Top Teams, Traditions & Game-Day TV Tips
Ladies, no need to worry about losing contact with your man now that college football season has arrived in America.
PubClub.com’s Ask The Man has the solution with this simple but insightful guide to college football, how to watch it and be intelligent about it, and also a few tips on what to do when showing up to his house while his game is on TV.
Southern women, of course, already know all these things because they watch and love college football as much as their men.
College Football Basics For Women
• Why Every Game Counts. One of the taglines on one of the endless ESPN promos is “Every Game Counts.” And it’s true. At least to a point. Here’s why:
– In college football, the final teams are determined not by standings, as is the case in the NFL, but by a ranking system. Therefore, it’s not only important that your man’s school wins, but that teams ranked around his team lose.
That’s why the savvy college football fan cheers heavily during games not involving his or her team. The lone exception to this rule is if his team later plays a highly-ranked team; you want them undefeated when your team plays them so you look better to those running the polls.
• Only One Loss In College Football. Because of the ranking system and the fact there are so many teams that can be at the top of those rankings, a team can really only lose one game a year to be considered for the playoff. And it must come at the right time of the year (usually early, in September) and to the “right team,” that being another highly-ranked team. Generally, if a team loses two games then its championship hopes are finished and all that’s left to root for is beating the rivals.
• The College Football Playoff. Four teams make the college football playoff, a system determined by the rankings released by a committee of “experts.” For reasons no one can really comprehend, the first two playoff games are played on new Year’s Eve.
• The top teams for 2016 are: Alabama, Clemson, Florida State LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, with a “second-tier” of teams being Tennessee, Stanford, Notre Dams and, perhaps Oklahoma. Except whenever the Sooners are ranked high in the preseason – and this year they are #3 – they tend to stumble like a freshman leaving his first fraternity party.
• A few of other teams to watch – and possibly scare your boyfriend is his team is playing them – are USC, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Michigan State, USC and TCU.
College Football Traditions & Team Tendencies
• The best – and most passionate – college football is played in the South.
• Every fan outside of the SEC and the South hates the SEC and the South. (Jealousy; and don’t go there please!)
• Michigan, ranked #7 pre-season, doesn’t play any good teams until it faces Michigan State. On Halloween.
• The Pac-12 has the highest-scoring, most exciting, it’s-never-over-until-it’s-over games. Especially those involving the Arizona schools.
• UCLA should change its nickname to the Trampolines. That’s because they are up one week and down the next.
• Everybody outside of Notre Dame hates Notre Dame. Why? Because this school manages to spring to life just when you thought it was dead, and those running the polls are always way too giddy about the Irish.
• Purdue has an incredible ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
• College football has rivalries like no other sport. Know them! The big ones are: Alabama-Auburn, Ohio State-Michigan, OU-Texas, Georgia-Florida and USC-UCLA.
College Football TV Watching Tips For Women
• Bring beer
• Ask you man if he has a school shirt you can wear to watch during the game (this will send him into an excited frenzy; he rush into his room, pull out every favorite team shirt he’s ever owned and will LOVE showing them off to you).
• Your man will yell at the referees even at blatant calls his team deserves. Don’t say anything or, if he turns to you looking for support, just agree with him.
• Understand the system. See above under College Football Basics.
• If your man’s team is losing, bring him a beer and give him the PubClub cheer: “Win Or Lose, We Booze!”
Good luck ladies and enjoy college football 2016!
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