College Football Full of Disappointments

Please forgive me for a little cynicism here...but college football, as in all other sports, produces an unpleasant side effect among its fans.  After all, since it's no fun watching a game without caring who wins, it stands to reason that people eventually start rooting for their favorite teams.  The biggest prize of all at the end of the season is the national championship, so disappointment #1 occurs usually very early on when one's team has already suffered a couple of losses and that lofty goal seems to have passed by.  For them, the next goal is for their team to win their conference's division...which they probably won't, resulting in  disappointment #2.  Then their hopes fall back on at least mustering up a non-losing record, which will give them a post-season bowl bid.  And then maybe they don't get that far, either: disappointment #3.  But for the teams that at least get a bowl bid, half of them will lose that game, ending their season on a disappointing (#4) note.  For the teams that are fortunate and skillful enough to win a conference division title, half of them will spend the off-season ruminating about losing the championship game (disappointment #5).  Then, for the fans of the conference champions, those who are excluded from the four-team national championship playoff will be disappointed (#6).  Of the four remaining teams, three will lose (#7,8, and 9) leaving only one team each year that the fans can fully celebrate without disappointment.  But no, although they may temporarily feel great, even these are now burdened with unrealistically high expectations for their team in the future...anything short of a national championship will now feel something like a failed season, a disappointment for years to come...