Despite all of the things that are fundamentally wrong with college football, in the eyes of a few, there is one thing that is right with college football that trumps all of the other things that are wrong about it: It makes a heck of a lot of money.
The sad fact is that it is all about money. No matter how much we cry, nothing will change. The only way change will happen is if the right people are convinced that their wallets will be padded and lined.
5. Older discontinued rivalries
Many football fans long for the rivalries of the past. Some examples of these rivalries include Florida and Miami, Clemson and Georgia, USF and UCF, and Pitt and Penn State, among many others. These rivalries have been sacrificed due to conference restructuring and other reasons.
6. Conference Championship Game?
The rules are different for every conference. The number of teams in every conference may vary, and some teams play in conference championships, while others do not. Can we get some consistency please?
7. Out of Conference (OOC) scheduling: I wish I could see my team play (fill in the blank)
SEC teams play against patsies for their OOC games, and they always play them at home and get the opportunity to pad their stats. Meanwhile, my team goes out on the road and plays tough OOC teams that they can't pad their stats against.
Big problems deserve big answers, and that is why the answer to this problem has to be very radical—but in order to get to our solution, we must first understand our problem. All of these problems stem from one main problem: the money.
Money is why we have the BCS problem, and the BCS problem is further magnified by conference disparity, which, when paired with a flawed system like the BCS, formed the lethal combination that brought about the infamous SEC chant.
No one has proposed a feasible solution to these problems because they do not address the root of the problem. The only problem that people have attempted to address is the BCS problem, but in order to address the BCS problem we have to address the money problem.
So our dilemma is that we need to either find a new, fair system that can make more money than the BCS, and thus line the pockets of the right people who have the ability to make things happen, or we can find a way to tweak the current system so that games are decided on the field.
I think that a little bit of both can happen. You can tweak the current system and make the system a whole lot fairer while simultaneously bringing in more money during the process.
When it comes to making money in college football, there is no better place to look than the SEC. The way to make money in college football is to do things the way that the SEC does it.
I know this is going to sound really cliché, but I am going to say it anyway: What college football needs is an SEC makeover.
What I mean is that college football should be restructured into four super conferences. The winners of these super-conferences would then enter a four-team playoff at the end of the year, which would determine the national champion.
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