I’ve become disillusioned with college ball. Generally I only follow one team, but I pay attention to other teams in that it affects my team. I’ve long thought there was corruption in officiating, but could never prove it. I always just thought, “it isn’t corruption, it’s just your personal bias for your team.” But as time goes by I’m more convinced it isn’t bias or incompetence, because I’m seeing some teams more affected by it than others. But this year is really what has killed it for me, because on top of the corrupt officiating, the people in charge of seeding the playoffs dropped any pretense of fairness and clearly just put the teams that they think are the money makers in the playoffs. I mean, they’ve always seeded it in a way to try and control who plays in the championship, but this year was just over the top.

On top of all that, college ball causes me too much stress. Your team has to play a perfect season in order to have a hope at a decent post season, and even then you have to be in the favor of the corrupt. I only watched about a quarter of our games this year, and didn’t watch the bowl game. Instead I’ve become more interested in minor league hockey. They play so many games that you can lose a bunch without it ruining the season, and it’s funnier to watch.