For the next four months, millions of viewers will be tuned in to their TVs on Sunday afternoons trying to catch a glimpse of quality football.

Please, save your snacks and voices for Saturdays when all the real action takes place.

College football has been very enjoyable – largely in part of the collapse of one of the most storied programs in history with Michigan.

A team with high expectations and aspirations of playing in New Orleans for the national championship usually does not begin the season 0-2, but that is one of the incentives of tuning in to college football.

Appalachian State’s triumph over Michigan two weeks ago adds to the long list of huge upsets which includes possibly one of the biggest of all-time.

Who could forget where they were during the early hours of Jan. 2, 2007 when Boise State’s Ian Johnson crossed the goal line for the two-point conversion and a 43-42 win over highly-favored Oklahoma?

NFL matchups are pretty much predictable. It was obvious that Minnesota was going to beat the Falcons on Sunday.

But who would’ve thought that South Carolina would beat No. 11 Georgia on the road or even that Michigan would lose its second straight game at home?

That just goes to show that the competition in college football is more evenly balanced.

The separation between Division I-A and Division I-AA football programs is irrelevant.

Southern Illinois proved that last Saturday. SIU was not supposed to march into DeKalb and spoil the Huskies’ home opener, but that’s the way it is in the college football world.

The varying payrolls in professional football allow some teams to pursue the big-name players while others have to “settle” with cheaper, lesser talent.

But in the NCAA, coaches actually have to earn their players by way of recruitment. It doesn’t matter if a player is recruited at a major or mid-major conference, all of the athletes are on a more level playing field.

If you like to see competitive, emotionally-charged football, the place to be is in front of the 60-inch plasma screen on Saturdays.

College football is flat-out more exciting than the pros and the players always leave their hearts and souls on the field.

They play as if the game means more to them than it does to professionals; but wait, that’s another topic for another day.