College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Hubbard’s quip is a pointed analogy meant to puncture the idea that big-time college football is inherently “educational.” By comparing it to bullfighting’s relation to agriculture, he suggests that football may occur in an academic setting and draw on institutional resources, but it is not organically connected to the core purpose of education—much as bullfighting, despite involving an animal associated with farming, is spectacle rather than husbandry. The line also reflects early-20th-century anxieties about commercialization, violence, and misplaced priorities in American colleges, where athletics could eclipse scholarship and distort institutional values.