None of us would have survived the early 20th century as passionate and dedicated college football fans.
That era would have eaten us alive. But chances are we would have died from a necrotizing infection of sort before Saturdays killed us, because that was how humanity rolled back then. Modern sanitation, disinfection and big bad pharma hadn't yet hatched their respective schemes to get rich off of keeping us from getting sepsis whenever the wind blew.
If we had somehow beaten the odds and survived germ theory, college football would have definitely finished us off. We are living in the softest era on record - the Buckeyes just beat a fringe CFP team in its own house by 18 points and four days later the loudest discourse is still around rationalizing why that was a good thing, actually.