Sonny wrote:You can debate whether or not the BCS works or not. But one thing is clear - Interest in the College Football regular season has never been higher. When Washington/Hawaii at 1am in the morning (East Coast time) is the last game of the season and it still has significant meaning to fans from around the country.... you have to acknowledge that the system is creating interest & attracting more eyeballs.
Interest in college football may be related to a change in our social structure, not the BCS.
Researchers have cited that the fact people move around much more than they did in the past, and that has caused a change in who/what we identify ourselves with.
For example (the one I remember), people use to grow up in an area, work for the local industry, marry, and die in that area. So they were buried in a local cemetery. They identified with the area.
Now that many are journeymen - leaving the state for college, moving multiple times for career opportunities, marrying spouses with equally diverse backgrounds - many do not identify with an area of the country. Instead many identify more with their educational institutions. As a result, many schools are selling spots in a mausoleum where alumni's remains may be placed along with a plaque.
The point being, interest may be on the rise because more of us continue our relation to our educational backgrounds long after we leave, so we are inherently interested in college sports more than in the past. Just a theory though.
