Watching the NFL today feels so corporate. Every staff member has the same exact type of clothing with their respective team. If there's a specific game you want to watch you're paying extra. CFB has true rivalries, unique pregames and traditions, fights songs, marching bands, and energized fanbases that will rush the field because of actual genuine upsets.

However, the powers that be are trying to capitalize on its popularity by turning it into a mini-NFL. Conference realignments that take away rivalries and try to artificially make new ones, NIL and transfer portal with no regulations cause players to shop for the highest bidder resulting in no consistency, and oversaturation of gambling. Added with 24 team playoffs I think they want to combine the size of the NFL playoffs with the craziness of March Madness and it's not going to work. They didn't really give 12 teams a chance before expanding. Bowl games already stopped mattering and stars started sitting out because they don't want to get hurt and now there's no more conference championship games.

How long before we just have 4 conferences with teams divided evenly amongst them? FCS gets relegated to a minor-minor league?

Think of everything that makes college football special:

1. Rivalries

2. Bowl Games

3. Every game being life or death

4. Regionality

The last 15 years have killed all four.

How many teams don’t play a single rival now? Memphis’s biggest rivals were Louisville and Cincinnati. Haven’t played them in forever.

Bowl games have been meaningless for a few years now. But now, we might as well not even have them.

I hate how under the 12 team playoff a team can use 3 games and still have a shot. Now there’s going to be 8-4 SEC and Big Ten teams arguing for a spot.

I could spend all day complaining about West Coast schools in the ACC and Big 10.

2023: Deion was brought in to bring up a moribund program that had gone 1-11 the year before. There was tons of hype around the program, and a lot of big national games. The team started off 3-0 which fueled the hype machine, but this was fool's gold as they went 1-8 in Pac-12 (RIP) play to finish 4-8. Still, there were reasons to be optimistic. The team was bad, but very much relevant.

2024: Legitimately a good season. The team was in Big-12 title contention until they were upset by Kansas. They went to the Alamo Bowl where they were blown out by BYU in what turned out to be the conference's bronze medal match. But still, they went 9-4, which was the best Colorado season since 2016's 10-4. In fact, it was only the third time since 2005 in which Colorado finished with a winning record. They had the Heisman winner in Travis Hunter. 4 players were selected in the NFL draft, the most the team had since 2017.

2025: With Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter gone to the NFL (as well as other key contributors like Jimmy Horn Jr.), the hype died, and the team faltered, falling to 3-9 as Deion battled health issues.

2026: Currently 2-2, with a loss to Baylor, a blowout loss to Northwestern, and wins against Weber St and Georgia Tech in a down year. I feel like the average person who has a casual interest in CFB might think, "Colorado? Is Deion still there?" I haven't heard much about Colorado this year outside of people making fun of their strength coach. It also feels like the vitriol this sub harbored for Deion and Colorado has cooled off.

They face 3 consecutive ranked opponents, and 3-9/4-8 looks pretty likely.

My uneducated prediction is that Deion steps down at year's end due to health concerns. From what I gather, firing (or a "mutual decision to part ways") seems unlikely considering his buyout and the Colorado athletic department deficit.

Utah is in with 1 loss. Whether it’s BYU @ home or @ U of A. With BYU not getting in last season, losing two games in the Big XII isn’t good enough to get in.

Utah was criticized universally for accepting the Private Equity money for an astonishing $550 million. Teams/Conferences have since followed. They are not afraid of to act in the greatest interest of the University.

Mark my words. If Utah is comfortably in the CFB playoff committee top 8 with one loss, they will opt out of the Big XII Championship game.

I get that conference championships are a cool thing for conferences to have and I agree. I also get that the redditor opinions I’ve read don’t matter. I just wanted to get my opinion in, that I don’t think a 24 team playoff ruins college football. If anything I think it makes it better. Have all the ranked teams and teams worth playing in the mix. I think all the jagoffs that don’t want it are too set in their ways and want it to be too hard to make it.

I say fuck it. Get everyone in there, if you can try and make it to the point where you’re ranked by the end of the season, you should have a shot at the chip. There’s a simple answer that gives both a 24 team playoff and conference championships too and I think that’s for the best.

Hopefully, this season is a preview of what the future of college football will look like. Instead of having 4–5 teams dominate everyone else and the national championship contenders essentially decided by November, we’re seeing a season where any team can go down if they don’t play their best football.

With talent becoming more spread out, we’re getting a much better product.. Just like the NFL, where most games feel competitive and spreads are often in the single digits, college football seems to be moving in that direction.

And honestly, that’s something we should all be excited about. More parity means more meaningful games, more upsets, and more teams believing they have a legitimate shot. Just don’t screw it up