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(01-02-2021 12:58 PM)anti-zip Wrote:  Yes. The spirit of competition is gone from the top levels of college football. There's a handful of teams that get all the elite recruits (and develop them well) so they have very little serious competition until the CFP. Makes for a pretty boring season with 1 or 2 noteworthy games each year.

It's pretty tough to argue with the recruits wanting to go to those schools though. College is about best positioning yourself for the work force and playing on the best teams with the best coaches does that for you. Just ask Trey Sermon. So I'm not really sure how it can be fixed. Expanding the playoffs would potentially make it more entertaining. But I fear upsets would still be rare and it would still end up being the same teams alive at the end.

I finally came to that realization a few years ago when I looked at a program like Penn State that we were playing. They wanted to be on the level with Ohio State who was also trying to be on the level with Bama and Clemson. We’re miles from Penn State who is far from Ohio State and on and on. The gap between haves and have nots has been blown so wide open it’s not even funny; forget P5 and G5, there’s P5 schools that will never be relevant let alone G5.