NFL doesn't compare to college ball

USA TODAY, October, 2008 by Paul Daugherty

I live in an NFL town and suddenly I'm a college football geek.

After 40 years of Any Given Sundays, I've been seduced by the Saturday night (and Thursday and Friday night) lights.

College vs. pro used to be full of scholarly argument. Now, it pretty much boils down to this:

Self-Important League of Rich Men?

Or Jacquizz Rodgers?

I'll be watching Oklahoma sooner than later. And Oregon State, which dumped then-No. 1 Southern California last Thursday night, thanks partly to 186 rushing yards from Rodgers, who's small enough to dance inside a glove box. I'll watch Ohio State play at Wisconsin, because the Buckeyes have unleashed freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor and now, impossibly, are back in the national title picture, at...