Ratings appear to be down.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/10/college-football... /

I can't speak for all fans, but the whole circus involving all the pro and college leagues makes me think everything related to 2020 should have an asterisk next to it. The marathon of a baseball season was turned into a 10k. The suspended and bubbled NBA playoffs were well-done from a health standpoint but still bizarre and artificial from a fan standpoint. The NFL is twisting itself into knots to pull off a season, and games with no QBs and the Steelers/Ravens fiasco are now commonplace.

As to college, it feels even worse to me. The risks of travel and exposure for unpaid kids to feed content to the maw of television exposes everything bad we know about the NCAA. It's deepened my ambivalence -- I still watch some and care about the results so I'm not pretending to be on a higher moral plane, but I feel dirtier than usual doing so. Like many things in life (whether that's working from home, the death of brick and mortar retail, etc.) the pandemic is rapidly accelerating things that were already slowly happening. I think the coming years will see dramatic changes to college athletics.

One of the biggest issues I have is the travel. When we tell folks to stay at home and then transport large numbers of people hundreds of miles from hot spots to even hotter spots to simply play a game, it just doesn't make sense.

When I do watch a game though, the "fake" noise is enough to make you want to turn it off not to mention the commercials. There's a reason Netflix stock is up 53% for the year.

I look forward to the games. It makes you appreciate what you have. I don't really pay attention to the ranked teams or the playoffs anyway. Watching the Bobcats is one of the few times I turn on the TV. I liked Baseball season as well -- I think they did a good job handling the adversity. Do I wish it would've been perfect and 162 games long -- sure. The NFL seems poorly managed. They should've expanded the rosters to allow for some of the problems.

Watched a little of the Steelers game yesterday. I couldn’t take the fake fan noise and announcer babble. Turned the sound off.

I would say the 2020 football season is the stupidest, most worthless season football season in my lifetime! And, like most all of you, I love football just not this way...

A little football is better than no football. Be it the Bobcats or any other team.