re: When did college football stop being fun?

The game itself is still as exciting as it used to be (except when your team is losing). However, the in person, at the stadium experience has gotten progressively worse.

As someone already posted, you have as much, if not more, piped in music than the band playing. You have idiots sitting around you that want to socialize more than they want to watch a game. Add to that TV contracts have screwed up game times. It sucks leaving home before 7 AM to get to a noon kickoff, or not getting home until after midnight when your team was chosen for the 7:30 ESPN slot.