re: What is your first memory of college football?

I remember listening to the games on the radio.

Gusty Yearout and Gary Sanders were AU broadcast team.

Punt Bama Punt in 72 was radio only.

Any bowl game ws a pretty big deal and the big 4 were Orange, Sugar, Cotton, and Rose. Gator was the next best.
What later evolved to the Capitol 1 bowl was the Tangerine Bowl and Miami Ohio ws in it a bunch.

The big bowls were on network TV; the smaller bowls like the Tangerine, Liberty, Peach were on Mislou or Raycom.

I also remember Oklahoma and Nebraska destroying Bama and AU in bowl games after 1971 season.