Its almost as bad as pro wrestling as far as end results being staged....they aren't necessarily scripted but they are driven by narratives. There has never been an actual national champion college football team because it is not possible to win such a thing on the field...it has always been a beauty contest where the prettiest get asked to the dance. There are too many teams vying for the same championship even though in reality in any given year there are only a couple actually vying for it.

When you remove passion from the game, which started in the 1970s with celebration and taunting penalties, removed tradition when you had Missouri and Arkansas in the SEC, allowed unfettered free agency, no cap on salaries and, in the ultimate insult, made the game unwatchable in person or on TV so you can sell more Dr. Pepper and Allstate Insurance, this is what you wind up with. It is going to get worse next season and going forward when you have teams from California and the Pacific Coast playing in the Big 10 and teams from the midwest (Texas and Oklahoma) playing in the SEC. The game has always been frickes as far as naming a champion is concerned...but now it is fricked nine ways from Sunday. I don't see TV viewership and in person attendance being sustainable going forward. I know it viewership is strong but how much longer is anyone going to watch 4 hours of commercials with 90 minutes of football played by mercanaries in what will still be, if not scripted, at least directed matches????