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Originally Posted by Atocep
Competitive balance was damaged by continuing to try to find a way to crown the perfect national champion in the sport that traditionally didn't put as much weight into a national championship as other sports. Competitive balance will likely be killed by the NIL.
I don't give a shit about MAC schools to be honest, but the P5 schools had been able to compete with one another assuming the athletic department didn't have their heads up their asses. Take WVU, the school I'm a fan of for instance. In the BCS era they played in 4 BCS bowls and came up 1 game short of playing for a national title. Under the old bowl system they played for an outright national title in '88 and a share of one in '92. Those accomplishments are impossible to replicate under the current system.
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There has never been competitive balance in college football. The same schools dominating the sport today have dominated the sport for the past 100 years.
Alabama has more SEC titles than Florida, Auburn, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Missouri, Vanderbilt, A&M, Mississippi State, Arkansas, and South Carolina have combined. Heck, Georgia Tech has more SEC titles than half the conference and they haven't played in it in 70 years.
If people truly cared about competitive balance, they would have been screaming about the disparity in coaching salaries, facilities, TV contracts, and so on. They don't because this isn't about competitive balance.