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28th Aug 2014

Ahead of the Croke Park Classic here are the very best bits of the 2013 College Football season

This should whet your appetite for Saturday at Jones' Road.

JOE

This should whet your appetite for Saturday at Jones’ Road.

If you are Sunday night/Monday night NFL junkies you really should make time on Saturdays to get your fix from College Football.

There is usually a feast of games on ESPN/BT every Saturday of the season and it often serves up even more exciting fare than the big brother NFL.

With players being younger and more inexperienced you get more mistakes, more dramatic plays and coaches tend to try all sorts of mad ‘trickeration’ than you will see in 10 years of the NFL.

And, of course, Penn State and University of Central Florida will face each other at Croke Park on Saturday, so we thought we’d show just what sort of thrills College Football has to offer.

As well as all the above, the sport is also, of course, the breeding ground for future stars, and this highlight reel features lots of Johnny ‘Football’ Manziel (then Texas A & M, now Cleveland Browns) .

Stuffed with brilliant catches (watch for University of Central Florida’s JJ Warton’s incredible grab at 2.38), impressive hurdling, big hits and all the nerve-shredding drama that is pretty standard in College Football.

Fingers crossed for some of this on Saturday.