It’s been awhile since our last Sunday Surmising piece, and we are here to announce that we have not watched a single minute of live college football this season yet. We have five graduate degrees, so in addition to our undergraduate institution, we have too many alma maters to keep track of at times. Thus, we have options in terms of schools to follow, but the state of the sport itself just robs us of all the joy inside.

Yes, we’ve seen some highlights here and there, but this comes down to a two-fold choice for us: first, the sport is corrupt and has been for quite some time; second, it’s also become a sport where money rules the day, all too similarly to Major League Baseball; and third, if we’re going to watch professional football, we’re going to watch the NFL for legitimacy. This all sounds odd, but in the end, college football is dead to us.

The sport is headed to that Akufo League concept, where only the wealthiest schools will be competing for CFP titles, and only the alums/fans of those teams will be watching. Everyone else will find something better to do with their time—and their money. This is why we can’t have nice things in the USA: greed. No one ever seems to understand this, and the quick cash grabs that occur basically alienate the masses hard.

Even just glancing at some of the scores over this weekend, it’s clear to see the gaps between the haves and the have nots even within power conferences is widening. If the sport wants to move to an English soccer hierarchy, perhaps it’s time to do that. Ninety percent of the fans do not want to watch the same handful of schools compete every year for the ultimate prize; giving additional prizes to different levels of play is good.

Of course, the NCAA already has those tiers, although they’re more concrete than the promotion/relegation model that the English soccer uses. That model keeps local fans of smaller teams engaged and interactive with the sport through each season, every year. The NCAA could move to this idea itself, and then much of the sport could be re-invigorated for the majority of the fans. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time, right?

We never thought we’d buy into that promotion/relegation idea, as it has been floated here and there over the last few decades, but now the time has come that it makes sense—and cents, which is the clear motivator. A few more seasons of the same teams making the College Football Playoff and then raiding the smaller teams for new talent infusions every year, and we will find ourselves in a place no one wants to be.