re: Is College football broken?

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It’ll make some feel more relevant but if anything you’ve given the big dogs more room for a mulligan. It’ll be the same teams there in the end most years

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Yeah exactly. UGA Bama and Ohio state can lose 2 games now and are probably all getting in. The committee isn’t going to leave out those loaded blue blood teams at 2 losses.

In the past, the sport was pretty national.

All of these teams won national titles from the 60s-90s

USC
Nebraska
Arkansas
Colorado
Texas
Miami
0hio State
Penn State
Georgia Tech
Notre Dame
Washington
Michigan
Alabama
Fla State
Florida
Tennessee
Pittsburgh
BYU
Clemson
Oklahoma

Etc, etc, etc...

Now, there's no way that will ever happen again at this current rate because all that matters now is if you're campus is located within 150 miles of hundreds of blue chip recruiting hotbeds AND your university puts every ounce of its funding snd energy into the football program AND you have an elite of elite recruiter at head coach AND a booster base that will pony up millions to pay recruits/transfers every year.

That essentially leaves 4-5 programs every year, snd most of them are all going to be located either in Columbus Ohio or a handful of schools in the South.

Thats not a recipe for bringing in a bigger audience.


The sport will not die, but it will continue to alienate huge swaths of the CFB landscape.

The only way to remedy this would be to institute a full blown NFL draft/FA model... And that's not happening ever because the blubloods will potentially lose their grip on the sport.

It's not a good outlook, but we will see...

Reducing scholarships imo is the easiest way at leveling the playing field

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NFL draft/FA model

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I mean, it really doesn’t matter if the blue bloods want it or not. You’re not going to have a college football draft where you tell kids where they’re going to school.

What happens is people freak out and seek ways to create parity….which the big schools use to their advantage to create less parity.

Here's the thing: some of the blue bloods (Michigan, ND, Penn State, USC, etc) are having a really hard time competing for national championships now.

65-70 scholarship players with 10-15 PWOs is more than enough bodies to get through a college season. These teams don’t need 86 guys on scholarship.

It’s sort of like how the portal was thought to benefit the little guys and prevent roster stockpiling….but ultimately it’s just been better for the blue bloods. Process the recruits you missed on, fill out the roster with transfers looking to jump ship

there will be more parity now thanks to NIL. give it a year or two and you'll see the teams that are dropping bags (tennessee, miami, etc) nowadays start showing up in the playoffs

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Is College football broken?

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Yeah.

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Also with online gambling...Why yall bitching??? It's called easy fricking money.

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Umm, those online gambling companies don't pay out.

Buddy won $12,000 on a 10 game parlay. Never saw a cent.