NCAA football is really good right now!

But OP, NIL and the Portal were going to cause even more separation from the top 10 to the rest of CFB……Interesting how for now that’s been the opposite. But we are still only in the infancy stages of NIL and are still having 6-7 year CFB players due to COVID.

This is the best CFB season in a decade as far as how many teams have a shot to win the CFP. Personally, I don’t see a clear #1. A case can be made for Michigan, Washington, OU, PSU, FSU from the unbeatens, then add in Texas, Oregon from the 1 loss teams. Personally, I think tOSU and UGA are the most flawed unbeaten teams.
 
I don’t think NIL screws over teams that can’t afford it. It screws over teams who could buy teams under the table because now the price tags are ridiculous. The poor teams weren’t gonna get those players that people pay millions for anyway. We’re gonna see decline in traditional powers.
 
We'll see where steady state falls out, but I'm not so convinced cfb is as good as OP says. UGA and tOSU have stepped in to the role of Bama and Clemson in the past. No real reason to think it's any different than that era.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
We'll see where steady state falls out, but I'm not so convinced cfb is as good as OP says. UGA and tOSU have stepped in to the role of Bama and Clemson in the past. No real reason to think it's any different than that era.
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It’s better in that you can not predict which conferences will represent in the Final Four. The SEC is down, the ACC, PAC 10, Big 10 is up.
 
Akinji07 said:
I don’t think NIL screws over teams that can’t afford it. It screws over teams who could buy teams under the table because now the price tags are ridiculous. The poor teams weren’t gonna get those players that people pay millions for anyway. We’re gonna see decline in traditional powers.
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uga is stockpiling 5-stars and is spending iirc $37 million Yearly on nil, they don’t seem to be declining
 
THWG247 said:
uga is stockpiling 5-stars and is spending iirc $37 million Yearly on nil, they don’t seem to be declining
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"UGA" is spending NIL? I thought that NIL came from companies that wanted to compensate players for lending their name and image to represent them.
 
It would take years for this effect to even out to a point of parity. We are seeing a preliminary rebalancing of talent due to the relaxed transfer rules. However, we don’t know what next year will bring. I’m pretty sure the powers that be won’t sit idle and let their advantage go away.

Considering the NIL turbocharger, I’d say we’re ultimately looking at players starting off at mid-level programs, establishing a name, and then selling to the highest bidder by their JR season.

I’d think Jamyr Gibbs might be the dominant pattern we see emerge from this.
 
In terms of recruiting, the web and technology has evened the playing field for schools other than blue bloods to recruit players over the last 15-20 years. In my opinion that has had the most effect. Players and their families can also market themselves in ways never thought possible even in the early days of the internet. What is really ramping it up is the transfer portal. Teams can instantly improve if they utilize it properly, or get worse. At first I thought it was the Wild West and I still do in terms of kids transferring whenever. The 'wherevers' though isn't what it seems in that players that enter the portal are NOT guarantied a new football home. I think the next big factor is TV. Now, tons of schools are on TV whereas prior to the late 90s, cable/Satellite had more limited options to for schools to be on TV and in turn to the fans and the high school football player's TV screens. Parity in recruiting and exposure for schools.

Still the blue bloods have the name and 'product' recognition and huge fan bases that most schools don't.
 
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