Handwriting on the wall starting this year. Of the top eight teams there has been a combined 6 losses, only one of those losses was to a team not in the top 8 (Texas' loss to Oklahoma, who is at 12). The rich will continue to get richer with NIL money and the poaching of quality players off "lesser" teams. We will all get our "great match-ups" with the 12 team playoff system but the cost will be you will have the same damn teams playing the same damn games over and over again-mark my words. It will get old, fast. Can't say how many times I have heard bemoaning of second match-ups in conference championship games after a great initial game earlier in the season. Well, how about a third match-up in at playoff time? It's gonna happen. You can pretty much pencil in Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas every year as long as the coaching situation is stable. The next tier of Oregon, Clemson, Oklahoma, Penn St., FSU and possibly USC will fill out 5/6 each year. Yawn. They will give the undefeated "other guys" a bone every once in a while, and round out with the best of the rest and whoever survives the Big 12 battles. Programs like North Carolina, UCLA, Boise, and yes, even Texas A&M, Tennessee and Ole Miss are done. They will regress to support feeders of the real BIG 10 listed above. It will be really bad for the sport. The fan bases that had that special team every ten years that maybe kind of possibly could do something magical and give hope are going to turn off. In my mind, everything that is so wonderful about college football is in deep peril from this notion that we have to have "the best match-ups" and the "most deserving teams." It has, and always will be BS. At some point the wins matter. If the SEC schools are in over Texas and FSU the whole thing is a farce. Maybe it already is.