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It would be nice to get this transition phase over with so the rest of the college sports universe can get back to a conference alignment.
Meanwhile, the "portal" apparently has almost 3,000 players this year, and only about half of them are going in or out of Colorado.
With 16 schools, widely different schedules and this poorly-thought-out "playoff" structure and no more divisions, it's going to be better to finish third in a conference than second, which will often come down to tie-breakers.
Who's going to tell the top-five UCLA softball team they have to spend an April weekend flying for hours, then huddled in East Lansing, waiting out the freezing drizzle to get three run-rule mercy games out of the way?
With all that money and no realistic way to have a March-Madness style mass playoff, major college football is not in a good place right now. But the alternative would mean divorcing from television contracts approaching $100 million per year, per school. It's too bad the Buggles aren't around any more. We need a new song to describe this.
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