Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic’s college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox.Breaking news from minutes before we sent this: The NFL won’t hold a supplemental draft this year, making Brendan Sorsby ineligible. He can enter the league through next year’s regular draft. There, that should be it on the whole Sorsby debacle for a while.Everlong: The good ol’ daysWhat was the best time in history to be a college football fan?That question doesn’t mean When was the most recent, especially great season? or What was the greatest season ever? Those answers are both obvious: All college football seasons are especially great, but 2007 was the greatest.The question is more like: When was the best time to be a fan of an average college football team? Sure, the answer to that (and any question like it, no matter the subject) is The Year When You Were Thirteen. And yes, humans have long been inclined to view days gone by as superior to the present, even when evidence says otherwise.Still, there are some specific eras worth considering.First, I think the only eligible years are after the early 1970s, when racial segregation finally ended, and 1984, when the NCAA no longer had sole control of television rights. (More on that below.) I do not imply those events were of equal historical importance.So here are four eras to consider.1. The early 2010s were excellent, and not just because college football’s variety of offensive tactics felt years ahead of the NFL’s at the time.