Investment
I'm watching the College Football Playoff semifinal and I just realized why the twelve-team format is so much more fun.I watch a ton of college football (ask C). What I don't usually do, though, is watch full games. I've seen all twelve teams in the playoff during the regular season, but only watched a full game for a few. For the rest, I'm only vaguely familiar.
By the time the semifinals of the playoffs roll around, though, I've seen all these teams for at least one full game because I saw them in the previous rounds. That's different from other years, when I'd come in cold on some teams in the semifinal.
Because I've seen everyone already, I'm more invested. I have more likes and dislikes. I have theories about what will happen, and reasons why I want it to go one way or the other.
In other words, I'm invested, and anything is more fun when you're invested. Well, unless it's one of your kids playing sports, when that investment can become a mild form of torture.
Otherwise, though, it's great. And it's great here.
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