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Here's why you should get excited

During the past few weeks, I’ve done my best to provide our readers with a thorough preview of the upcoming college football season. Everything from big games to the coaching situation in South Bend to the Bowl Championship Series has been covered.
Closer to training camp and when news regarding lineups starts to circulate, we’ll look at rankings among college programs.

Now it’s time for some fun. College football season is, in my opinion, the greatest segment of the sporting calendar. The fall outdoors, coupled with the electric atmosphere, some of the most raucous masses of humanity, great rivalries and exceptional levels of both talent and coaching set this part of the year away from any other.


Here are 20 reasons to love the coming months, from many different angles:


1.     The return of a two-time national champion and Heisman winner (Tim             Tebow)

2.     Tailgating

3.     The end of an eight-monthlong anticipation

4.     The leaves changing color

5.     Not-so-blistering warmth

6.     ESPN’s College Gameday

7.     Watching a biased analyst in Lou Holtz and a narrow-minded one in Mark
        May perform the verbal version of Ultimate Fighting Championship

8.     Marching bands

9.     Bowl Championship Series talk

10.     “Rocky Top”

11.     Florida vs. Georgia, the former “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party”

12.     The end of baseball highlights

13.     Helmet stickers, as given by ESPN College Football anchors each
                     Saturday night

14.     A game for America in Army vs. Navy

15.     Watching the Brett Favre drama almost be over (well, hopefully)

16.     Seeing Joe Paterno still wander the Penn State sideline

17.     A silenced Lane Kiffin

18.     Lee Corso

19.     The revelation of Florida State’s newest attempt at bypassing academic 
          codes

20.     Finding out which lower-echelon Pacific-10 team causes Pete Carroll to
         lament about not qualifying for the BCS National Championship this time

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