Are the “powers in charge” trying to kill college football?

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It was only a matter of time. When teams like Alabama started building massive football ops buildings, etc then it became an arms race to compete.

This is true

Money is doing what it does It spoils everything.

Crazy as it sounds there was once a time when money WASN'T the driving force in college ball.

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When teams like Alabama started building massive football ops buildings, etc then it became an arms race to compete.

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Meh. Almost 60 years ago, Alabama built Bryant Hall, It was probably the finest athletic dorm in the country and was state of the art at the time. Today, everyone wants a piece of that action.

One of the problems is that so many four-year schools now feel entitled to compete for a national championship in the highest division and major conference championships. In 1971, many of today's FBS teams were Division II. A few didn't even exist in 1971.

You can argue a select group before today has always tried to suppress CFB.

They are doing what business does - consolidating and normalizing things. It's a terrible practice and college football should never become a business in that way. To survive it must stay college football. Money and NIL can be handled but separating the teams from their schools, histories, rivalries and traditions will turn CFB into a subpar NFL.

The powers have always been mostly located with the Pac and Big10. They have always and will likely continue to push college football towards whatever format they feel benefits them the most.

They stopped allowing other teams to go to the Rose Bowl.

They refused to allow #1 and #2 play each other for DECADES because they were happy with the poll systems favoritism towards them, and thought the Rose Bowl gave them the advantage.

It wasn't until the rest of college football moved without them that they started to relax things a bit. #1 and #2 would meet up whenever possible as long as #1 and #2 weren't Pac or Big10 teams. It was only after doing that for nearly a decade that the Pac and Big10 were forced to do so because those matchups took away the chances for bias. That was the only reason we got the BCS finally.

It was again the Pac and Big10 that blocked the playoffs from happening, because again they felt the system benefited them. It wasn't until the SEC's surge and eventually 2011 when 2 SEC teams played in the BCS that the Pac and Big10 started to move towards a playoff. Not until the system no longer benefited them. People forget how people use to talk about 2 Big10 teams in that game...and none of them thought that was a problem.

So now here we are with the playoffs. And the Pac and Big10 have no advantages. So what better thing to do than to dilute the frick out of it, try to allow money to have more influence over talent.

The big difference is now the SEC has a guy in charge who's a fricking idiot. More worried about the money ESPN will give and appeasing ESPN than anything else. He will go down as the worse SEC commissioner in SEC history, being the biggest contributor to the conference falling apart in about 10 years.