The national guys laughed when talking about next year at fbs on ESPN right after the championship. They were like then next 1, 5, 10 years u might as well say basically like four teams in Alabama, Ohio state, Clemson, and Georgia. To win a title less than ten schools have a chance.
If it flies it dies.
Long for the days of freezing in the south stands of Dacotah Field.
This is something that most folks refuse to take into consideration when discussing college football. At the end of the day, there are only a handful of teams that actually have a shot at winning the title. Sure, every so often they'll let Cincinnati or TCU or some other outsider into the party just to give the illusion of parity. And this year TCU did all they could to make it interesting with their sympathy invite, up until the ball was kicked in the natty and everyone realized they didnt belong. I mean even when you look at what Bama did to KSU, the Big 12 champ...the was a good old fashioned ass whooping.
I do believe that eventually the "Collectives" at these big P5 schools are going to start to dwindle when the donors start to realize that the money they're forking over to get some recruit or transfer portal kid isnt going to fix the fact that they arent Alabama or Georgia.
This is not 'Nam. This is Bisonville. There are rules here.
Agree 100%. It probably will tamp down when the collectives realize that paying $10M for a quarterback recruit who's a bust is not a very good way to spend money...
Then again, it may truly become an arms race where people feel the need to do it to avoid becoming the next KU, Rutgers, Arizona football program. That's where it gets out of control