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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1475608" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>I am a devout college football traditionalist who believes that the sport is meant to be focused on games played during the regular season at campus sites, and that the national championship ought to remain a sort of pseudo-mythical entity determined by polls that is just another prize in a sport where rivalries and conference championships still define what people are playing for.</p><p></p><p>That's a personal aesthetic preference of course, but I also truly believe that the more CFB becomes a glossy frictionless procession of major brands playing at neutral sites focused around a season-ending playoff for all the marbles, the more it becomes just a JV NFL, and it will go the way of every other minor league sport everywhere else in the world. College football is magical because it's weird and different and kinda dumb and always stubbornly what it is. That's a value people seem to be losing the ability to accurately calculate in our modern world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1475608, member: 746137"] I am a devout college football traditionalist who believes that the sport is meant to be focused on games played during the regular season at campus sites, and that the national championship ought to remain a sort of pseudo-mythical entity determined by polls that is just another prize in a sport where rivalries and conference championships still define what people are playing for. That's a personal aesthetic preference of course, but I also truly believe that the more CFB becomes a glossy frictionless procession of major brands playing at neutral sites focused around a season-ending playoff for all the marbles, the more it becomes just a JV NFL, and it will go the way of every other minor league sport everywhere else in the world. College football is magical because it's weird and different and kinda dumb and always stubbornly what it is. That's a value people seem to be losing the ability to accurately calculate in our modern world. [/QUOTE]
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