Last Thursday, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk tweeted this during another miserably boring Thursday night NFL game:
Currently, college football is genuinely exciting far more often than pro football is. NFL needs to be concerned about that.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 15, 2017
It’s significant that the head of ProFootballTalk, a site that’s a repository for NFL news, was the one tweeting this opinion. But he’s correct. And in Indiana, with Purdue and IU off to exciting starts while the Colts linger towards another year in purgatory, the evidence is clear.
Both the Boilermakers and the Hoosiers faced some uncertainty as the year began, as both teams started with new head coaches.