IMO it would be wise for the "G5" schools and maybe some of the P4" schools to make a statement that if these elite schools want to put the screws to the rest of us maybe we will refuse to play them. The thought of say 30 super schools playing an "NFL" type schedule may just scare their greedy lil hearts to reconsider things.
Clearly the vision of the focus of evil in the sports world, ESPN, and the college football system as we know it, are at odds with one another.
ESPN, indeed, wats a AAA NFL. The sloughing off of excess teams in the P4 is the next thing to come. Leaving out other sports, does the SEC really need Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, or Texas A&M? Does the Big 10, really need Indiana, Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, or Northwestern? Does the ACC really have anything to offer to the pot past Clemson, Florida State, and Miami? Does the Big (sic) 12 have anything at the top level at all?
Now, you can argue TV stuff, like "Illinois = Chicago" or "Rutgers = NYC" or "Maryland = the DMV", but really? A team being in a big place and losing every year is that big of a deal?
The ESPN vision is 20-30 teams, all playing each other. And no one else. BIG!!!!!!!!!! games, every week.
The college football system that has been in place for a long time has been something like this, for someone like, say, Michigan State or Virginia Tech, Kentucky or North Carolina, or Oregon State: Play a G5, play a couple of lesser teams from other P4s, go 500 in conference, go to some medium bowl. Go on the circuit as being "Gator Bowl Champions" .
Rather many will be relegated out of whatever ESPN calls its AAA NFL. And not matter. And, even if I'm wrong and they are kept nominally in, iKentucky, or WVU, or Virginia, or Houston, or Indiana, or you name it, we can list them all for the next hour, they will N E V E R make the playoffs.
And in the ESPN world, its one winner and 130 losers. Is some Iowa fan really going to care that they finished, again, 5th in a division and got to play Pitt in a half empty pro stadium in December.
ESPN = evil.