Tennessee does it better than anyone. While there are myriad reasons college football inspires fanaticism among its followers, one stands above the rest.
It's the anticipation.
Today's on-demand technology has rendered that state of human emotion known as anticipation practically extinct. A decreasingly few of you probably actually remember that back in the day your TV received programming from a grand total of three channels. Back then, programming was fixed in time and therefore scarce. Frosty the Snowman was shown once in December, and if you missed it, well, you just missed it.
Enter the modern era of VCRs, DVDs, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and thousands of channels of syndicated programming and on-demand content.