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Give it a decade. 

By the time less than 10 years had gone by, A&M and Missouri "felt" like SEC games.  And kids now will never know anything different (to the extent that kids now will continue to care about cfb). 

For as much as I like to treat Arkansas and South Carolina like the red-headed stepchildren, the truth is I don't hardly ever remember they were anything else.  Another decade or so of A&M and I'll stop remembering they were anything else either. 

Won't be long before Longhorns are whining about Alabama bias with the Birmingham-based SEC front office and the rest of us become sensative.  

So, in 20 years the Old Guard might deign to recognize Texas?  I get gooseflesh just dreaming of that day.  I wait with 'bated breath.

I honestly don't think the current configuration of college football will be around long enough for that to happen.  College Football Armageddon is already underway, the next big shift will remove even more of the cultural aspects related to opponents' scheduling, and the last of the soul of the sport will wither away under the undying sun of billions of dollars.

I'd click on "like" for that, except that I hate what you posted. Especially since it's 99 and 44/100ths likely to be true.

Sometimes in history we see unexpected course corrections that most people didn't see coming. 

I'm generally pessimistic and highly cautious about the future, but I think there might be an unexpected course correction for cfb before it's completely dead.  Though I don't know what it might look like. 

It keeps being sacrificed little by little on the alter of bazillions of dollars, and that's why it keeps mutating into something we care less about.  Fine, we all know that.  But as people care less, the bazillions of dollars won't be there, and the market sometimes corrects in ways we don't predict.  It could be that before everything goes completely to hell, some aspects we like will be brought back in some capacity.  Often, those who profit want to make sure they keep profiting, and they should have plenty of signs and warning that the sport is dying. 

Not sure it will happen, but it's a possibility, I think.

Sometimes in history we see unexpected course corrections that most people didn't see coming. 

I'm generally pessimistic and highly cautious about the future, but I think there might be an unexpected course correction for cfb before it's completely dead.  Though I don't know what it might look like. 

It keeps being sacrificed little by little on the alter of bazillions of dollars, and that's why it keeps mutating into something we care less about.  Fine, we all know that.  But as people care less, the bazillions of dollars won't be there, and the market sometimes corrects in ways we don't predict.  It could be that before everything goes completely to hell, some aspects we like will be brought back in some capacity.  Often, those who profit want to make sure they keep profiting, and they should have plenty of signs and warning that the sport is dying. 

Not sure it will happen, but it's a possibility, I think.

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