I think a lot of it comes down to personal attatchment. A lot of college football fans have either attended or have close ties to people who have attended the college or university they support. Then add in college tickets from what I have seen, are generally cheaper. Its not surprising.
Pro football teams charge stupid amounts for tickets, and outside of the original group of teams, they rarely sell out.
Jacksonville is actually a good example, they for the first time in a while actually sold out a home game last week against Denver. Why? Tim Tebow. The guy played all of 2 snaps, got 2 yards rushing and was the biggest reason for the ticket sales, he's the home town boy, and a big reason florida was such a great university team and that loyalty brought in the fans.
The other thing is the atmosphere in the stadiums. Some places in college, (Alabama, LSU, Florida, Texas Ohio State) I would hate to have to play in as a visiting team, you cant hear a thing on the field. Some NFL stadiums can be sellouts and yet they are virtually silent, (New England, San Diego,  Cinnci and so on) It just seems the NFL wants to discourage atmosphere.

Glad they told me.  I never would have guessed.

Don't you just love "experts"!

Average Penn State game here today against Kent State. We're still pretty sloppy, so we have a bit of work to do before we hit the reasonable opponents in the Big-10. We play Temple next week (another yawner probably, although Temple DID beat UConn....)

Also went to Penn State's Women's Volleyball game today. THAT was great! They achieved a 109 game winning streak before unfortunately losing a couple weeks ago. Don't fear our football team, fear our Women's Volleyball team!

Well I think it was volleyball......I remember women...... 


It is a really cool experience though. It feels very personal because you can very easily get seats court-side if you want. We opted for just a couple rows up so we didn't get stepped on or have the ball spiked on us (it's CLOSE!). Truly an excellent sporting experience. And between the high probability of having a volleyball hit you in the face, and the fact that it's women's volleyball.....it kept us awake! 

OK, back on topic.... 

Well that's quite a way to preemptively sort out any jealousy issues.   

Oh, and um......the halftime show for the volleyball game was our female gymnastics team....no kidding. 

Overtime!

Notre Dame 28
Michigan State 28

Spread:  Michigan State by 3½

Final

Notre Dame 31
Michigan State 34

Halftime

#9 Iowa 7
#24 Arizona 27

The desert will kill you.

tcco94 wrote on Sep 19^th, 2010 at 12:23am:



Me too man.