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I will. You pretend that what is good for television is magically good for spots. Your entire point is that programs that aren't as well funded should simply not get the same chances at more well funded teams. You've been very vocal that if there is a good chance for a blowout, the game should not even be played, in favor of a closer game between teams that did not earn it on the field. That is pro-television, not pro-sports.

And I've made zero comments about suggesting what's good for networks is good for college football.  You're inventing shit.  What's good for college football is actual competition, not pretending TCU is a deserving playoff team.  Beat Kansas State, bro!

I want the best 2 deserving teams to play for the championship.  I want every game among the top teams to count.  Why did they bother playing the Big 12 CG in 2022?!?  The ramifications of the outcome were fuck-all.
Answer that.

They aren't well funded because the rules don't make that an incentive. It's not like Alabama is magically richer than other programs. They were really good and got a big fan base and lots of support. It's the same with every other program -FSU and PSU are big based on having the same great coach for thirty years. There aren't many reasons that other programs can't become good and big, other than the rules don't provide any way for small programs to become big programs and in fact actively block it.

To put it a different way - there is no reason based in sports or competitiveness that puts Rutgers in the Big Ten over Cincinnati. Those decisions are based in money and contracts and largely driven now by television networks.

Alabama-LSU suffered the same problem and largely ended the BCS. Alabama still won a championship in the playoff era despite not even qualifying for their championship game. How is this a new problem? Oklahoma got destroyed in their championship game and still made the BC game. It's not a new problem.

It's exhausting for you because you have no point. It didn't take "decades" for FSU to work it's way up. They played in the Orange Bowl in 1980, just four years after Bowden started coaching. My point is that without artificial barriers in place, FSU quickly worked their way to the top of college football after years of being an also-ran, a team that by your logic shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the top of college football. You keep pretending that college football is a one off every year, when it absolutely isn't. Good programs build over time, and a good system in place should reward good programs. I don't know why anyone would be satisfied with television conference deals determining things over results on the field, but here we are.