Interesting column by Tom Dienhart of The Sporting
News:

The college basketball season is about to crown its
national champion at the Final Four in New Orleans.
It's a nice event. In fact, some would have you
believe that the NCAA Tournament--and college
basketball overall--is better than college football.
To that, I say "no way."

In what's becoming an annual rite, I once again
present to you a new and improved list of the 65
reasons (not necessarily in order) why college
football is the nation's best sport.

1) Dotting the "i" in the script Ohio.
2) Bevo and his strip of artificial turf.
3) Michigan's winged helmet.
4) Ralphie and her handlers.
5) Rose Bowl parade.
6) Beat Army! Beat Navy!
7) Vol Navy.
8) Regular season that matters.
9) Polls that matter.
10) Tailgating in the Grove at Ole Miss.
11) Heisman hype/debate.
12) Texas A&M's corps of cadets.
13) Homecoming.
14) Saturday night in Baton Rouge.
15) JoePa's glasses.
16) Bobby Bowden's shades.
17) Texas A&M Yell Leaders.
18) War Damn Eagle!
19) Roll Tide!
20) Nebraska's loyal, classy and smart fans.
21) Signing Day.
22) USC Song Leaders.
23) 100,000-seat stadiums.
24) Tony Roberts calling Fighting Irish football for
Westwood One Radio.
25) Michigan's "The Victors."
26) Little Brown Jug.
27) Paul Bunyan's Axe.
28) Floyd of Rosedale.
29) Third Saturday in October.
30) Saturday morning on a game day in early November
on a Big Ten campus.
31) Wisconsin's Fifth Quarter.
32) Cowbells at Mississippi State.
33) Singing "We are the Boys of Florida" before the
fourth quarter at the Swamp.
34) Tennessee's checkerboard end zones.
35) South Carolina entering Williams-Brice with
"2001--A Space Odyssey" blaring over the P.A.
36) Osceola's flaming spear plunging into the turf at
the Doak.
37) Georgia's hedges.
38) Michie Stadium.
39) Pregame flyovers.
40) Wooooooo Pig Sooie!
41) Police escorts for the ESPN Gameday talent.
42) Beano Cook's voice.
43) Backyard Brawl.
44) Shaking a pompon at an SEC game.
45) Texas A&M's 12th man.
46) Red River Shootout.
47) Looking at Mt. Rainer, the Olympic Mountain Range
and downtown Seattle from the north upper deck of
Husky Stadium.
48) South Carolina's Cockaboose Railroad.
49) Duck calls at Autzen Stadium.
50) Athletic quarterbacks under 6-feet tall who can't
throw a lick but can run like heck.
51) 500-yard passing and 300-yard rushing
performances.
52) Spring football.
53) Touchdown Jesus.
54) Best Damn Band in the Land playing "Hang on
Sloopy."
55) RVs at Penn State.
56) Miami's smoky/surreal Orange Bowl entrance.
57) Esso Club in Clemson.
58) Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field.
59) The Varsity in Columbus.
60) Toomer's Corner at Auburn.
61) Grave site, complete with scoreboard, for buried
Reveilles at Texas A&M.
62) USC's "Conquest."
63) Georgia's silver britches.
64) Big Game.
65) Running down the hill and touching Howard's Rock
at Clemson.



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