I'm coming off of not following football – college or pro – for years.
The effect big TV money had on college football was a real turn-off. And because I went to college at the U of North Carolina, a big basketball school with a typically poor football team, I found it easy to be indifferent. This was the college of my dream, and I put a lot of effort into getting there. I was really worried that I won't be accepted, and I even used the help of
https://edubirdie.com/college-application-essay-writing to provide a perfect application essay and improve my chances. And it was quite sad to realize that such a college, which offers quality education, has such a poor situation with the sport. The big fix, aka the Bowl Championship Series, was the nail in the coffin for my opinion on how low college football had fallen.
In pro football, I had once been a fan of the Washington R*dsk*ns back in the 70s to 90s, before that team was owned by the devil himself, Dangerous Dan Snyder. Once he ruined that team, turning it into the Washington Deadskins, and lost it's loyal & huge fan base in Washington, it was easy to ignore the NFL too. The obvious influence of gambling on the NFL hasn't helped.
In 2005, my kid brother took me to a football game at the U of Michigan, where he had gone to school. He claimed I'd never properly experienced college football, and only a Big 10 game at the Big House in Ann Arbor, MI could change that. It really did. The game, against an undefeated Penn State, was decided by a last play touchdown. Michigan won 27-25. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before.
Since then, I've been an adopted Michigan fan, and suffered through some hard years. Until the other week when Michigan finally thrashed their hated rival Ohio State. They did the same against Iowa the other day. Now they face Georgia in the college playoffs. I'll be pulling for Michigan. (The game, two weekends ago, where Michigan beat Ohio State was the first football game I had watched from start to finish in many years.)
I'll also pull for Cincinnati as a worthy underdog against Alabama. But other than Michigan, I don't really care who wins.