re: What's the appeal of watching college football?

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I'm going to potentially waste my time and assume OP is a serious post.

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You, like us, are knee-deep in this right now, so you're already wasting your time.

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so popular in the south and not in the northeast? Like the biggest radio show here talks Yankees, Knicks, and NY Rangers hockey.
Rutgers and Syracuse never gets talked about, ever

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Tell Bucki this, he seems to think it was a big deal for the Big Ten to pick up the Northeast

Damn that was well said. Thanks

Sidestepping the snark of the other replies...

Being a native Texan and having lived there for most of my life, it starts VERY early. "Little League" football in Houston was more intensely followed than high school football here in Northern Minnesota. By the time you get to a decent high school in Texas, it can easily have nicer stadiums and more fans than smaller colleges here.

Hockey is the same way here. Outdoor pickup rinks all over town and kids play all winter. By the time they get to high school, playing in the state tournament gets your school to declare snow days no matter what so you can attend. Not at all unusual to walk by the trophy case of a fairly small school here and see a picture of a former student holding the Stanley Cup. Hockey games for UMD are not trivial things to go to here.

Heck, when we did our house-hunting trip here on a Saturday in the first week of October 2014, we went into BW3 to watch some football and review what we had seen. Not a single screen was showing football. They were showing PRE_SEASON hockey.

That being said, the NFL teams here in the north get surprisingly good support. Tailgating and such for their games is pretty impressive.

Go to a Penn State home game. Seems like there is plenty of interest in Pennsylvania for college football.

You have to grow up with it. Its called culture. College anything is never gonna be the biggest show in cities that had pro franchises before college ball got big in the 60's.

Georgia, Tennesee, Florida and Carolina are gonna have marginal support for their pro teams because they weren't there from the beginning. If you weren't raised with it you will never be dyed in the wool so to speak. Say you decided to become an Ohio St fan. You will never be as intense watching them play as you would be the New York Rangers.