Stop Crying About College Football

Summer, 2026

The players are paid, the conferences make no geographic sense anymore, and rosters flip like Airbnb rentals. Somehow, the sport has never been more watchable.

THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE you’ve been told college football is dead, or at least on its way. Maybe it was a friend, a die-hard consumer of the sport, or maybe it was one of many, many talking heads decrying the death of tradition.

The reality is that the sport you remember was n...