that's cool, but when you say, who cares? that's who cares. i'm aware of college sports because i'm a sports fan so i just get it through osmosis, but i don't have any real interest either. a lot of that is because we are from/live on the west coast where the sports landscape is dominated by the proffessional franchises. if you go to the rest of the united states, especially the midwest and south, then you will see the college landscape dominates, followed by high school and then proffessional.
most proffessional franchises wish they had the following of the major college programs. their fanbase is crazy.