degeneration of CFB into "BCS" followed the same path as degeneration of USA

for decades since its inception, CFB ran on a loose federalist structure, with separate conferences doing their own thing during the season and a "free market" of bowl games at the end of the season. there was an informal "poll" ranking system but there were frequent "shared" "national championships" when there was no clear best team, and it was no big deal
but then we got the centralized "BCS" system, first as a system to share and maximize $$$ between the big conferences, TV stations, and "bowl" organizations. then this later further degenerated into a "playoff" system in order to milk even more $$$ out of subsequent games. now there will be even more "playoff games" in the future, in order to do the same thing, and you can bet it will get worse and worse

the USA as a nation-state also started out as a very decentralized federalist political structure, only to slowly become consolidated over time under a corrupt and exploitative centralized machine, following the same pattern that happened in CFB. we now live in a political reality where states matter less and less compared to the federal government, in the same way that CFB conferences matter less and less compared to the centralized BCS system. conferences are even dissolving as teams rush to join the few remaining big conferences that have more leverage within the centralized BCS system. if states and parts of states/cities were allowed to do this in the US, they'd be doing the same thing too

it's a truly sad and sick mirroring of the degeneration of the US

Xoxo, hth