Of the 134 programs in the highest level of college football, FBS, 72 have no way of competing for the championship.
This is utter nonsense and makes the sport a joke. Those complaining that the sport isn’t what it used to be are missing the whole point. There is no legitimate way of winning when the sport literally only allows 4 of the 9 conferences to truly compete. The “playoffs” literally leave 1 of the 12 spots open for 5 conferences while leaving 11 for the other 4.
So of course the schools are moving conferences and making it all about money. It’s the only tangible thing they have or have ever had. The sport has made clear that actually trying to find a legitimate process to ensure all conferences can compete is antithetical to their vision.
The sport does do not want to settle it on the field. They want to settle it on board rooms and in cash deposits.
It really isn’t a sport in any sense of the word because it isn’t about on-field competition.
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So what would you propose?
I think the actual problem is that college football was never meant to be about winning championship and has only recently become that way. Prior to the BCS which started in 1989 (over 100 years after CFB started) there was no national championship.
Also, I would like to point out that power conferences aren’t guaranteed 11 spots and that non power conferences can get more spots if they have multiple great teams, they just usually don’t. There are 7 “at large” bids to the playoffs, and the 5 conference champion slots are not guaranteed to include the P4. There was actually a very real possibility that if Army hadn’t lost to Navy and had played Notre Dame closer that the ACC wouldn’t have an auto bid because the Mountain West and American would have higher ranked conference champions.
This is not an unpopular opinion
Like it or not, there’s simply not enough talent for all teams to be competitive on the national level. Hell Half the teams in those power 4 conferences don’t stand a chance to be competitive at that level.
Including Tulane or Western Michigan in the playoff does nobody any good
Lol love when people are too stupid to realize they’re just regurgitating wildly popular opinions they saw elsewhere on this sub just to get attention 🤣
“Unpopular opinion….NCAAF could be managed better”
No shit ya doof 😂😂😂
It’s literally never been more possible for teams ti win. The thing stopping them is Akron won’t ever be as good as Ohio state
They have a harder path but by no means is it impossible. If a non Power-5 conference team goes undefeated they’ll be in the playoff. Almost every team that has a realistic shot of a national championship is in a P5 conference anyway since teams are able to move conferences easier now.
Well, the players getting paid forced schools to make it all about the money. Because now they have to compete with the guy next to them
We know
It made more sense when it was Division 1 and Division 1A.
The truth is the top 30 – 40 teams are significantly better than the rest.
You don’t really believe the group of 5 schools are on par with the power 4 right?
Truthfully, the SEC and the B1G along with ND and a handful of others from the Big 12 and ACC should form a new division outside of NCAA that formalizes the salary structure for athletes via a CBA and takes the student/athlete facade off of the game. For these top programs make the football team wholly owned separate entities of the university that employ athletes who may be students.
There is a simple solution that the sec and big ten will never go for: only conference champions advance to the playoffs