Ball game Quote by Hari Sreenivasan

Years ago, the NFL influenced what happened in college. It's the other way around now.

— Troy Aikman

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called…

— John Thorn

“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.”

— Robert M. Hutchins

Michael Sorrell had no experience running a college. He had been a lawyer and White House special assistant, but he knew Paul Quinn couldn't…

— Hari Sreenivasan

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do…

— Anonymous

The NFL, it's a business and it's different than college.

— Mac Jones

They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.

— Brad Carter

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

— Elbert Hubbard

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if…

— H. L. Mencken

As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a…

— Frank Deford

I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of…

— Keith Jackson

I'm a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It's been a more important, more substantial part of American life.

— Oliver Luck