Haven’t attended a game in quite a few years as work and life have been hectic. A day attending the games are good fun with good friends but an extremely long day after a full work week. As noted you don’t get to see much around the country unless your crew has a tv. Couple that with diminishing expectations for your favorite team (my problem and opinion) it begins getting a bit monotonous.
As for following a college football season from the television...again monotonous. Too many games that mean little. Get burnt out about 3/4 through the season until the rivalry games then again with many of the bowl games. Boring watching teams not show up for bowl games they don’t care about or players sitting for the draft. The conferences need better balance against each other and also in their conference. The SEC really does have a monopoly on players, facilities, and fans. There are really only one or two ACC schools that without doing something extraordinary can challenge half their conference year in and out. Yes, sometimes win a game but on average no. Same for all of the other conferences. This has been before with other conferences and things adjusted over time but with many people moving towards following other sports it does feel this will not change anytime soon. When ND and ugag play at ND and close to half of the stadium is dwags that is telling. 1) There needs to be less teams in FBS and the out of conference games need to be selected more by the conferences or some group to promote interest in matchups instead of the schools deciding it all. Something similar to the ACC/Big thingy in basketball. 2) There should be no NCAA guidelines on academics, it should be left to the schools as only schools that take academics seriously are punished by these rules anyway. 3) NCAA penalties due to cheating should be decided and punishments handed out by a predetermined set of guidelines. Shouldn’t matter who you are or who you play for. 4). Bowl selection should be pre determined by conference rank and tie in or matchup based. The numbers a team draws or influence inside the conference should not be able to be a factor.