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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 3595431, member: 381"]
An old, old discussion here... but the reason the northeast doesn’t embrace college football as much as other parts of the country can be traced back to a specific era. When the NFL was taking off, college football in other parts of the country were organized and offered a clear, competitive product and the excitement of conference rivalries. . Meanwhile in the northeast you had a bunch of teams all doing their own thing as independents, stubbornly refusing to band together. (I’m looking at you, PSU.)  As someone said above, couple that with the fact that the NFL offered a big time product in their own back yard - which you didn’t have in most of the south a southwest - and the northeast just fell far behind. It took the BE to try and get in on the game, but we were late, and it’s an up hill battle to compete for share of mind. It’s not impossible. There’s nothing intrinsic to people in the northeast that they won’t support CFB. They just didn’t grow up with it unless it’s your alma mater or the school is in your city. The exception being PSU who have the benefit of the statewide following. From day 1 we have needed an identity for northeast football. We still do. Being in the ACC doesn’t really solve that problem.
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