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Are you seriously saying that major college football is anything more than entertainment? College sports began as exercise programs, so are you saying that because major cfb is linked to colleges that it’s primarily an exercise program for students?

It has been the majority of my life. It has never in my life been about "the most entertaining end of the season", or "Games that people want to see" or "making the post season matter for everyone".

It's always been about 1 thing. Determining who was the best team in the country, as a sport does.

Many years there were multiple teams that had legitimate claims to being that team. Many years, they didn't meet up and play. It sucked.

Finally in the late 80s we started actively getting #1 and #2 to play in the bowl games. Those years were fricking great, but it was only some years.

Then we got the bowl coalition, then alliance and it happened more often. fricking awesome.

Then comes the BCS, omg finally - every damn year.

Then once every 5-10 years there is an anomaly. A 3rd team with a legitimate claim. So we expand to 4, so we can include that team. The 4th place team has never deserved it, but whatever it's worth the trade off.

Now it's gone off the fricking rails. Completely leaving things that make it a sport behind, no longer caring about who is the best team. It's all about what people watch. That's the only thing that matters.

Can't even really find 4 teams that deserve to be there every year? No problem, just muddy the shite up by adding in 8 more teams who don't fricking belong. Brilliant!

This post was edited on 12/8/22 at 5:06 pm