What’s Better About College Football Since NIL

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- October 15, 2026 at 5:36 pm #21897
  PasadenaTrojan
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  Conference realignment? Lame
  
  Conference rivalries? Many gone
  
  Player loyalty? Gone
  
  fan support of players there every year? Quickly eroding
  
  athletic department budgets and other sports? Many faltering
  
  Bowl games and season has been killed by playoffs
  
  what’s actually BETTER now?
  
  being serious
  
  Besides players checking accounts
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- October 15, 2026 at 6:04 pm #21903
  
  the909
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  Nothing. It’s out of control and poorly thought out, if at all.
- October 15, 2026 at 6:11 pm #21904
  
  SC Gator
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  Bowl games were killed long before there was NIL. First the BCS made the rest of the bowls irrelevant and eventually made 3 of the 4 BCS bowls irrelevant. From the time I started college the goal of the season was to get to the Rose Bowl. As a student or a season-ticket holder I could always get tickets, and I attended every SC Rose Bowl from Purdue in ’67 to Texas in ’06. And then I took a deliberate pass on the ’07 and ’08 games, because by then the Rose Bowl wasn’t the goal, the BCS Championship Game was the goal, and the Rose Bowl was a consolation prize.
  
  Then the player boycotts made the second-tier bowl games a mockery. For this I blame Christian McCaffrey.
  
  I don’t mind paying the players, and I don’t blame NIL for the lack of player loyalty. For that I blame the portal.
  
  I don’t blame NIL for the conference consolidation and realignment, although I don’t really know who or what to blame for that. I liked college football way better when it was a regional game and the bowl games showcased the best of the regions playing against one another. And you played everyone in your conference every year and still had room for 2 or 3 attractive non-conference games. And if you ended up with a split national championship, big deal.
- October 15, 2026 at 6:28 pm #21906
  
  the909
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  The old bowl set up was a major reason why college was so different from the nfl, I liked it
  - October 15, 2026 at 7:16 pm #21919
    
    BobLinMN-3
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    I have very fond memories of walking from campus to the Coloseum with my brothre listening to the Michagan-Ohio State game to see which team would face the winner of the game we were attending (USC vs ucla). So much excitement and so much on the line in one day! When victory was certain, we would chant, “Hey, the Rose Bowl!”. Followed by, “You’ll watch us on TV”.
  - October 15, 2026 at 11:28 pm #21939
    
    mandb
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    I agree. You don’t win conference championships every year and the invite to one of the major bowls, but we went to a few of those ‘minor’ bowls because we liked the atmosphere of a bowl game, a reason/destination to visit a different area and the hosting cities had different activities and other things to do unique to the area. But now, we will just stay at home and watch them on the tv.
- October 15, 2026 at 6:46 pm #21911
  
  Daystalker
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  Coaching staffs (here’s looking at you, Alabama Jones) and boosters no longer have to hide paying players and dodge Paul Dee and his regulator posse.
  - October 15, 2026 at 7:11 pm #21918
    
    BobLinMN-3
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    But we didn’t have the spectacle/disgrace of Oregon paying a starting QB $2mil to leave their school and come play backup for them.
- October 15, 2026 at 7:08 pm #21914
  
  Fraud
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  Crowning a National Champion via playoffs is better. The rest sucks ass. USC Football is at the top of the ass sucking heap.
  - October 15, 2026 at 7:16 pm #21920
    
    BobLinMN-3
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    As you are on this board!
- October 15, 2026 at 9:33 pm #21937
  
  San Clemente
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  The much better solution to the two SEC teams every year was very simple. And I posted it at the time.
  
  The top 8 teams including major conference championships go to the four major bowls. If ND didn’t like it they could join a conference.
  
  The winner of those four bowls play each other in the playoffs with the championship game to be played the Saturday the week before the super bowl.
  
  Would have kept traditions. Would have kept conference championship games.
  
  Would always provide a legit national champion.
  
  We could have all kept pretending this isn’t just a money grubby television show with starring mercenaries. sc
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