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You spend most of the year craving college football season.
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And when it finally arrives, life is basically perfect.
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Saturday begins at 9 a.m., watching game-day predictions on West Coast games...
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...and it ends around midnight when the final night game wraps it.
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Either your S.O. begrudgingly accepts this arrangement...
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...or this is your first season as a couple, and it's taking some adjusting.
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You reconnect with your buds from college via group text.
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And you call people up you haven't spoken to in a minute, just so you can rag on them about that missed kick.
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If you could marry a YouTube Channel, it might be this one – because the two of you are perfect together.
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You don't know what's playing on the radio because you listen to sports podcasts 24/7.
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You have a complex hierarchy of college team allegiances.
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You make a yearly pilgrimage to your school's rivalry game.
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If you devoted the time and attention to work that you've devoted to your rankings spreadsheet, you'd probably be an actuary by now.
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You almost feel like your entire life has been a preface to this first year of the college playoffs.
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But you'd have it no other way because college football is part of you. It's your dynasty, it's your alma mater, and it's your family.
And of course: everything starts to look like a football.
