They should go just ahead and make Div 1 football teams semi-pro, sponsored by the universities and funded by the NFL, and get rid of the ridiculous "student-athlete" facade.
And no one will care, or even remember who won the playoff championship two weeks later.
Absolutely right in you post. There are more functionally illiterate kids playing in college today than ever before. Hell some players even come out and say tha they didn’’t come to said school to go to some stupid classes, but only to play football. It would be a joke, if this wasn’t so pathetic.