NIL has ruined college football.

The gap is huge and will likely see the same pool of 5/6 teams winning yearly but the new format does give the little guy a fighters chance.

IowaBear said:

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The gap is huge and will likely see the same pool of 5/6 teams winning yearly but the new format does give the little guy a fighters chance.

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The gap has always been huge in college football. But it was much wider before NIL and the transfer portal gave historically disadvantaged programs the opportunity to use every resource they have to build the best roster possible.

One of the teams that will play for the title lost to Northern Illinois and the other had two losses in league play and missed their conference championship game. Tell me when that ever happened in the BCS or four-team playoff era.

Blue bloods will always have a cleaner path to the playoff/a championship than non-blue bloods. But the access to both the playoff and talent is greater than it has ever been for those without elite resources. And NIL and the transfer portal are to thank for that. Along with an expanded playoff, they've democratized college football in a way it had never been in its entire history.

It's huge….. but not as long as they're playing their second best quarterback.

BUATX2000 said:

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NIL has ruined college football.

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Agree!! But actually this is where the leadership of Baylor wants us to be. Compete. Achieve mediocrity. Go to a ****ty bowl nobody cares about. Don't make waves. Happy to receive a participation trophy. We are Baylor.

bear2be2 said:

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IowaBear said:

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The gap is huge and will likely see the same pool of 5/6 teams winning yearly but the new format does give the little guy a fighters chance.

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The gap has always been huge in college football. But it was much wider before NIL and the transfer portal gave historically disadvantaged programs the opportunity to use every resource they have to build the best roster possible.

One of the teams that will play for the title lost to Northern Illinois and the other had two losses in league play and missed their conference championship game. Tell me when that ever happened in the BCS or four-team playoff era.

Blue bloods will always have a cleaner path to the playoff/a championship than non-blue bloods. But the access to both the playoff and talent is greater than it has ever been for those without elite resources. And NIL and the transfer portal are to thank for that. Along with an expanded playoff, they've democratized college football in a way it had never been in its entire history.

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What we saw before this format was the SEC invitational. 2 SEC teams and two others for the rest of us. The gap is not as big anymore.

I believe this format will break up the super conferences. Once a team like us starts breaking through, the UTs and Nebraskas are going to want back to smaller conferences with regional rivalries.

bear2be2 said:

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IowaBear said:

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The gap is huge and will likely see the same pool of 5/6 teams winning yearly but the new format does give the little guy a fighters chance.

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The gap has always been huge in college football. But it was much wider before NIL and the transfer portal gave historically disadvantaged programs the opportunity to use every resource they have to build the best roster possible.
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Truth

Think of the fact that Indiana….freaking Indiana was able to build a team that won 11 games and went to the playoff

Indiana football history makes Baylor look like Alabama

Indiana has a historical record of .422 and has 2 conference titles in their history. They went to the playoff the season after a bad year. I particularly like the chaos of the portal and NIL and expanded play off. Purdue for example can go from a literal Steelesque season to an 8 or 9 win season next season for example. If this existed in 02 we could have had a great season potentially the first post Steele year. A lot of quick rises and falls and rising quickly again seems to be common now.

PartyBear said:

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Indiana has a historical record of .422 and has 2 conference titles in their history. They went to the playoff the season after a bad year. I particularly like the chaos of the portal and NIL and expanded play off. Purdue for example can go from a literal Steelesque season to an 8 or 9 win season next season for example. If this existed in 02 we could have had a great season potentially the first post Steele year. A lot of quick rises and falls and rising quickly again seems to be common now.

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And SMU went to the playoff in its first season as a power conference program.

I honestly don't know how anyone can argue against a greater level of parity in college football.

No one is saying that NIL, the transfer portal and expanded playoff have made all teams equal. But those things have damn sure closed the gap between the haves and have nots.

You will never achieve equity in college football because the resource gap will always be enormous. But we are closer to achieving equality of opportunity in this sport than we have ever been. And that's all most fans want.

Notice how few fans are griping about the semifinal and championship matchups this year. All we've ever wanted is for the top teams in this sport to have to their way to those spots. Now that they are, it makes those games a lot more fun IMO, even when they involve teams/schools I don't particularly like. There's no longer any lingering doubt about the worthiness of the competitors and/or those left out.

Seeds 5,6,7,8 were the semifinal

RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

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BUATX2000 said:

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NIL has ruined college football.

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Agree!! But actually this is where the leadership of Baylor wants us to be. Compete. Achieve mediocrity. Go to a ****ty bowl nobody cares about. Don't make waves. Happy to receive a participation trophy. We are Baylor.

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can you spell stilupid? Just asking

Desperado718 said:

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RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

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BUATX2000 said:

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NIL has ruined college football.

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Agree!! But actually this is where the leadership of Baylor wants us to be. Compete. Achieve mediocrity. Go to a ****ty bowl nobody cares about. Don't make waves. Happy to receive a participation trophy. We are Baylor.

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can you spell stilupid? Just asking

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Can I spell "stilupid"? I can, but stilupid is not a word. Welcome to the new world of Big Boy Football. (For the record, we are not in the club.) We are Baylor.