I certainly don’t want to speak for everybody but, at least for me, the success, tactics, and personality of college football teams was permanently codified in my brain from ages 14-21 and it doesn’t feel right - in my mind anyway - if certain teams aren’t the way that they were during that impressionable time of my college football consumption career.
For example: Miami is always “THE U” with the fog machine and recruiting “the state of Miami”; Georgia runs the ball and always comes up short; Oklahoma has warp speed offenses that lose games late; Michigan and Notre Dame do well with boring teams that always lose the second they come up against a team that “doesn’t respect the institution of the student athlete”; USC dominates while playing an antiquated style of football and recruiting a California all-star team from the high school ranks; Oregon is faster than everybody and is seemingly one step ahead on offensive systems and player development.