturday when the college football games starts on any given time of day is another reason why I quit watching college football. The teams who are being played as favorites not even giving the opposing teams a chance to make it a close game. that, to me, is getting tiresome and boring at the same time. Close games I'm comfortable with, but running up the scores is something I want no more to do with.