Welcome to the third State of the Sport, where we will be taking a hard look at what is REALLY going on in various sports over the summer with a subject matter expert.

Today, Friend of the Show David Profusek will be dissecting the current State of College Football.

During the course of the last few seasons, College Football has undergone a dramatic change. Name, Image, Likeness, or NIL for short, has completely changed the game in college sports, but especially football. Now, players who would be sitting on the bench at a big name school have gone to smaller schools to play right away due to money. It has created a free-for-all in the college sports recruiting landscape that has caused head coaches like Lincoln Riley, Mario Cristobal and Brian Kelly to leave their roles at Oklahoma, Oregon and Notre Dame for USC, Miami FL and LSU, respectively.

Starting last season, the Big 10 expanded to include USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon while the SEC snatched Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, essentially eliminating the Pac-12 and creating two super conferences. Both conferences received new media deals, with the Big 10 securing contracts with FOX, CBS and NBC while the SEC went to ESPN/ABC. The super conferences also forced the expansion of the four-team College Football Playoff to 12 teams, which featured four first-round byes and first-round matchups at the higher seed’s building.

Changes in College Football continued to happen this offseason, as Bill Belichick joined the college ranks, along with former NFL General Manager Michael Lombardi, as they headed to Chapel Hill at North Carolina. The Belichick-Lombardi pairing sparked the beginning of the general manager-era in college football to help deal with NIL in this wild era of recruiting. Next to Deion Sanders at Colorado, there may not be a more anticipatory debut in the sport than Belichick at UNC.

College Football is expected to implement more changes in the next few seasons. More playoff teams, a salary cap for NIL and more conference realignment are all on the table.

And now ladies and gentleman, let me introduce to you, the man who is going to help the audience of Brandon’s World understand the State of College Football. He is a College Football expert. He is David Profesuk.

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