The CFB playoff, once the go to 8, which will happen sooner rather than later, will be phenomenal.
Outside of Paterno, which is in it's own separate category (and could just as easily happen in Lexington, KY or Stoors, CT as it did in Happy Valley. Bernie Fine, anyone?), there's really not that much difference in the scandals in the two sports, it's just that the CFB ones are fresher.
What college basketball coach killed a student assistant, because football has one of those, also it turns out Fine was just a perv, a far cry from Penn State
