When your favorite college football team is having a great season, you start to become very interested in several other games each week even if you’ve never watched them play a game in your life before or don’t even know either team’s mascots.
That’s because when your team is good, the success of their season can be helped or hindered by all the other teams in several ways. For example, UK wouldn’t be ranked #8 in the AP poll right now if Baylor, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, and others hadn’t taken losses to lesser foes in the last three weeks.