3:20 the reason you don’t see passing backwards that much is because if they drop the ball it counts as a fumble so those plays usually only happen at the end of games when the team is losing
8:01 All English football fans remember Watford's post-penalty-save, counter attack goal against Leicester City. This moment is the college football equivalent. Returning a failed field goal attempt for a touchdown is possible, but extremely rare. To do it at the end of the game, scoring the winning points in the process, is unheard of. Background: the two schools are bitter intra-state rivals. Celtic vs Rangers, Tottenham vs Arsenal, Real Madrid vs Barcelona, Crips vs Bloods... It's like that. The University of Alabama is a perennial power and regularly competes for national championships. Auburn University (also located in the state of Alabama) is the abused stepdaughter. They are regularly quite good, but stand in Alabama's shadow. For Auburn to win that derby game, under those circumstances, is the stuff of state legend in Alabama. People will talk about that play for decades to come.
College football is so much better than the NFL imho the fans are more passionate, the plays are more spectacular, the experience is just better overall. The NFL is also younger than college football so there's more history in college football
College Football has better atmosphere than NFL games but the quality of play doesn’t match the NFL. The talent gap is so huge in CFB that the most important games of the year just ends up in blow outs. While in the NFL, the worst team can beat the best team any given Sunday
@@elijahfoster2 But they can’t do what NFL players do. They don’t have the skill set. Only the best of the best make it to the NFL. There are some great college players, but a lot of it is amateurish. It’s fun and entertaining. Many great college players are poor NFL players.
@@Kenyon712 There is so much parity in the NFL. Any team can beat any team because they are all professionals. The defense doesnt make mistanes and the offense doesnt make mistakes, for the most part. You don't get the blowouts of the upsets that you get in college, for better or worse.
Teams usually only pass it backwards if it’s their last play of the game because if they drop the ball the other team can fall on it and gain possession (which is what happens most the time) or can scoop up the ball and return it for a touchdown. It rarely works out for the offense so they only do it when they have no other options left
college football is very high level. These kids are scouted for years and offered scollerships for education which is expensive as hell in the us. Many trying to make themselves seen to go pro. I can't begin to explain how hard it is to play at that level. It's unlike any other. College stadiums are the biggest capacity places. It's hometown teams and an amazing experience. No lateral except for last chance loosing the game. You don't want to ever move back. Every inch forward matters.
Until recently College Football players didn't get paid, and weren't allowed to receive any compensation for their play other than their scholarship. Recently NIL has been added, which means that players can sell their name, image, and likeness. States started to pass NIL laws to allow college players to get paid. Also it's likely that the best paid government employee, in terms of salary, is a college football coach at a top state university.
Kevz the NFL does use a lot of lateral and backwards passes it’s just very risky because it counts as a fumble if the ball hits the turf. It’s usually done in dire situations and some of these situations happen more often in college.
As a former college football player its weird. You’re truly an athlete first and student second. You sometimes have to fight your coaches to get the education available, as a lot of schools you watched graduate less than half of their players. At large schools, mostly in the southern states, “free labor” has been the tradition but it’s all over the country now. College coaches make more than pro coaches and usually more than entire teaching staffs combined at these colleges. I can’t really watch it until they change the rules to compensate players. So they can at least pay for school somewhere else when their program is done chewing them up.
@@domo5353 No, that was simply a concession by the NCAA in a battle they’re losing. It was ridiculous that players couldn’t sell wristbands or memorabilia they owned. DeeStroying lost his scholarship because of his YT channel he made in middle school. Players lost scholarships or were suspended for accepting suits or plane tickets for funerals of family members. When people easily mistake college for pros and the athletes (who arent allowed to have part time jobs) have +36 hour work weeks for the program, it’s clear it’s a business. A multibillion dollar business of unpaid labor… in America…
So you have to be out of High School for 3 years before you go into the NFL. Division 1 college football is almost on the level of the NFL but there is tons of school spirit from students and alumni.
Overall NFL teams and the players are better than college guys, but due to it being college and not pros you can see a wider variety of styles a team can play and be successful with.
College football is better than the nfl it’s a louder environment and not every American state has an nfl team. I’m not in college yet too also it’s more entertaining there is rivalries bowl games in state rivalries like there is something different abt college and it’s hard to explain.
The difference between college and the nfl is like the difference between dogs and wolves. The nfl is faster, their smarter, stronger and are playing against the best of the best. Most college players that make it to the nfl Dnt have what it takes and are gone with in 3 to 4 yrs. Not to mention college offenses and defenses are super simple, they essentially have to learn how to play all over again. U can’t pull that Sh!t in the nfl
This video always makes me laugh because half of the Clemson plays have no business being in this video. Missed chip shot field goal and an anticlimactic 4th down stop? Definitely made by a Clemson fan
