You raise good points, but money seems to throw away rational reasoning. Such is the world today. Have to wonder if someone proposes an alternative that could be a relegation type system to provide for a steady stream of second tier beat ups (that do get higher comp) for the top tier teams?I agree but the money there will have to be shared. Tight ends and kickers will want a piece of the action. And then it will become minor league football--which might doom it. People will tune in in Alabama and Ohio. In states or regions of states left out in the cold they will not. I feel like the glue that holds college football together is the university angle but also the fact that everyone is a part of it because universities all over the country are included. Most of them have no chance at a national championship but they can dream and maybe the local team can make it to a big bowl game. When it becomes a two-tiered system of 45 teams at the top and everyone else--left to fight over the crumbs and guatanteed to never win anything of consequence--everyone else's fans will tune out. Killing the goose that laid the golden egg.