The era of exciting football is over. No more days of small conference teams upsetting the big boys. The days of Temple beating VT, Navy beating South Carolina, Appalachian State shocking the world at Michigan and a few dozen others - used to be 3-4 of these a year, are over. Now there are no more experienced teams around that have developed their talent to pull the upset. As soon a good players are developed, they are bought out by the big money teams. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The NCAA has killed the goose that laid the golden egg. The big schools wanted to monopolize the great talent and now they have done it. Now it is a very boring landscape. The excitement throughout the land that used to be at every football playing school has been doused. Money has killed it.

I'm with on this. The haves and have not gap is so wide now with NIL will be nearly impossible.
Another thing I fear is a scandal with someone paying NIL to rig games. I have seen several head scratching plays, calls and penalties already this season with high level CFP teams that makes me wonder if that's not already the case.
We may find out one day it's all just championship wrestling.

Yep. The mafioso has already appeared and got its hands in it. Rigging games. Gambling now is really gambling.

If you want to add fuel to the fire, check out the P4 basketball standings. ALL BUT ONE of P4 teams + The Big East are .500 or better. At most, there are one or two teams per conference at at.500.
The ACC has three undefeated teams, 5 one loss teams and 4 more two loss teams.


In the Big 12, all 17 teams are 5-2 or better. Four are undefeated.

The Big East has four one loss teams and two teams at the bottom at .500.

The Big 10 has SEVEN undefeated teams.

In the SEC, fifteen of the sixteen teams are 5-2 or better, with Mississippi State at 3-4.

Yosefus wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 29, 2025 9:04 pm

I'm with on this. The haves and have not gap is so wide now with NIL will be nearly impossible.
Another thing I fear is a scandal with someone paying NIL to rig games. I have seen several head scratching plays, calls and penalties already this season with high level CFP teams that makes me wonder if that's not already the case.
We may find out one day it's all just championship wrestling.

Just because the stadiums, broadcasts, and majority of TV ads are branded by Fanduel and other sportsbooks doesnt mean....

appstatealum wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 29, 2025 9:52 pm

Yosefus wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 29, 2025 9:04 pm

I'm with on this. The haves and have not gap is so wide now with NIL will be nearly impossible.
Another thing I fear is a scandal with someone paying NIL to rig games. I have seen several head scratching plays, calls and penalties already this season with high level CFP teams that makes me wonder if that's not already the case.
We may find out one day it's all just championship wrestling.

Just because the stadiums, broadcasts, and majority of TV ads are branded by Fanduel and other sportsbooks doesnt mean....

Oh, Uh, Yeah. Ahem, excuse me......

The gambling stuff is legit worrying. It’s already been shown it’s affecting MLB and NBA.
But to the original point, there weren’t a lot of crazy upsets this year, but last season started with NIU upsetting Notre Dame. ODU beat VA Tech this year.
And how are you not excited by Vanderbilt and Indiana? NIL may have expanded the gap between G5 and P4, but it’s leveled things between the P4.