... pride to students and alumni. It provides athletes a chance at an education. Colleges make a lot of money from it. It gives us another day of football.

As a feeder system to the NFL, though, it is woefully inadequate.

The biggest problem with college football is that of scale: there are simply too many colleges for the available talent pool.

Certainly, this serves to bring in a larger audience for the sport (more colleges, more students, alums and promotion), but it does little for the quality of competition.

As a result of the talent disparity, those players who do possess NFL-calibre talent often physically outmatch their opposition.

Brute strength or superior speed is usually enough to succeed at the college lev...

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